By special (and much appreciated) request, I am reposting “Alive & Thinking” from my old blog @ http://mishleishlomo.blogspot.com/2005/04/alive-thinking.html!
There once was kid from Crown Heights
Who stayed up reading most nights
His faith hadn’t faltered
But curiosity altered
His notion of the wrongs and the rights
With strange books they caught him
So quickly they sought him
Devices to thwart his desire
But try as they may
There just was no way
To extinguish that free-thinking fire
The heavier the chain
So much greater the strain
On the hopes and the dreams he had planned
Until all that mattered
That these bonds be shattered
For the man who yearned to expand
So he pursued that truth
Discovered in youth
Escaping from all that he knew
Becoming free
Isn’t that easy you see
When you're raised as an Orthodox Jew
Sometimes he reflects
On that life he rejects
While fumbling through thoughts in his head
Yet he continues to strive
Feeling much more alive
Than those who consider him dead
3 comments:
And please do not get me wrong, I am not saying that Athiests are children or are lacking any sort of mental capacity. They are just blinding themselves, normally purposfully, to part of themselves and part of the world.
We are blinding ourselves to the world? Perhaps you are imagining things. Did you ever speak to an angel? Did an angel ever speak to you? Did God ever speak to you? Yeah you and all the nuts in the insane asuylem. The Rebbayim wax eloquent over high and lofty issues.The angels that serve God and their duties. These people are delussional. They have never seen an angel, yet they know their names and their jobs, and what purpose each one serves. And you say that we are blinding ourselves? Tell me my friend, which one of us is crazy?
Us guys born into observant envoirnments are cursed. I don't believe that your typical Non-Orth Jew ever thinks about shabbat or T'sha B'Av but we have been indoctorinated regardless of the way we feel. Even though I strive for it I will never be truely frei
Ray,
That is so true. It's been 16 years now that I have been away and I am just starting to make the internal changes that come with freedom. There is no reason to deliberately shed those inner workings, but it can make transitioning much smoother.
On the other hand, the other world perspective that I carry into Golus has it's benefits, as would any variant point of view. Sometimes, I get to see things from more than just one vantage point.
Kol Tuv
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