the Knower, and the Known (as Rambam refers to Hashem), one can trust that all is for the ultimate good and live peacefully and without worry.

then, out of the cosmic Nowhere, a voice speaks, using those three most touching words from Moses’ journey up the mountain. Hineh makom itti. “Here is a place, with Me” (Exodus 33:21). There is room for you in My world. I will move over just a bit, reduce My allfilling presence, as it were, to make a space for you.

The project of prayer, this blessing could say, is that of holding your doubt and grappling with it, but not letting that be a reason to drop out of relationship with God.

is easy to find God in total seclusion and escape from responsibility. It is hard to find God in the office, in business, in farms and fields and factories and finance. But it is that challenge to which we are summoned: to create a space for God in the midst of this physical world that He created and seven times pronounced good.