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The Rabbinic Roots of the Gettysburg Address

A day after the end of the Battle of Gettysburg, the abolitionist rabbi, Sabato Morais, delivered a sermon that may have impacted Lincoln's famous speech about that battle.

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Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
Meir Soloveichik is the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel and the director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. His website, containing all of his media appearances, podcasts, and writing, can be found at meirsoloveichik.com.

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The Rabbinic Roots of the Gettysburg Address

Taught By

Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

1 of 8 Exodus, the Presidential Seal, and the Civil War

2 of 8 Lincoln, Esther, and the Emancipation Proclamation

3 of 8 The Rabbinic Roots of the Gettysburg Address

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8 of 8 Lincoln, Moses, and America

1 of 8 Exodus, the Presidential Seal, and the Civil War

2 of 8 Lincoln, Esther, and the Emancipation Proclamation

3 of 8 The Rabbinic Roots of the Gettysburg Address

4 of 8 The Almost Chosen People

5 of 8 General Grant and the Jews

6 of 8 When Lincoln Died on Passover

7 of 8 The Eternal Lessons of the Second Inaugural

8 of 8 Lincoln, Moses, and America