Is it Time for a Deep Dive into Feelings?
What role, if any, should emotions play in our avodas Hashem?
What role, if any, should emotions play in our avodas Hashem?
Public visibility, and certainly celebrity, risk both disorienting our relationship with G-d and tainting the realness and connection we might otherwise achieve with others.
Israelis certainly acknowledge that their world has been intrinsically changed post-October 7, and American Orthodoxy must do the same. We must recognize that our community has been profoundly altered and our communal psyche shaken.
For Orthodox Jews, the danger of succumbing to mediocrity is probably most acute in the realm of religious growth and observance.