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Rabbi Akiva Weisinger

20 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read

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Netanel gets at what I've been trying to say the past couple of days. You don't need leadership programs. And you should distrust anyone who wants to mold you. You're not a pile of clay. You're a person.

https://twitter.com/wordpaley/status/1450643672446423043

docs.google.com/document/d/12t…
Fun fact! I wrote this for a RIETS sermon class and the instructor yelled at me.

Idk guys maybe we don't need "leaders", maybe we should try to build a Judaism in which we interact as equals, with authority grounded in text, not personality.

I reject being called a leader. I am a facilitator. Point guard, not a quarterback. I don't lead, I distribute opportunities for others to do amazing things.

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If you don't fit in their boxes, that's not your problem, that's theirs. Cut them out of the equation. Bring your Torah directly to the people who need it.

Because the people who need your Torah, also don't feel served by those institutions. Correctly. They're looking for Torah, and they don't even know they're looking for your Torah.

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They're birchot shevach. The s"a leaves them out when listing who can't say them. What's even the hava amina guys

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You also do for hagomel. And yet the woman in question says it despite not counting for the minyan.

Like, look at this. A guy is like, hey, it seems from the s"a that a woman can say Sheva brachot. Why do we not allow that? And he gets no answer beyond "mesorah". theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/top…

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