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Encountering God and Wrestling with Faith - Reform Judaism Guide: 30 Stories
Reform Jews discuss their spiritual journeys with the editors of Reform Judaism magazine.
Why Religion Matters
We can't compare faith flatly to reason and declare it intellectually inferior. Its territory is the drama of human life, where art is more precise than science.... Some say that religion is the cause of our worst divisions, and a threat to democracy and civilization.
Drawing Near to God: A Discussion Guide
A. Overview This Reform Judaism Focus section, "Drawing Near to God," invites you to consider your understanding of God, encourages you to explore preconceptions about whether and how God is manifest in your life, and suggests traditional and modern ways to relate to God.
God Training
We Reform Jews love to talk about God. We will argue heatedly in Shabbat morning study groups about God's role in the lives of our biblical ancestors.
God Wrestling
I was born to Jewish parents who modeled goodness, esteemed intellectual honesty, and conveyed a clear sense of right and wrong, but they never spoke to me of God.
This Is My God
Menahem Mendl of Kotsk, one of the outstanding leaders of early nineteenth-century Hasidism, was reared by a learned father who also was an outspoken opponent of Hasidism.
Life at Its Highest
A meditative study of our texts can allow us to decrease the separation between the sacred words on the page and ourselves. Unlike cognitive understanding, which assumes that the object to be understood is separate from the person engaged in the understanding, meditation supports a kind of knowing that sees the object and the person as one.
The God Puzzle
"I don't believe in God," the young woman said as she sat down in my office. "Do you have to believe in God to be Jewish?" Before saying "No you don't" to her question -- Jewishness is determined by parentage or by conversion -- I decided to engage her on her opening statement.
Of Vileness & Virtue
The 1990s author Tom Wolfe calls it "the decade of moral fever," as compared to the 1980s -- "the decade of money fever." The cry for moral virtue, particularly from the religious right, has reached thunderous proportions in response to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.
God, Where Were You?
The God who suffered and wept with us during the Holocaust is my God. To say this is a statement of faith, and admittedly not grounded on scientific proof. But that does not make it any the less real.