Rebirth (Book 4)

Spiritual Reform Ashkenazi

Being born in a country

Where religion was frowned upon

And being too young to understand

Until coming to the

Land of the free

Home of the brave

For many years

Though I knew

I was Jewish

I never felt religious

And therefore thought

I was a bad Jew

It wasn't until

I got older

And had my

Bat Mitzvah

That I realized something

Important about religion

It does not have to

Be written in stone

Nor always guidelines

Followed

It all comes from

Ones soul and heart

So I became a

Spiritual reform Ashkenazi

I believe in Hashem

Our G-d

But on my own terms

Just like people say

That one can only believe

In religion

Or evolution

Well why not both?

Where does it say

That someone cannot

Believe that G-d created

Evolution

You can be a scientist

And still go to a place

Of worship to a higher power

No longer am I defined

By just one word

Towards my religion

I am not a human being

Living a spiritual life

But a spiritual being

Living a human life

I am me

I do not have to

Conform to any rules

Of my religion

Even in prayer

Everyone is allowed

To be whomever

They seek to become

Reform is the least

Religious of all sections

Of Judaism

Ashkenazi all depends

On which part of the world you are from

Being from the USSR/Belarus

Or Europe as a whole makes

One Ashkenazi

So when someone asks me

Who am I

Religiously

It is very easy for me to

Look them straight in the face

And say

I am a

Spiritual reform Ashkenazi

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