And they saw the God of Israel: Under His feet there was the likeness of a pavement of sapphire, like the very sky for purity. —Exodus 24:10
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Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik
RABBI MEIR Y. SOLOVEICHIK is rabbi of Shearith Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. He is the director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University, and he writes regularly on issues of faith and religious freedom.