A Yom Kippur
Meditation

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pirituality? Who knew
from "spirituality" when we
were kids? But now the
word is everywhere — and
often seems to mean everything.
My own reactions to it have
moved from skeptical through
critical to dismissive. But I've
lately wrestled my way through
a roughly 140-degree turn toward
the respectful, prompted by the
growing number of good friends
who take the word very serious-
ly, to whom it signifies an im-
portant part of what they're
about.
Perhaps others will find value
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in visiting the key points on the
arc I've traversed.
My early problem was twofold:
First, there's the very murkiness
of the word, used in so many dif-
ferent ways by different people,
sometimes by the same people.
(Look, for example, at the hodge-
podge that bookstores choose to
shelve under the heading "Spir-
ituality," often a subcategory of
"Religion.")
And then there's the un-Jew-
ishness of a word that seems to
describe a deeply personal, hence
noncommunal, phenomenon. Ju-
daism is overwhelmingly, deci-
sively, communal. Where and
how can we make room for a
quest (as in "spiritual quest," per-
haps the most common phrasing)
that is entirely subjective?
One person finds spiritual sat-
isfaction under a starry sky, an-
other in Gregorian chants, still
another in service to the handi-
capped. Where's the minyan to
gather?
By now, however, so many peo-
ple find meaning and comfort in
whatever it is they understand
"spiritual" to mean that one
ought, it seems to me, go back
to the beginning and ask: To
what question(s) is "spiritual" the
(or even merely an) answer?
It is, I think, a piece of an an-
swer to where the individual fits
in a Judaism whose
collective/communal orientation
can sometimes
be stifling. Is it any wonder,
after all, that here in America,
where we so lavishly celebrate
the individual, that Judaism
would finally have to make space
for the first person singular?
On Yom Kippur, our liturgy is
dramatically in the first person
plural: Ashamnu, bagadnu, we
have sinned, we have trans-
gressed.
When do I get the chance, not
merely sanctioned but encour-
aged by my faith, to deal with my Y –/\
sins, with my transgressions?
Where does the awe I feel on lis-
tening to the Bach unaccompa-

