It was a puritan endeavor to find a space of gravity and divinity here on earth While me on the other hand, I at Yale university.
紐瓦克是為清教徒尋找莊嚴(yán)和神圣之地而建立起來的同他很相似 我在耶魯大學(xué)
And proud to stand before you right now having founded a religiously based group while I was here.
現(xiàn)在很自豪地站在你們面前我也曾創(chuàng)立過一個基于宗教的團體
It is known, I hope some people here are affiliated with the great Eliezer society.
它小有名氣 我希望你們有人加入其中也就是偉大的以利以謝社團
Thank you very much for the one person who is a part of Eliezer here.
非常感謝 這里有一個人是以利以謝社團成員
But in truth, Eliezer is one of my most proudest Yale affiliations and I say that with all sincerity.
實際上 以利以謝是我在耶魯最自豪的一個社團我這句話非常真摯
We started Eliezer with a young rabbi I met him on his 21th birthday. He was.
我們和一位年輕拉比 創(chuàng)建了以利以謝社團我是在他21歲生日時遇見他的 他是
A Hasidic Chabad rabbi and you know I don't have something caught in my throat for.
一位哈西德派哈巴德主義拉比要知道 對于非猶太教徒而言
Those of you who are non-Jewish This was a Hasidic rabbi who was an extraordinary man.
我沒有什么堵在喉嚨里 不能說的這位哈西德派拉比是一位很了不起的人
And it was five of us around a table at Taft apartment.
我們當(dāng)時五個人圍著一張桌子在塔夫脫公寓
Who on a Shabbat night celebrated this wonderful organization's beginning.
在安息日晚上慶祝這個奇妙組織的成立
I am a non-Jew. I am Christian but this was to me extraordinary, we started a society.
我是非猶太教徒 我是基督教徒但這對我來說意義非凡 我們創(chuàng)建了一個社團
Named after Eliezer who was from the Torah, actually is a non-Jew himself, and.
命名為以利以謝這個人物來自摩西五經(jīng) 他本人也不是猶太教徒 而且
He was sent by Abraham to find a wife for his son.
他被亞伯拉罕派去為他兒子尋找妻子
Interestingly this is the word Eliezer really means.
有趣的是以利以謝這個名字的實際意義是
The son of a servant, the servant of Eli actually and in many ways the spirit and the vision we had.
仆人之子 這里實際上是以利的仆人實際上 很多方面來講 和一位拉比一起
For this organization founded with a rabbi was to try to find ways to serve all.
創(chuàng)建這個組織的精神和愿景在于希望找到各種服務(wù)于所有人的方式
And so today I want to do something a little different than you were probably expecting from this Christian man from Newark, New Jersey.
所以我今天這次演講的內(nèi)容 可能是你們沒料到的你們不會想到 來自新澤西紐瓦克的基督教徒會這樣講
But in honor of a man named Abraham Pierson who had a spiritual drive that helped to found the city.
我將向亞伯拉罕.皮爾遜表達敬意他繼承了紐瓦克這座城市建造者的精神力量