Rabbi Zuckerman: Do Clothes Make the Person? (February 21, 2026)
Rabbi Zuckerman Sermons
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15m
Rabbi Zuckerman explores why the Torah goes into such detail about the clothing one should wear in a sacred space. Clothing, according to the Torah, is not decorative. Rather, it binds us and shapes us. In the biblical imagination, clothing does not merely express identity – it creates identity.
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