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Gabriel Slamovits

Gabriel Slamovits
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Gabriel Slamovits, J.D., is Community Scholar and co-founder of The Downtown Minyan.

Abraham’s “Diminished” Weeping: An Orthographic Note Inspired by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Zt”l

There’s a miniature kaf at the beginning of the parashah. As Gabriel Slamovits explains, what the diminished letter says about how Abraham mourned for Sarah fits well with a prominent teaching of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, zt”l.