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Joseph Meir Levin
1870/72–1926
Not much is known about Joseph Meir Levin, a rabbi who officiated at Orthodox congregations in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Jersey City, New Jersey, and for his final decades, in Cincinnati. A member of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of America, he worked diligently to build stronger relationships amongst Orthodox, Reform, and non-Jews in Cincinnati. Nonetheless, he deplored what he regarded as the deterioration of Judaism in the New World and expressed a deep longing for the heartfelt and deep Judaism of Eastern Europe.
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Sermon: On David and Jeroboam
To understand this parable [of David and Jeroboam in b. Sanhedrin 102], we must say that Rabba bar bar Ḥana also describes people of two different kinds, whose deeds and way of life are different from…