Religion

I love Yom Kippur in the way I imagine some runners must love marathons--not just for the sense of satisfaction in completing something difficult, but also the extended moments of joy in the doing of it. Process and result. You wouldn't want to do it every weekend, but you still want to do it.

But even people who run marathons must have their favorites--the years everything goes perfectly, the courses which just seem to suit them. This was not one of those. ( cut for religious meandering, possibly incomprehensible to non-Jews )

Final score: 7/10. And now I must start typing up my lectures.