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enough to identify with the
Jewish people or to "feel"
very Jewish. The peoplehood
component obligates Jews to
concern themselves with the
welfare of fellow Jews, both in
their neighborhood and on
a the other side of the world. It
obligates Jews to realize the
difficult task of ahavath
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yisrael, loving fellow Jews —
■ even those with different re-
ligious attitudes and obser-
• vances.
It is easy for a Jew to cry
at films of the Holocaust, to
feel pride when Jews win
Nobel Prizes, and to cheer at
Israeli victories. The serious
Jew attends yet another
Soviet Jewry rally, visits
Israel yet another time, works
for Arab and Ethiopian Jews,
and tries to hug Jews of other
denominations.
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Commitment
Through Struggle •
The serious Jew's commit-
ment to God and to Jewish
law must come through
struggle.
The very name of the
Jewish people, "Israel,"
means "struggle with God."
How could Judaism have
made it clearer that it deems
lip struggle a necessary element
of a Jew's life?
For many Jews, however,
there is little struggle with
God. Many Jews who believe
in God believe in a God who
is more like a celestial butler
upon whom they make de-
►
mands than the Divine law
giver who makes demands
upon them.
Even observant Jews can
fall into an attitude toward
God that is more a function
of habit and communal prac-
0 tice than of struggle. Perhaps
that is why the eminent Or-
o' thodox rabbi, Emanuel
Rackman, wrote that "God
created doubt:' After all, God
could certainly have created
us with certainty as to His
existence. Yet, God chose not
to — perhaps because the
1 . struggle to come to God is as
important as the faith itself.
Then there are the secular
Jews who refrain from the
struggle altogether. "I just
cannot believe in God" is a
cop out. Judaism demands
even of the atheist Jew that
1 " he struggle to come to know
God. As Elie Wiesel has said,
"A Jew may love God, or a
Jew may fight with God; but
a Jew may not ignore God."
lb be a serious Jew, one
may not ignore God (or pay
• attention to Him only during
crises). The essence of Juda-
ism is to incorporate God in-
to one's daily life.
It also means grappling
with God intellectually.
Secular Jews often dismiss
the beliefs of many religious
people as intellectually
shallow. And they are right.
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