We’re not perfect. We slip up. We lose faith. We give up sometimes or screw up sometimes or accidentally forget how to follow a particular law… or intentionally ‘forget’ how to follow a particular law. But we never stop trying. We never stop struggling. We never stop wrestling with God. We’re always going to try to live up to the standard He created for us. There’s something vitally necessary in that struggle. If we don’t do it, who will?
So it can be hard to be a Jew. It can be a burden sometimes. Other people don’t understand us. They misrepresent us. They spread lies about us. They attack us. They try to impose their own ideals upon us. They blame us for their own problems. They take out their anger and frustrations on us. But we can’t give up; we can’t give in.
We’re not finished yet. We’re not there yet. But we’re trying, Ringo. We’re trying real hard to be the shepherd.
Sigh - THERE, done.
I thought he did a fine job explaining this rather difficult subject.
Judaism and thinking about God
Re: Judaism and thinking about God
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.