Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who helped lead Pittsburgh\u2019s Tree of Life congregation through the tragic 2018 mass shooting, will retire at the end of July.<\/p>\n
Myers, 70, announced his retirement earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, Myers said he began downsizing the collection of materials he\u2019s amassed during four decades in religious services.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found original mimeographs, four-and-a-quarter-inch floppy disks and a DOS handbook,\u201d Myers wrote on his Tree of Life blog. \u201cI\u2019m rather pleased that I was able to shrink my possessions down from 150 boxes to 60.\u201d<\/p>\n
Myers began serving as rabbi and cantor at Tree of Life in 2017, and was leading a 2018 prayer service when convicted gunman Robert Bowers opened fire in the Squirrel Hill synagogue, killing 11 people.<\/p>\n
He said that while he has seen a lot of change over the years, certain things remain the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cWorshipers continue to look for a meaningful service and a thoughtful sermon,\u201d he wrote \u201cCelebrating a simcha and mourning a loss have not changed. This has been the calling of a lifetime and my privilege to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who helped lead Pittsburgh\u2019s Tree of Life congregation through the tragic 2018 mass shooting, will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-247860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}