This Yom Kippur: Don’t Forget the Small Print!
Did you ever tick the box “I have read and understood the terms and conditions” without looking and live to regret it? Unfortunately many of us do. Perhaps the greatest misconception about religion is that one can have a healthy relationship with G-d even though one does not have a good relationship with man. Great Jewish leaders through the ages sought to rectify this profound misunderstanding. Two sages stand out. Hillel the Elder (110 BCE–10 CE) and the Baal Shem Tov (1698