Getting Closer

What’s one of the first things a person does before he starts a game? Learns the object of the game and the rules.

And this I believe is the missing link in understanding and reacting to many things as somewhere somehow the underlying between-the-lines message is that the object and rule of life is: Life is supposed to be easy.

It’s sentences like this that life is supposed to be easy that leads a generation so far away that their children’s children don’t know a word of Torah or even that there is a Torah. Instead of searching for the light at the end of the tunnel we’re grabbing at the luxury of ease which of course takes us in a totally different direction.

The other day I took my daughter to a drama class given in Neve Yerushalayim a school for women baalei teshuvah. Our taxi driver is a non-religious woman and when we pull into the Neve parking lot we see a swarm of girls and I say to the driver “These girls are all baalei teshuvah.” And she says “No. Can’t be. What would make so many go from there to here? And what do they learn all day?”