[1952] in Depressing_Thoughts
Something I lost....
amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 12 21:22:14 1991
I went to the talk ``Who Needs God?'' with Rabbi Kushner tonight. It
was absolutely wonderful -- Rabbi Kushner is an entertaining and
interesting speaker. It was also the most Jewish I've felt at MIT.
Rabbi Kushner spoke about ``reverance'' as something that many of us
have lost. He's right, at least in my case. Reverance doesn't mean
--- oh, I can't explain it like he did. It's just that I'm not really
Jewish right now. I'm going through the motions, but I'm not part of
the Jewish community at MIT; not part of any Jewish community. I
don't feel comfortable with Rabbi Shevitz; I don't feel like I'm part
of a common Jewish community with most of the active students in
Hillel.
I'm not articulating this well. For that, I apologize. I guess I'm
lonely; not for friends or for personal love, but for a sense of
completeness, of community. I'm not living; I'm scamming life, I'm
faking it --
Does any of this make sense?
