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There is a crisis for our middle and high school students that has reached desperate proportions: they don't believe in God and they see our tradition as having nothing relevant to say about what God could be to them. Typical of immigrant cultures, we have answered them for generations that they need not worry because it's a glorious thing that Judaism allows you to be an ethical atheist. Yet is this answer best for them, or, easiest for us? Our middle and high schoolers are riddled with anxiety, self-doubt, and hopelessness, and yet we don't give them the greatest tool for managing those: a relationship with God. Using the work of Bible scholar Benjamin Sommer, I explain how to teach them that their relationship with God is their relationship with their inner voice, just as it was for Moshe, utili
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There is a crisis for our middle and high school students that has reached desperate proportions: they don't believe in God and they see our tradition as having nothing relevant to say about what God could be to them. Typical of immigrant cultures, we have answered them for generations that they need not worry because it's a glorious thing that Judaism allows you to be an ethical atheist. Yet is this answer best for them, or, easiest for us? Our middle and high schoolers are riddled with anxiety, self-doubt, and hopelessness, and yet we don't give them the greatest tool for managing those: a relationship with God. Using the work of Bible scholar Benjamin Sommer, I explain how to teach them that their relationship with God is their relationship with their inner voice, just as it was for Moshe, utili
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