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TZAV 5784 A Shulchan Aruch Jew Rabbi Andrew Shaw Chief Executive, Mizrachi UK
On Wednesday afternoon the Jewish people lost a great leader. He was not a Rabbi. He didn’t head up any Jewish Organisation. Yet in his life he demonstrated a sense of Kiddush Hashem that few in history could emulate. What made Senator Joseph Lieberman a great Jewish leader? It was simply that when Vice President Al Gore chose him to be his running mate in the 2000 US election, Senator Lieberman became the first shomer Shabbat Jew to appear on a presidential ticket from a major party. His observance of Shabbat was legendary. If he had to participate in a vote at the senate, he would walk over an hour back to his home in DC afterwards. He writes in his book about Shabbat: “It’s Friday night, raining, one of those torrential downpours that we get in Washington, D.C., and I am walking from the Capitol to my home in Georgetown, getting absolutely soaked. A https://mailchi.mp/aa8f98a46e0c/dvar-torah-for-parshat-pekudei-17967069
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