One of the blogs I follow is Midlife Bat Mitzvah (by Ilana DeBare). And she’s just posted a fascinating interview with one of her rabbis — Andrea Berlin. In it she talks about how her relationship with God (which is both personal and transcendent) changes every day. She talks about the authority of the Holy Books of various faiths (“Judaism teaches that I am bound to Torah because my people accepted it. … Only the people who are part of the covenant need to adhere to it.”) She talks about prayer (and her personal sense of “waking with God” as she climbed Half Dome). She talks about cyber=Judaism (which she sees as an emerging and helpful supplement to congregational involvement). And she talks about her anger with God (“My tradition gives me the right to be very angry at God.”).
If I have whetted your appetite, you can find the whole interview here.
May 15, 2011 at 5:46 am
Thank you for re-posting! I hope you have a meaningful service today (I’m off to teach King David).
May 16, 2011 at 7:43 am
It was really my pleasure. Services were nice yesterday. I hope the King David session went well. Blessings.
June 23, 2011 at 6:15 am
Hey! Send me an e-mail. I tried to send you one but the last e-mail address I had must not be good. E-mail bounced. You can find my e-mail if you don’t have it in your address book by going to my blog profile. I have some kind of fun news.
Fred