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Never to be happy because we are in Galut (exile).<\/span><\/p>\n

Never to enjoy a meal without feeling: this bread is unconsecrated!<\/span><\/p>\n

Never to drink a cup of wine without ruing the fact that it cannot be poured out on the altar as a libation to God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Never to observe a holiday in its proper fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Never to celebrate a wedding or a birth without thinking: our children are doomed!<\/span><\/p>\n

Never to feel God\u2019s closeness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Always to view ourselves as \u201cwanderers\u201d among the gentiles (the root word for \u201cwanderers\u201d here is the same as that used to describe Cain\u2019s curse back in Genesis).<\/span><\/p>\n

That is how Hosea foresees the lot of the Jewish people in exile.<\/span><\/p>\n

But is that an accurate depiction of American Jewry today?<\/span><\/p>\n

Or has Hosea perhaps omitted the most terrible curse of all: to feel the malaise without understanding the reason for it?<\/span><\/p>\n

To run to psychiatrists. To overeat. To abuse alcohol\u2026or one\u2019s spouse. To jump from woman to woman, bed to bed. To kiss the mezuzah a hundred times. To take one\u2019s family to an overpriced European hotel for Passover. To work and find no satisfaction in it. To learn the \u201cdaf\u201d every day\u2026and then to feel hollow inside afterwards. To participate in every \u201csocial justice\u201d cause\u2026except our own.<\/span><\/p>\n

To forget the source of our unhappiness\u2026and our happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n

To forget that we are exiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

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