On that day we will be challenged: VERIFY THAT YOU ARE A JEW.
They demand, for example, that we un-mix scrambled letters and jumbled words in order to determine that we are not preprogrammed machines. One site even asks us to check that “I AM NOT A ROBOT,” (which assumes that robots, unlike humans, never lie….)
I am not sure if I can honestly say that my religious behavior, such as davening, Torah study and mitzvah performance, is not occasionally robotic and not fully conscious of the Creator, in sad fulfillment of Yeshayahu’s lament in 29:13: mitzvas anashim melumadah.
Other providers request innocently that we must first “VERIFY IT’S YOU,” while still others provocatively demand that we “VERIFY THAT YOU’RE A HUMAN.”
Dig beneath the surface of these apparently superficial questions, and what we have here is a veritable Rorschach test for us all, an exercise in self-examination. What emerges is a kind of Jewish religious selfie.
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