Ultimate Questions
Sep 20, 2012 By David Hoffman | Commentary | Shabbat Shuvah | Rosh Hashanah
There are some who expect religion to provide answers. The religious experience is thought to be a refuge from the messiness of life; a peaceful, ordered worldview that may help explain life’s daunting moments. In this way, faith offers the believer comfort that life is as it was meant to be, and that one’s spiritual work centers on acceptance and “finding” one’s path. Judaism turns these ideas on their head.
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2 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
For you have fallen because of your sin.