Done With Finals!

I was trying to figure out what about Liz’s http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/faithbook/2007/05/this_4286_catholic.htmlpost bothered me so, before I was subsumed by studying for finals.

With the macroeconomy safely behind me, at least for a little while, and a week of saying goodbye to friends before they leave the alternate universe known as college for a little while, I may be figuring it out what it is, even as I have totally forgotten, say, about counting the Omer, the Jewish tradition of marking the nights after Passover until the next major holiday. I’ve thought before that religion, or faith, or mine anyway, is about doing; it’s about repeating the same actions over and over the way they’ve been repeated over and over before. Or so I thought.

But there isn’t time to think. As much as there are Sabbath tables at which to rest and an Omer to be counted, there are friends to hug goodbye and shipping plans to make. So I think that faith, or religion, or mine anyway, is about the community to which I belong, like it or not. Maybe it is my church; maybe it is the other Jews who will tonight see me, a Jew who just posted on the Sabbath, who hasn’t shaved not because traditionally observant Jews don’t shave during the Omer but because of finals, and who is, like them, unavoidably, 100% Jewish.

By Michael Pomeranz  |  May 11, 2007; 8:11 PM ET  | Category:  Lox et Veritas
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