Sublime

vayehi life is one in which we passively let things happen. A yehi (“Let there be”) life is one in which we make things happen, and it is our dreams that give us direction.

When we turn to Hashem with bitachon, and we show Him that we have no one else to depend on – not the boss, the bank manager, the CPA, the lawyer or the doctor – then Hashem fulfills all our needs as well.

(kol Yisrael arevim ze bazeh, “All Israelites are responsible for one another,” Shevuot 39a). But it may be that being human also involves collective responsibility. Not only are Jews responsible for one another – so are we all, regardless of our faith or lack of it.

I wrestle with and write about theology because I care about it to the depths of my being, because questions about who and what God is, and about what it means to be a Jew and a human being in the twenty-first century matter to me like almost nothing else does.

"Whatever Hashem does is for the very best" (Berachos 60b).