The God Who Dwells in Doubt | SAPIR Journal
when you stop running away from the possibility of encountering God, when that scary possibility of meaning becomes real, wonderful things can happen.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
God is in search of man. Some religions seek to escape from our all-too-mortal daily round of life to the eternal presence of God. Judaism, conversely, seeks to draw the Divine into the world. In a thousand little details of the holidays, the presence of the Divine is made manifest.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
The first accepts the reality of evil, the second the reality of God. The first says that if evil exists, God does not exist. The second says that if God exists, evil does not exist. But supposing both exist? Supposing there are both the palace and the flames?
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
Whatever justification they propose, the suffering in the world is always disproportionate to the religious explanation offered. Which is why we have to think a bit more about the ‘God’ of religion as opposed to the ‘true’ or ‘real’ God,