This blog, this post, is the culmination really of years of not knowing what to do with the unsatisfactory answers to a million different questions about who I am, where I come from, and who I want to be. Without realizing it, I've been looking for this blog for most of my life; yes, even before there was such a thing as a blog, before I knew what a blog was, before I came to appreciate the nature of the blogosphere's collective wisdom. I was desperately looking for a blog by a Reform Jew grappling with the kinds of questions that I have confronted and continue to confront. Only in the past few months did I finally, belatedly, begin to sift through the many terrific Jewish-related blogs out there -- many of them are linked here -- but none of them focused on the specific issues that I grapple with. I salute them because they have given me the inspiration to do this, not knowing where it will take me or what I will find when I get there.
I'll have a lot more to say about these things over time.
But it still begs the question, why this blog, and why now?
- because I've been on the road to this moment for a very long time, and I've run out of excuses
- because there are ideas that I believe need to be expressed and that need to be explored
- because the words of Rabbi Bag Bag have always spoken to me: "Turn it, and turn it again, for everything is in it; And contemplate it, and grow old and gray over it, and stir not from it, for you have no better principle than it"
- because I have fallen short in my life as a Reform Jew -- I have not studied and questioned and known the laws before knowing where I stand
- because over the past few years, questions I never thought I'd have to ask have been put on my table
- because this is the only subject I've ever really wanted to write about
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