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Rabbi Avi Weiss is a man who loves Jews. I mean he really, really loves Jews. He is TEH JEW LOVE MAN, in fact.
This past Friday night, R' Weiss led davening,* and during the part where the congregation recites together "You shall love the Lord your GOD with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might,"** he scooped up a child who had wandered up onto the bima,*** and stood there leading davening with one hand and cuddling this random child with the other. Cos R' Weiss loves Jews. I think that is what it is for him to love God.
And you'd think that would be horribly cheesy, wouldn't you? For the prayer leader to cuddle a small child whilst leading this prayer about love? But it isn't when it's R' Weiss. That is one of the things which makes him special.
* services. At the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, his home patch.
** in Hebrew, though.
*** pulpit, more or less
This past Friday night, R' Weiss led davening,* and during the part where the congregation recites together "You shall love the Lord your GOD with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might,"** he scooped up a child who had wandered up onto the bima,*** and stood there leading davening with one hand and cuddling this random child with the other. Cos R' Weiss loves Jews. I think that is what it is for him to love God.
And you'd think that would be horribly cheesy, wouldn't you? For the prayer leader to cuddle a small child whilst leading this prayer about love? But it isn't when it's R' Weiss. That is one of the things which makes him special.
* services. At the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, his home patch.
** in Hebrew, though.
*** pulpit, more or less