A Yearn to Learn

The more I read the blogs of others converting to Judaism, those who have converted, or Jews by birth...

the more I read books on Jewish heritage, Jewish history, Jewish thought, and Jewish practice...

the more I am around others who were born Jewish and raised Jewish and who live Jewishly...

the more I yearn to learn. I realize just how much I don't know, how much I need to learn, how much there is to do: rituals, brachot, keeping kashrut, preparing for Pesach, and so much more!

I feel as though I have a lifetime to fit into a blink of an eye...which, in a sense, I do. I was not raised in an observant Jewish family, so I must learn everything that a child does, and work my way up an an adult's knowledge. However, I still have a lifetime in which to fit this gathering of knowledge. Remind me of this: there is time. Time is of the essence, but there is time.