At my synagogue, I am often shocked to discover that people who always speak to me with unfailing consideration and the utmost respect regularly berate the synagogue secretaries mercilessly when they call for appointments or for better seating arrangements for the High Holidays. I think they must imagine that since I am God’s agent on earth, God only pays attention to their interactions with me and doesn’t register their conversations with the secretaries. Why, after all, would God be interested in unimportant people like my secretaries? But the annoying thing about God is that God seems to be
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