“That’s something I learned from a professor of mine at the Jewish Theological Seminary, back in the 1950s. He was a famous talmudist who didn’t think much of our Jewish knowledge. Once he asked during a class, ‘Who can tell me where Conservative rabbis are mentioned in the Haggadah?’ No one answered and he said: ‘It’s in the verse Vayehi sham le-goy gadol, atsum va-rav. Vayehi sham le-goy gadol—and he became a great goy. Atsum—a mighty great goy. Va-rav—and a rabbi.”
(from a Conservative site.)
That's a joke worthy of the satmar rav. I guess their jokes can be כשר.
ReplyDeleteWell, the joke is clearly from one of the non-Conservative gedolim that taught in JTS so its not a Conservative joke
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