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Reproducing or republishing an article, in whole or in part, in any other forum requires permission of the author or the moderator. In my list of the duties of a rabbi, I said that a rabbi should conmfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable to which Brad Elkin expressed surprise that I was quoting the Christian theologian, Langdon Gilkey. Brad however is mistaken. I was quoting noted Jewish commentator Dennis Prager. Dennis did not attribute this quote to anyone, but I think it is pointless.