Toby Ziegler's personal/spiritual crisis: the inner struggle between religious conviction (sparked by Rabbi Glassman's sermon and pastoral counsel) and professional obligations as Communications Director — the Sabbath interruption dramatizes a man torn...
Toby Ziegler's personal/spiritual crisis: the inner struggle between religious conviction (sparked by Rabbi Glassman's sermon and pastoral counsel) and professional obligations as Communications Director — the Sabbath interruption dramatizes a man torn between prayer and urgent civic duty.
Events in This Arc
During a packed synagogue sermon on Passover ritual and the moral lesson that "violence begets violence," Toby sits rapt until his beeper pierces the hush. As the rabbi solemnly declares …
Toby finds Rabbi Glassman in the synagogue after the rabbi's sermon and they quietly parse what moral counsel should mean inside the White House. Glassman reveals Bobby Zane called, making …
In the Oval at night Bartlet wrestles with whether to commute a federal death sentence. Toby returns from his rabbi, describing how Jewish legal restrictions once made state execution effectively …