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Sepher Ehben: Aphorisms — Yir’ah

“Fear of God” is not a moralistic fear of doing wrong and being caught. Neither is it the fear of a child waiting to be struck by vengeful…

“Fear of God” is not a moralistic fear of doing wrong and being caught. Neither is it the fear of a child waiting to be struck by vengeful parent.

True Yir’ah is a state of awe which reaches so deep into one’s soul that existence itself trembles and shakes loose everything but piety.

The concrete expression is that “there are no atheists in a fox hole”

By Jason Medland on July 23, 2018.

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Exported from Medium on March 4, 2019.