Following are some of my notes on life as the Chief Rabbi of Uruguay. Follow the adventure!
The Beginning:
Personal Announcement: New Job, New Career, New Country
May 2, 2013 – Mid-air Rendezvous
May 7, 2013 – Loving Montevideo!
May 10, 2013 – Rules of the Game
Getting to Know the Community:
May 12, 2013 – The Seduction of Insanity
May 14, 2013 – Ingredients of Trust
May 23, 2013 – Curious and Carefree
Working Hard:
May 29, 2013 – Rapid-Fire Existential Roller Coaster
Exciting New Lectures Series in Montevideo
June 4, 2103 – Electronic Limbs
June 5, 2013 – The 26.5 million Euro Suárez Difference
June 9, 2013 – Tahara: Dignity for a Corpse
Getting Into Things:
June 23, 2013 – One man’s garbage – another man’s treasure
July 4, 2013 – The Joy of Engineerhood
July 7, 2013 – The British do it Better
July 8, 2013 – Anatomy of an Asado
The Move:
July 16, 2013 [Tisha (9) B’Av 5773] – Packing for Exile
August 8, 2013 – Short Interim Report
The Holidays:
August 28, 2013 – ‘Tis the Season to be Jolly…
September 2, 2013 – Life of the Party
September 8, 2013 – Flag of Prayer and Dangerous Choirs
September 12, 2013 – Legal Marijuana: Ideal Yom Kippur Topic
September 15, 2013 – Spotlight Yom Kippur
September 18, 2013 – Masters of Sukka Improvisation
September 22, 2013 – Non-drug-induced 3-day Festival Inspiration
Back to Rabbinic Routine:
September 29, 2013 – The Mysterious Monsieur Chouchani (Shoshani)
October 16, 2013 – Wildly Different Men of the Spirit (R’ Shmuel Eliyahu vs. Danny Sanderson)
October 28, 2013 – The Last Spitz B on Earth
October 30, 2013 – My 29er and Spontaneous Itinerant Marketplaces
November 3, 2013 – A Visit by Elijah?
Communal Dilemmas:
November 11, 2013 – Headline Judaism and Historic Revisionism
November 17, 2013 – Boos, Childhood Trauma and Crowd Participation
November 28, 2013 – Cultivating Religious Leadership
December 25, 2013 – Fireworks War Zone
Planning and Thinking:
December 30, 2013 – Rabbinate Year-End Report
December 31, 2013 – Keeper of the Scrolls – Get-hunter
Essay: The Purpose of Assimilation
January 13, 2014 – Return of the Exilarch, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Out-of-the-box:
Press Release: Uruguay Institutes Rabbinic Pre-nuptial Agreement
Interview about Uruguay’s introduction of obligatory rabbinic pre-nuptial agreements
Art Essay 1: The Oracle and The Rabbi
Art Essay 2: Humble, Tenacious, Versatile Acacia
Return of the Muse:
September 10, 2014 – The Whimper and The Bang
September 16, 2014 – Chivitos for Dinner (with apologies to my vegetarian friends…)
September 29, 2014 – Divine Shofar-Blasts
October 5, 2014 – Yom Kippur Redux
Celebrate, not Celibate:
October 8, 2014 – Asado Supreme
October 15, 2014 – Existential Paradox by Design as Impetus in Spiritual Mechanics
October 23, 2014 – Female Pride
October 25, 2014 – Community Power
Returning:
January 12, 2015 – Homeless Parking Gangsters
January 21, 2015 – Nicknames and Lazy Efficiency
January 29, 2015 – Update and Clarification of Spitz Departure
February 1, 2015 – Love of Biscocho
February 13, 2015 – The Induction of Rabbi Epstein
March 10, 2015 – The Elderly are the Future
Exodus and Exile:
April 1, 2015 – Casablanca Stopover
April 6, 2015 – Pesach Preparation, Experience, Quality
April 13, 2015 – Well-traveled Pesach Food
April 15, 2015 – Uruguayan Kippah
Getting Interesting…:
April 21, 2015 – Trunko, the Super-Dog
April 24, 2015 – Weapon of Mass Education
