The \u201cbook of memories\u201d [mentioned in the liturgy] is not just what we post on social media for others\u2019 consumption, but also everything we would never dream of posting: the stingy tip we left for the waiter after we took that beautiful picture of our meal. The nasty remark we made to our spouse right after we stopped recording that smiley video of our vacation. All the times we trash-talked our friends behind their backs, or lied to our bosses to cover up our mistakes.<\/p>\r\n
\u2026In some cosmic sense, all of that has been recorded, along with every other moment of our lives over the past year. And the prayers insist that we sit down, watch these tapes, and ask ourselves: What parts do I wish I could edit out? When would I have acted differently if I had known I was being watched? What moments do I never, ever want to repeat?<\/p>\r\n
\u201cThis is how God is different from Big Brother, who also knows everything we do and say, but who uses it against us,\u201d explains Rabbi Alan Lew. \u201cGod watches the whole video with a boundless, heartbreaking compassion.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
What would it feel like to stand before such a God and say, \u201cYes, I did these things, and yes, I feel awful about that, and I don\u2019t ever want to act this way again.\u201d What would this God say to me? I imagine it might go something like \u201cDearest, I know. Those things you did are not you. And I feel quite confident of that because I created you, and I am intimately familiar with your pure soul. So really, sweetheart, stop tormenting yourself and just focus on doing whatever reflecting\/apologizing\/resolving-to-be-better that you need to do to come back to me and return to your pure soul\/truest self.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
I imagine that coming before such a God would make it a lot easier for me to confront what\u2019s on those tapes.<\/p>\r\n
Like many other prayers, Unetaneh Tokef<\/em> includes a number of quotes from the Hebrew Bible\u2014and guess which book it draws most heavily from? Believe it or not, it\u2019s the Book of Job, in which God unfairly punishes a righteous man named Job\u2014an extreme example of bad things happening to good people. When Job confronts God, God basically replies, \u201cYou have no idea what it\u2019s like to create and rule the universe, so back off.\u201d Not exactly the biblical book I would advise quoting from if you\u2019re trying to promote a clear-cut reward-and-punishment theology.<\/p>\r\n \u2026We can\u2019t always control what happens to us, but we do have some control over how we react. When bad things happen, we can cultivate a spiritual practice so that we feel less isolated. We can engage in self-reflection, and do teshuvah if necessary, to help us grow. And we can get some perspective by helping others who are worse off. 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The benefits of that exposure aren\u2019t hard to see\u2014an enlightened understanding of the human condition, an appreciation of the values of democracy, equality, and freedom, and a determination to fight bigotry whenever it rears its ugly head.<\/span><\/p>\r\n The difficulty of living in such open proximity to different peoples and cultures is that it often becomes harder to maintain one\u2019s own way of life. How do we remain distinct in a culture that celebrates blending?<\/span><\/p>\r\n In much of the world, one of the greatest challenges to our continued faith and faithfulness is the challenge of those Christians who feel that their own faith commitment requires them to persuade us to abandon ours. There was a time when Jews knew the Torah and the Talmud well enough that the slick quotations of zealous missionaries, always out of context and often mistranslated, were easily corrected and rebuffed. <\/span><\/p>\r\n Today, however, we are hardly the people of the book.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Deuteronomy 13 contains a lengthy passage that every Jew should stick in a wallet or purse and carry around for just such confrontations. To the claim that a Jew should abandon exclusive loyalty to God and to the Torah, this passage gives a direct response:<\/span><\/p>\r\n \u201cIf there appears among you a prophet or a dream-diviner who gives you a sign or a portent, saying, \u201cLet us follow and worship another god\u201d \u2014 whom you have not experienced \u2014 even if the sign or portent named to you comes true, do not heed the words of that prophet.... For the Lord your God is testing you to see whether you really love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul. 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\r\n\u2022 Why am I here?
\r\n\u2022 How shall I live?
\r\n\u2022 How have I lived until now?
\r\n\u2022 How have I used God\u2019s greatest gift: time?
\r\n\u2022 Whom have I wronged, and how can I put it right?
\r\n\u2022 Where have I failed, and how shall I overcome my failures?
\r\n\u2022 What is broken in my life and needs mending?
\r\n\u2022 What chapter will I write in the Book of Life?<\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>the letters of God's name<\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>as galaxies of Words <\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>a sea \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> a continent of mountains and cliffs <\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>a flea \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> a fish \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>on the wings of a flying dinosaur <\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>an ape \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> a man <\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>stepped forth the righteous <\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>in whose shadows<\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>like galaxies expanding <\/span><\/p>\r\n
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