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W

e read this week the story
Thus, believers are desperate to
of Noah and the ark, the
prove the historical and factual truth
animals and the flood, the of Scripture, desperate for something
rainbow and the promise.
tangible, touchable and material. The
Torah says that the ark came to
surety of "biblical proof" protects
rest on the mountains of
true-believers against
Ararat, a region in eastern
the challenge of everyday
Turkey, very near Iraq,
experience that seems to
and just 150 miles north
show that bad things do
of our U.S. troops who are
happen to good people,
fighting a modern war in
and that life is not fair!
ancient Mesopotamia.
True-believers, whether
What strange images
Jewish or Christian or
come to mind —
Muslim, cannot accept
American tanks and HUM-
that the chaos, disorder
Ra bbi
V's rolling over the ruins
and injustice all around
Joseph P. Klein
of our pre-Hebrew history,
us is indeed the reality of
Specia I to the
soldiers patrolling the
our world, because such a
Jewis h News
place of our 6th century
conclusion would deny the
B.C.E. Babylonian exile;
God-in-charge, just-and-
helicopter gunships hovering over
fair, reward-and-punishment promise
the site of the great rabbinic yeshivot
of their faith. They cannot accept that
where Talmud was written.
God has already given us sufficient
This land, from which so much of
power, ability and the capability to
our history grew, has become very
repair the problems that beset us.
important to many today who would
But God does remind us regularly
go there for proof of biblical history.
that we are already blessed with the
Periodically we read reports (albeit in
wisdom, strength and courage to both
supermarket tabloids) of the immi-
improve and protect ourselves in this
nent discovery of Noah's Ark. And I
world of chance and happenstance. To
often wonder why it's so important for spend our energy searching for Noah's
"true believers" to prove the biblical
Ark as proof that "God is," is a sad and
text?
desperate demonstration of the weak-
We live in a world of tenuous secu-
ness and ultimate frailty of that faith.
rity, a world in which the truths prom-
God wants us to believe in our-
ised by our faith seem not to be born
selves, to believe in the justice and
out in the reality of experience. We
mercy of the human conscience, and
believe in a God (or want to believe
in the power of a committed com-
in a God) who rules the universe with
munity to transform our world. And
love, justice and mercy. We believe
I don't need proof of the ark to verify
(or want to believe) that the good are
that truth. 17
rewarded and the wicked punished,
that God looks out for and protects
Joseph P. Klein is rabbi of Temple Emanu-
good people, that ours is a world
El in Oak Park.
watched over by a gracious and loving
and benevolent God.
But the reality of the world is not
what that faith promises. And so,
Conversations
many believe that this is only an
apparent" reality, that God's rules of
Why are some believers so invested
justice and righteousness and loving-
in definitively proving God's exis-
kindness do, in the end, rule the day
tence? Where might one look to
— though they don't know exactly
find evidence of God's presence?
how.

