Let My People Know

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: "Among those gates to inner life and to religion there is also a Jewish gate"

Rabbi Steinsatz said:

Our young people are looking to things spiritual, to things meaningful.

Some of them, sometimes, almost by mistake, look toward Judaism.

I think that most of them don’t know that among those gates to inner life and to religion there is also a Jewish gate.

For so many of our people, this gate, I suppose from the bar mitzvah on, is closed, because they think that the bar mitzvah is the occasion on which a person formally announces that he is no longer interested in being Jewish.

Therefore, they make it into such a big happening.

For many children this is a sign that Judaism is not interesting, that Judaism doesn’t have anything to offer.

Luckily, there are some who find their way to Judaism. 

–Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz