There is a tension.  Some things are worth struggling for.  They are beyond our immediate grasp for a good reason – if they were easy to attain, we would not value them as much.  So we have to reach – go beyond our immediate set of skills and work toward something new. But if they [...]

If I didn’t know Hebrew, and I wasn’t devoted to Orthodox practice, there is approximately NO WAY I’d be praying three times a day out of a prayerbook.  The bar is just too high!  There’s just nothing instinctual about it.  Even doing it in English – it feels repetitive.  If I don’t know the difference [...]