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“To me, it seemed they were following an abridged version of Judaism, so who were they to tell me how and what to believe? I said this to my parents when I was lobbying not to have a bat mitzvah. My father got very quiet. The reason it’s important to believe in something, he said, is because you can.” — Jodi Picoult
To me, it seemed they were following an abridged version of Judaism, so who were they to tell me how and what to believe? I said this to my parents when I was lobbying not to have a bat mitzvah. My father got very quiet. The reason it’s important to believe in something, he said, is because you can.