Rabbi Abraham Heschel, the great Jewish spiritual writer, shared a story that illustrates this. A young student came to him one day, complaining of religious confusion and doubts about God’s existence. The young man had grown up in a family that was full of faith; he had attended the synagogue regularly, read the scriptures daily, and had been quite pious. Now, as a university student, his religious life had dissipated considerably and he was beset with every kind of doubt. He shared with Rabbi Heschel his pain about these doubts and how he could no longer find the God of his youth in his
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