Why We Have Trouble Praying • with Art Green

Martini Judaism · Jun 7, 2023 · 52m

“So, Rabbi, in your more than forty years in the rabbinate, what are those things that surprised you – those things that you never expected, or that you once expected that didn’t actually come to pass?”

There would be a long list, but here is the one that moves me in particular.

Forty years ago, we never would have expected that so many Jews would turn to God as the location of their Jewish energies – that trend that we call Jewish spirituality.

In particular, we never would have expected that so many people – Jews and gentiles alike – would flock to the study of the teachings of Jewish…