G-D

I personally do believe in G-D. Whenever I pray I pray to G-D and I have personal conversations. A lot of people in the town I live in think that I’m crazy and some people have gone so far to try and explain to me why I shouldn’t believe that there is a G-D. I think the main reason why I believe in G-D is because I haven’t known anything else for the rest of my life. There is definitely a sense of comfort in praying to G-D and having someone to talk to in a sense. I’m not sure as of now what G-D’s role in our lives is. If G-D has a part in why bad things happen to good people or why there are Holocausts. It could be that there is a G-D out there listening, but G-D does not have the power to make miracles, or it could be that G-D is seeing how we deal with difficult situations. 

While studying the Tanakh in Jewish History, we learned that there were times were G-D was not always there for Am Yisrael and even tried to teach them a lesson at one point. There was a time in the Tanakh when we saw all of G-Ds great miracles and then the transition to G-D becoming a quiet presence. We see G-D going through different phases of power and its really important to question the role G-D plays in our lives in a personal matter. Especially during the Holocaust, it was hard for people to continue believing in G-D. Many Jews at the time were wondering how G-D could let such a terrible thing happen to the Jewish people, and thus stopped believing in one altogether. I think that our upcoming trip to Poland may have an interesting turn on my relationship with G-D. I think it is important to not stray from my beliefs too much because I will be so immersed in what I am learning, but it is also important to keep on questioning my beliefs. If I came back from Israel with the exact same beliefs that I came with, I do not think that it would be a successful trip.