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Seek don’t hide: religious wisdom to cure spiritual blindness

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by Rabbi Will Berkovitz

Rabbi Will Berkovitz is the vice president of partnerships and rabbi in residence for Repair the World a national organization that seeks to make service a defining element of American Jewish life. He can be reached at will@werepair.org.

Several years back the Washington Post conducted an experiment. They wanted to know what would happen if Joshua Bell, one of the world’s finest violinists, (see related article on this experiment) playing one of the best violins ever crafted, was to perform 10 of the most elegant pieces of music ever written.

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