"Why We Looked Away" I do not believe that the task of a Rabbi is to preserve the Torah. I do not think that our primary responsibility is to guard it or protect it from contamination. The Torah does not need to be saved from history, from politics, from moral conflict, or from the messiness of human life. If anything, the Torah exists precisely to be brought into that mess. There is the mitzvah of returning a lost object (Deut. 22:1). But this is not a commandment limited to
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