Vika Krieger

And you're just like, how is this supposed to be the bedrock of a faith?

This is God that's actually such an unappealing character.

It's like going to see a play where like the main character is like really unappealing.

It's just like, you know, like it's kind of how I feel about White Lotus.

Like I kind of hate that show.

I'm just like there's no appealing character in this whole show.

So like the Torah is kind of like White Lotus in that way.

But it's also the text that you have to use.

Right, well, the way that I navigate that is that the God of the Torah is not God.

The God of the Torah is a character.

It's a God character that was, like, created by humans, but it's not God.

And I would say that there's an inherent contradiction, and I'll say in Judaism, it may be true in other religions, I'm just less of an expert in other religions, that, like, Judaism has these sort of two paradoxical sort of truths, which is that, like...

We have the God of the Torah that is very much a human-like figure that has feelings and does things.

But then there's like it's very clear in the Jewish sort of tradition, the Jewish law, whatever, that like you are not allowed to personify God.

You are not allowed to anthropomorphize God.

Like God is not a person.

God is not a being, God is not separate from us in any way.

It's this paradox of like, wait, this resonates.

I think for a lot of modern people, this idea that God is not a person or a sentient being in any way, it's like, okay, that can square that with the world as I see it.

But then what the fuck is this very human like God in the Torah or the Bible or in the Koran or whatever?