Comments on: Get Back http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/28736/get-back/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=get-back A New Read on Jewish Life Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:40:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ezekial http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/28736/get-back/#comment-23129 ezekial Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:27:26 +0000 http://www.tabletmag.com/?p=28736#comment-23129 When I was in a Baal T'shuvah yeshivah in Jerusalem, the basic assumption was that secular life was deeply hedonstic (and hence shallow). However many times when contemplating going back to our previous secular lifestyles we would laugh about how it was actually so hard to find that hedonism! It required so much damn effort to meet and get girls. So we didn't feel we were missing out on much by being religious. I would say - and here I'm addressing your 19 year old self - religiosity can provide much more enlightenment, than a secular lifestyle can provide hedonism: secular society actually makes it surprisingly hard to find the sex, drugs and rock n roll it promises. When I was in a Baal T’shuvah yeshivah in Jerusalem, the basic assumption was that secular life was deeply hedonstic (and hence shallow). However many times when contemplating going back to our previous secular lifestyles we would laugh about how it was actually so hard to find that hedonism! It required so much damn effort to meet and get girls. So we didn’t feel we were missing out on much by being religious.

I would say – and here I’m addressing your 19 year old self – religiosity can provide much more enlightenment, than a secular lifestyle can provide hedonism: secular society actually makes it surprisingly hard to find the sex, drugs and rock n roll it promises.

]]> By: Pearl R. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/28736/get-back/#comment-22591 Pearl R. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:38:54 +0000 http://www.tabletmag.com/?p=28736#comment-22591 Well done, Liel! One of your best explorations of the tension between the sacred and profane, and the relevance of the Torah... Thank you! Well done, Liel! One of your best explorations of the tension between the sacred and profane, and the relevance of the Torah… Thank you!

]]> By: Ruth Deichman http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/28736/get-back/#comment-22255 Ruth Deichman Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:22:03 +0000 http://www.tabletmag.com/?p=28736#comment-22255 I truly believe that as we get older, life's experiences make us turn to faith. At some point, we realize that rather than a hinderance, faith becomes a crutch which many people need in their later years when our mortality stares us in the face. Hence what was once, in our youth unthinkable, becomes of prime importance to us because we now take comfort from our religious beliefs. I truly believe that as we get older, life’s experiences make us turn to faith.
At some point, we realize that rather than a hinderance, faith becomes a crutch
which many people need in their later years when our mortality stares us in the face. Hence what was once, in our youth unthinkable, becomes of prime importance
to us because we now take comfort from our religious beliefs.

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