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Pamela Schieber's avatar

The rebirth of Israel is miraculous. I believe because I look for miracles. The out of season rain helped extinguish the fires around Jerusalem. I've had miracles occur in my own life. God is unknowable but is. The fact that we are still here is miraculous.

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David Levine's avatar

Very interesting piece, especially since I and my late father would often joke that he was the atheist and I the agnostic.

However, it is one of your ending paras that is most telling and true: "Whether I believe in the God of Israel or not, I do believe in his people. And if I believe in his people, then I have a relationship with him, whether I believe in him or not. I struggle with his enemies because I struggle with those who fight his people and thus fight against him."

To your last sentence, I have lost any faith in the rest of the non-Jewish (and some Jewish) civilized world. The deafening silence of the world post-Oct 7 to this day of the barbarity and continued inhumane behavior of Hamas, their ilk, and their master Iran, against HUMANS it unforgivable.

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