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in 1956 as part of a group from the
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Rackman was the eighth in as many generations to earn rabbinic ordination, but the first to earn a living as a rabbi. He said that "it was my father's hope that I would continue the family tradition, insofar as I could be both learned in the Jewish tradition while making a living in another way".
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has demonstrated its ability to be the instrument presently required by the Jewish community."
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of
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Rackman married the former Ruth
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