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Rabbi Stuart Shiff, one of six New York rabbis employed by Aish HaTorah, a nonprofit Jewish-education organization, carries two pieces of equipment: a BlackBerry and a book of the Torah. Weekdays, he treks to businesses around the city on behalf of Aish's Executive Learning Program--for a voluntary donation (average: ten thousand dollars), bosses who are too busy to go to shul can have a rabbi meet them at the office. "Studying the Torah took my mind off the stress," Lisa Shalett, the C.E.O. of Sanford Bernstein, says in an Aish brochure.
"What this program does is it blows away all the excuses," Shiff explained recently, in one of Aish's conference rooms in midtown....
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