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OF WEST BLOOMFIELD

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and in the childhood of the
human race), there were
places that were unlike all
other places, and moments in
time that were different from
ordinary time. They added
color, texture, and excitement
to our lives. But today no
place is off limits to human
ingenuity. We have become so
good at unraveling mysteries
that few things still mystify
us.
On the one hand, contem-
porary religion is less inclined
to cultivate feelings of
reverence and awe in us
because it recognizes the need

One of the things
that modern men
and women seem
to do best is to put
out sacred fires,
extending the
domain of men and
shrinking the
domain of God.

to reassure us of our in-
dividual significance in a
world that continually brands
us as insignificant. In the
Middle Ages, people built
cathedrals, great soaring
witnesses to the glory of God.

Walk into one of those
cathedrals even today and its
unmistakable message is
"God is great — and you,
human being, are small." But
today, there are so many
secular settings which give us
only the second half of the
message: "You, human being,
are small and insignificant: .
We get it in department
stores, airports, and bus ter-
minals. We get it in colleges
and corporations where we
are known only to computers
and identified by our Social
Security numbers. At so
many moments of our lives,
we are told that our presence
doesn't really matter. If we
were not there, somebody else
would be there to take our
place.
If you are a member of the
"baby-boom generation,"
born between 1946 and 1962,
this is the message you have
heard all your life. Adver-
tisers neglected your parents
(who were paying the bills)
and concentrated on you
because there were so many
of you. As a member of that
group you had considerable
clout. But as an individual,
you never got the sense that
you mattered much. There
was never enough room for all
of you. You went to junior

high schools that had not
quite been completed, and
high schools that were over-
crowded and unprepared for
you. The competition for
good colleges and good jobs
was harder for you than it
was for your older or younger
brothers and sisters because
there were so many of you.
The churches and syna-
gogues of America recognized
your spiritual longing to be
told that you mattered, and
they shifted their focus from
the majesty of God to the
sacredness and importance of
the individual. Emphasis on
person-to-person relation-
ships, on the difference one
person can make, became im-
portant in church precisely
because it was so rare
elsewhere in our society. We
stopped building cathedrals
and built church and syna-
gogue "boutiques," small, in-
timate houses of worship. In
the 50s, we were attracted to
congregations of 1,000
families or more. We wanted
that sense of awe and con-
fidence that came from being
a member of God's mighty
army. But in the 70s and 80s,
we wanted a different kind of
religious experience. We saw
the rise of havurot, small
groups of families within

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