I am a physician and I live in a community with a rabbi who is not a friend and has removed me from his congregation as he did not like a conversation I had at a day after Rosh Hashana and before the day of Atonement with another congregant.
I was called by the rabbi whom I will not yet name today and told never to come back to the synagogue.
No letter. The president of the congregation did not return my calls or inquiries.
Basically I will tell you this. One morning at the shul, I met with the rabbi breifly. For some reason the tone of his breath as it was treated with a medicinal mouth wash struck me at particularly thought provoking. Of course many Americans do mouth washings, but for some reason I always seemed to think that there was a particular meaning behing the mouth washed condition of his mouth.
Now, a Year and nearly one half since being asked to leave this congregation, I will tell you this.
This rabbi was more concerned with his breath that morning than he was with my personal friendship in life.
And with that I accuse this rabbi of having tendencies that are very like the man named A. Eichmann.
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