To My Surprise, My 70s

My Mother Was A Modern Woman With A Limited Interest In Religion. When The Sun Set And The Fast Of The Day Of Atonement Ended, She Shot From The Synagogue Like A Rocket To Dance The Charleston.

I Didn't Want To Be On The Losing Side. I Was Fed Up With Jewish Weakness, Timidity And Fear. I Didn't Want Any More Jewish Sentimentality And Jewish Suffering. I Was Sickened By Our Sad Songs.

I Was Not Comfortable Worshipping Another Jew.

An Aged Rabbi, Crazed With Liberalism, Once Said To Me, We Jews Are Just Ordinary Human Beings. Only A Bit More So!

The Secular World Is More Spiritual Than It Thinks, Just As The Ecclesiastical World Is More Materialist Than It Cares To Acknowledge.