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I’m an old-fashioned news hound. I can’t start my day without reading the newspaper. The
Washington Post is my paper of choice. And I read the hard copy that gets thrown on my lawn every morning around 5am. But then, as I start my workday, I work in a professional bubble of my own creation. I get no news feeds at all. Given how upsetting the news has been for the past four years, putting the news out of sight and out of mind once my day gets going has been an act of self-preservation.
Judaism Is for Nonbelievers, Too
This is the time of year for Jews to feel like hypocrites. We come to synagogue every year, pick up the machzor and recite words that we’re not sure we believe. Do we really think there’s a monarch in the sky? Does God really shift from one throne to another? Do we really think that the words we recite will avert an evil decree?
There are good reasons that lead many to reject belief. For example, Elisha ben Abuyah, known as Acher, one of the great heretics in the Talmud and one of the greatest rabbis of his generation experienced trauma when he witnessed a father tell his son to climb up a tree and fetch an egg from an elevated nest. The boy scrambled up the ladder, shooed away the mother bird then tripped and plunged to his death. Watching that tragedy, Acher exclaimed, “If this is possible, then there is no judge and there is no justice.”