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A review by dakotavander
Finding God: Selected Responses by Rifat Sonsino, Daniel B. Syme
5.0
🧐 “Finding God: Selected Responses” by Rabbis Rifat Sonsino and Daniel B. Syme 🔍
One of my biggest insecurities in my conversion process has been my belief in God. I thought that my lack of faith in a mythologically massive all-powerful sky zaddy was going to keep me at odds with my Jewish identity forever. I was so happy to find myself and my views within these pages and to realize that ”God” is much more than that.
In this revised edition there are 13ish sections that explain different views and images of God through the wide spectrum of Jewish thought. From the absolute theism of Biblical and Rabbinic belief to the naturalistic humanist approaches of Kaplan and Fromm, I was genuinely surprised by the wide breadth of thought this volume provided.
I feel so much more comfortable now proclaiming myself as Jewish while also holding onto my personal thoughts, views and beliefs on God and religion. I encourage anyone, Jewish and non-Jewish, to read this to maybe help discover where they may fit in the world of Jewish theology.
One of my biggest insecurities in my conversion process has been my belief in God. I thought that my lack of faith in a mythologically massive all-powerful sky zaddy was going to keep me at odds with my Jewish identity forever. I was so happy to find myself and my views within these pages and to realize that ”God” is much more than that.
In this revised edition there are 13ish sections that explain different views and images of God through the wide spectrum of Jewish thought. From the absolute theism of Biblical and Rabbinic belief to the naturalistic humanist approaches of Kaplan and Fromm, I was genuinely surprised by the wide breadth of thought this volume provided.
I feel so much more comfortable now proclaiming myself as Jewish while also holding onto my personal thoughts, views and beliefs on God and religion. I encourage anyone, Jewish and non-Jewish, to read this to maybe help discover where they may fit in the world of Jewish theology.