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Maimonides Reflections: November 6, 2026

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Rabbi Dov Huff ('00)   Rabbi Dov Huff ('00) worked at Maimonides School for 18 years, most recently as Middle/Upper School Principal. He and his family made aliyah this summer. Rabbi Huff is now serving as the Sgan Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi. ​ I am writing this on the Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi tiyul to Maarat Hamachpela. What a zechut it is to write about this week's parsha while walking in the footsteps of the avot and imahot, to stand on the very ground purchased by Avraham Avinu thousands of years ago, on the spot where he uttered the seminal phrase ger vetoshav anochi imachem. For Rav Soloveitchik zt”l this phrase is definitional to what it means to be a diaspora Jew. Avraham is capturing the reality of the Jew living in a predominantly non-Jewish society. In that society w...