Monday, 21 September 2009

J-Blogosphere

I've really got into my blogging this time around. As i mentioned in my first post this is probably my 4th attempt at a blog and this one is going very well. I guess I have got to thank Google reader, I have linked all the sites I frequent and it also has a handy tool for keeping upto date with blogs I follow. So in the past when I would have seen a blog I was interested in I would just keep the webpage open and then lose it when I had to reboot the computer. But now I keep upto date with all the blogs I am into.
I am currently reading about ten or so, some right pearls out there! It is just so interesting to see how other people relate to Judaism and G-d, to read of their struggles and their inspirations. Its amazing to read about an Australian Jews travails and then to read of a Brooklynites anticipation of the New Year!
There is one segment of the J-Blogosphere which I pay much attention to, that of those Jews who have, well, gone off the derech. Those, brought up in the fold who have now left. for whatever reason.
I must read several of these blogs now, for one reason, I don't want to start having a go at them for the reasons they don't believe or the reasons they were put off Orthodoxy, rather I read what they have to say, and I answer them for myself. They raise some tremendously valid questions and I keep asking myself, "how do I answer that?" be it questions on Evolution to enquiries on the validity of torah! I constantly reaffirm my beliefs and knowledge through this.
I don't know if this will annoy the various atheist J-Bloggers but i hope not, for they came to their conclusions by questioning again and again, and I remain a believer in my convictions not through some blind leap of faith but rather because I question and question and get the answers.

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