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Many times in college, these questions did paralyze me, and one place I looked for an answer was religion. But when I did, nothing emerged clearly for me. Judaism has rules about the details—what to eat and how to treat people—but I couldn’t find the meaning of life listed anywhere clearly. However, as I thought about this during the high holiday season this past year, that time in the fall during which Jews reevaluate their decisions, I realized one important thing—that season of introspection ends...
...priorities and values. Days are set aside for us to rethink how we act and how we live. But when the sun sets on Yom Kippur, the book of life is closed and put on the shelf until the next year. Whether or not we like the answers Judaism or anyone else offers, whether we have any answers at all, there is a time to search and a time to move on, taking the answers that we’ve considered on our path with...
...soon as the high holidays end, Judaism tells me it’s time to go do something. Build a hut for the upcoming holiday of Sukkot. Make up all the work you missed over the holidays. Go to your meetings and see your friends. In other words, the calendar cycle enforces an end to the season, just as it mandates its beginning...
...followed by students who read short passages about the Holocaust, Israel and Judaism by renowned authors including Elie Weisel and Primo Levi...
...Jewish analysts to present Jesus' various messages--of inner purity over legal adherence; of baptism; of messianism; of the expectation of God's kingdom on earth--as growing out of various 1st century Jewish beliefs. But lately, says Chilton, more Christian scholars have scuttled the idea that Jesus' Judaism was mere "ethnic happenstance." He argues, "If you were to take the elements of Jesus' position in isolation, each would [recall] the practice of a certain type of Judaism. He is distinctive in the way in which he brings the elements together and is able to mediate the spirit...