Reply To: Would you become religious/Jewish?

Beruchim habo’im to all who sacrificed so much. It is an inspiration.

Personally, I don’t think I would have made the move, or even felt I was missing some thing during my late teens and early adulthood. I would have had to have settled down, be married with children, see how profound life is, how limited and vulnerable we are and learned some of life’s lessons before I would even realize I was missing something. At that point I believe I would have searched intensively and determinedly for truth and meaning and that would inevitably lead me to yiddishkeit.

I grew up taking yiddishkeit as a given(as I think it should be). There was a time when I started to question why I am Jewish and what it means to me- whether it should mean something to me and why. I was fortunate that a group of my friends were joining a kiruv seminar in Israel and asked me to join. The speakers were fascinating and logical, and while they taught us what to say to the unaffiliated, I learned the answers to my own questions. It really strengthened my yiddishkeit. Reading R’ Avigdor Miller ZT”L’s books also made me proud and set things straight.