23/08/2026
Jewish theology is MASSIVE ,
Thousands of years of people arguing, praying, philosophizing, doubting, interpreting, and trying to understand what we mean when we say “God.”
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one thing I deeply love and share about here is how Jewish thought is how much richer its conception of God is than the old-man-in-the-sky image so many of us grew up with.
And Judaism doesn’t just have an interesting language around God. The entire relationship with God itself is complex.
We will wrestle with the idea of God. We will struggle. We will believe, and not believe. We will feel deeply connected and incredibly far away.
Judaism encourages questioning. It recognizes the natural run and return of any relationship.
Judaism sees this journey of wrestling with God not as a failure of faith, but as part of what it means to have faith at all.
Every great leader in our tradition had imperfect faith. They questioned. They argued with God. They doubted themselves and what they were being asked to do. Even the name Israel comes from wrestling with the Divine.
I think sometimes we imagine that having faith means arriving at certainty and staying there.
But Judaism gives us something much more robust: an imperfect relationship. An opportunity for curiosity. For seeing MORE all around us.
You are allowed to wrestle with God. You are allowed to have years when belief comes easily and years when it doesn’t. You are allowed to reject an idea of God that no longer makes sense to you and keep searching.
We have thousands of years of Jewish wisdom, language, argument, ritual, and prayer to wrestle with alongside us.
