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This year marks my 50th year as a rabbi. If you are not a paleontologist or an astronomer, 50 years is a long time and my colleagues from my ordination class have all pitched in to share their memories and lessons from a half a century of working in the fields of the Lord.

The danger here is obvious.

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I don’t want to trivialize a lifetime in the rabbinate with a few banal and trivial observations and yet 50 years is time enough to have learned things that only clergy (of any faith) can learn. Here are some of those things that have floated to the top of my soul.

The only way to be a good rabbi is to have a deep belief in God.

I remember one of our God Squad shows where my dear friend Father Tom Hartman (may his memory be for a blessing) and I interviewed some rabbinical students from my seminary. Tommy asked them if they believed in God which I thought to be a weird question to ask them considering their choice of career, but their answers were deep