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Eitan (איתן) Yakhin Hello Friends. What does it mean to be “religious” today? Why are the divides between different Jewish groups widening? How do morality and G-d fit together? A quick search gives me this definition of religious: “forming part of someone’s thought about or worship of a divine being” Going forward, I want to make a distinction between the terms “Observant” and “Religious”. In Hebrew, we could refer to these as “Shomer Mitzvot” and “Daati”. The word ‘religious’, in my mind at least, connotates a certain fervor, a specific conscious decision to do or feel different things. In contrast, the word ‘observant’ brings to mind exactly what the word says: Being observant means that you are

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