Several readers have asked how specifically I went from hating being Jewish to falling in love with it. Here are the stories about coming to trust and love
Tag: trust
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..in terms of Torah knowledge, I’d say I was about a one. The psalms? I wasn’t sure if they were Jewish, Christian, both, neither? It was kind of confusing.
SILENT
Lag BaOmer… I can’t and should not justify in any way why these terrible things happen. If I am responsible for myself, a mere little tiny human being…
THE WISDOM OF A FOOL
As my departure date approached, and the “yes” was not forthcoming, I twisted myself into a pretzel. I forgot the “it will work out exactly how it’s supposed to…”part. I felt impossibly
WE PLAN, G0D LAUGHS
I sometimes say when things go wrong, G-d sure has a sense of humor! I can do that when the circumstances are not extremely serious. Regarding the more serious things…
G0D, TUBS, & NY Taxis: the Sequel
Hopping in and out of three, four… five tubs, back to the first and then making the rounds again, Reggie, who’d grown up in the Outback cried out, “Stop! You look like a kangaroo! hopping in and out, and …”
THE BATHROOM…& G0D: Part One
I could admit a bathtub was a pretty low-risk venture. If I could trust G0D with this, I supposed it could grow from there. The bathtub felt far from trivial… and yet…
A CATHOLIC, A JEW and a life changing chat
Having grown up in the Outback, Reg’s family ran a 50 square mile sheep station, grew wheat, and raised cattle. Reg’s father, Pat, was a farmer/grazia or
THE POSSIBLITY OF G0D: a recap plus a tad more
I sometimes have a hard time decluttering – i.e. eighteen year old scrawled birthday cards from my kids, my parent’s odds and ends dishes that don’t match, old painted wooden “heart” tissue boxes my kids made (and I never really even used – three of them!). So when I found a story I wrote a Read More
TRACHT GUT VET ZAYN GUT: think good and it will be good
Rabbi Levi made Judaism fun. He always had a good word to say to you and to me about life, about how we were doing…no matter how small. When I was going through a hard time, he made himself available to meet with me regularly even though he