GREAT READS → SHUL WITH A VIEW Issue 809 · May 6, 2020

A Walk in the Park

"Larry, what awaits you is a perpetual and enduring afterlife in the Central Park of the Next World"

A Walk in the Park

 

When I am not being a rabbi in Passaic, I moonlight teaching at Lander College for Women in New York.

The school is just a few quick blocks from the famous Central Park, which attracts over 42 million visitors annually. The park also affords me a quiet and peaceful respite from the sometimes grueling, frenetic life of a shul rabbi.

It was near the Sheep Meadow (there are no sheep in the Sheep Meadow) when I heard his call.

“Shalom!”

Standing in front of me was a man in a white sweatshirt emblazoned with the words, “I love New York.”

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