Nothing Less than Love

Monday October 17, 2011

U’v’tuvo mchadesh bchal yom tamid maaseh breishit: In your goodness, day after day you renew creation. Even as an infrequent worshipper, I’ve said this prayer hundreds if not thousands of times since I begantaking Judaism seriously more than thirty-five years ago. I like the concept: creation is dependent on creator; the creator may choose, at any moment, to end creation—to revise, erase, delete, destroy it—or merely