Reply To: What is the purpose of life?

>> Man’s (specifically a Jew’s) purpose of creation

>> was to serve his Creator (incidentally thereby

>> obtaining a portion in the world to come). That

>> is everyone’s hashkafa.

Thank you very much.

That is very difficult to follow for someone raised in a secular Jewish environment. There the purpose of life is to become a lawyer/doctor/professor. I did a PhD in Mathematics which I hate, thus I can not and would not get a job in math. I wanted to be a writer/advocate, but I have no formal education. Thus all my chances of what seculars call success are lost.

Maybe it was G-d’s blessing to me that I could not succed in this life — so that I would return to service of G-d and maybe obtain a share in the Next World. Can I become a part of Orthodox Jewish community.