honeytaiglach

being a better Jew – a work in progress – a life time process.
I found the easiest way to get through the bible – go to shul every saturday morning. In one year you will have read it.
Even before the second year you start reading interpretations, commentaries in advance, it builds on itself. you don’t have to work at it, it just comes naturally.
Go easy, learning your religion logically, intellectualy, critically is essential – learning your relgion through experience – is equally important – but you need time to live it, synthasize it, to let it become part of you.
Remember two things, you can’t learn the Torah standing on one foot and you have the rest of your life* to learn (*this denotes a continuem not an excuse for procrastination)
for some Sabbath shul attendance is something to do – an action, for me—it is a break from my week, my home, my work, I go early (when I can, before many arrive,) to prepare myself for prayer, to meditate, to breath, to be before G-d to thank, plead, and relax – to talk to G-d is that simple. all you need say is “Here I am” and Hashem knows you. the difficult part is Hashem says “Here I am – Here is my Torah” understanding any aspect of Hashem – not so simple.
They (I forget where I read it, I am no scholar) say in mussar (the refining of one’s soul) that the most important thing we can achieve is to be a mench.
My mother told me it is a life time endevour.