Next Year in Jerusalem

I got this quote from a great article titled “Next Year in Jerusalem” it is an incredibly moving piece of journalism. It chronicles a young mans journey from secular life to Orthodox Judaism. I don’t relate to any one character in it more then any other, I just think it’s an exceedingly honest account of the intellectual and emotion struggle involved when one has their faith or lack there of challenged. A copy of the article in its entirety can be found in PDF format here.

It seemed that losing your faith and losing your lack of faith had much in common. At some point you were suspended between two competing, self-consistent realities, knowing you had to go back or forward, with no one to help you and no net. And once you were out there, you realized that skeptic and believer were mirror images, reflecting a vision of logic in the universe. – Next Year in Jerusalem p.14