I am going to have o think about some of the things you say and questions you ask here, because I'm not sure what I think about them. I mean, I hate for you to feel like you can't express an interest in Judaism, but at the same time I think that there's something... I don't know, distasteful... about the kind of multiculturalism where people pick and choose elements from religions like Buddhism, often without making the effort to see the whole picture. Which I'm sure is not what you would be doing, but is an unsettling phenomenon sometimes, at least from my perspective.
I do want to just say thank you, though, for sharing that anecdote about your grandmother, which is one the one hand so sad, that there was nothing she could do, nothing she knew how to do, but also so heartening that she took that loss and tried to pass it on to you as something to build with, something constructive. I may not be saying this well, but I think it's an amazing story.
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Date: 2007-09-10 07:54 pm (UTC)I do want to just say thank you, though, for sharing that anecdote about your grandmother, which is one the one hand so sad, that there was nothing she could do, nothing she knew how to do, but also so heartening that she took that loss and tried to pass it on to you as something to build with, something constructive. I may not be saying this well, but I think it's an amazing story.