I was having a gentle morning conversation when suddenly the woman said, "How old is the world?"<\/p>\n
Wow. "About five billion years," I said. "I think that’s the scientific consensus."<\/p>\n
"But what about the Torah?"<\/p>\n
"I don’t take the first eleven chapters of Genesis literally."<\/p>\n
"If you had said 5769 years, I don’t know how I would’ve gotten my mind around it."<\/p>\n
"He he."<\/p>\n
"I’m embarrassed to admit this, but in college, I was the president of the Jewish student group ATID. And when we had money left over near the end of the school year, I had us buy weed. ATID Weed."<\/p>\n
"You’re a bad girl."<\/p>\n
"I had never gotten an aliya<\/em>. I was told I would die. You can’t. Lightning would strike. I menstruate. I had a bat mitzvah. It was eye opening. I led the prayers. My best experience with Judaism was that year. For that year, I really got into non-Orthodox forms of Judaism. I became fascinated by Mordecai Kaplan and Reconstructionist Judaism."<\/p>\n "After 18 years in yeshiva, and a year in Israel, I was just like Captain Destructo. I was lighting fires."<\/p>\n "I’m having dinner tonight with author Josh Alan Friedman<\/a>."<\/p>\n "IS HE ORTHODOX, because if so I automatically lose respect for him and his intellect.<\/p>\n "Say something."<\/p>\n "I’m so tired, I’m going to bed."<\/p>\n "I’m coming over. I want you to prepare. Say tehillim<\/em>."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was having a gentle morning conversation when suddenly the woman said, "How old is the world?" Wow. "About five billion years," I said. "I think that’s the scientific consensus." "But what about the Torah?" "I don’t take the first … Continue reading