My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.
I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.
My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.
I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.
My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.
You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.
We lived in the shadow of our rich relations. Mother was intent on keeping up with the people she was raised with, which was impossible. My father was a physician who wanted to be a rabbi but was weighed down by a great sense of obligation to support his family in style.
My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.