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Letter to the senior rabbi who “came out” (Gay DC rabbi Steinlauf left wife, kids)
Times of Israel ^ | October 8, 2014 | David Benkof

Posted on 10/08/2014 10:58:19 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o

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I feel very sad and disappointed about such news. Altrhough I am not Jewish, I do look to Jewish religious leadership for an example of an upright life. Walking out on your wife and kids is apparently OK if you do it for another man. I suppose it would be a stunner and a scandal if he went after another woman?

I ache for his three kids.

1 posted on 10/08/2014 10:58:19 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o

He should have never married. However, once you marry, it is til death do you never part.


2 posted on 10/08/2014 11:03:15 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Here...let me editorialize this:

“Hello fellow Jews. Please allow me to continue to guide and lead you as your spiritual leader even though I do not give one little dang about what Almighty G-d says about a choice I am making and even though I am willfully destroying my G-d sanctioned family structure for it, because I am 100% selfish and have given into my lust full buying the lie that my lust and or my passions equals my nature as G-d intended. Please look away from all that and FOLLOW ME!!!”


3 posted on 10/08/2014 11:03:26 AM PDT by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Former Rabbi (teacher),

Your choice of abomination destroys all trust and good will you once had. Begone, we desire neither your counsel nor your countenance.


4 posted on 10/08/2014 11:09:06 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I guess he doesn’t believe the story of Lot which is Gods Word. Hope they don’t keep him around. Their main way to reproduce by messing with other children.


5 posted on 10/08/2014 11:18:33 AM PDT by Ramonne
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To: Mrs. Don-o

How can he be a “moral and spiritual leader” of others when he himself is immoral and carnal?


6 posted on 10/08/2014 11:19:04 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Rabbi Steinlauf and is soon-to-be-ex-wife, who is also a rabbi,

Much of the problem is in that line.

7 posted on 10/08/2014 11:28:14 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Mrs. Don-o

So a man who had NO interests in women managed to successfully persuade her that he really loved her and was interested in her AND sexually performed with her on numerous occasions.

But we are told that they find vaginas to be repugnant.

And his new “love” apparently means more to him than kids did.


8 posted on 10/08/2014 11:35:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“Your letter cites the great Talmudic personality Abaye saying a scholar whose inside does not match his outside is an abomination.”

And the Torah tells us that homosexual acts are abomination as well. The proper decision, knowing both those facts, is for a rabbi who is compelled to those acts to stop being a rabbi, since he is not fit for the job.


9 posted on 10/08/2014 11:41:03 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Just abominable what this man has done to his wife and children, and no doubt secondary victims of his selfishness. I am glad however, for this letter. The writer addresses it exactly as a true Jew should.


10 posted on 10/08/2014 11:44:53 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Mrs. Don-o
He sure puts the bi in Rabbi
11 posted on 10/08/2014 11:45:03 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: arthurus

What, she made him gay by becoming a rabbi?


12 posted on 10/08/2014 11:51:31 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: tflabo

Is it wrong that that made me laugh?

:D

O2


13 posted on 10/08/2014 11:52:05 AM PDT by omegatoo (You know you'll get your money's worth...become a monthly donor!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

One might not be surprised by this kind of “me, me, me ... my wife, family, and the Torah be damned” behavior if this was the rabbi of a Reformed congregation. But for a Conservative rabbi to do this will, or at least should, result in him being shoved out the door in short order.


14 posted on 10/08/2014 11:53:44 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

he has a right to be homosexual

he DOESN”t have a right to treat his family like this

once you have a family, you should stick with it......
not jilt them to pursue your new-found sexual appetites elsewhere

homo or hetero or sheep or goats or pigs

stay with your family, rabbi!!!


15 posted on 10/08/2014 12:03:43 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: Boogieman

Being a Rabbi is easier and pays better than digging ditches or being a grocer. So he wants to stay a Rabbi, still get paid but completely disavow in thought, word and deed the actual things he is supposed to be teaching.


18 posted on 10/08/2014 12:46:55 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Instead of condemning this man’s deceit this guy will be praised.
Evidence of the low character among the gay rights activists.


19 posted on 10/08/2014 1:10:41 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Mrs. Don-o

As with many modern American Jews, this guy does not identify as a Jew as much as he embraces liberalism.


20 posted on 10/08/2014 1:12:51 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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