Vika Krieger

Probably the best analogy is like mindfulness, right?

Like, yes, you could be like a Buddha on a mountaintop somewhere and just be fully mindful 24-7.

But actually, like for most people, it's like I strive to have moments of mindfulness in my life.

And those moments kind of inform the rest of my life.

But I'm not just like sitting in lotus position all day, right?

And so to answer this question, I kind of have to tell you like what I think God is.

That's fine.

I'm going to come out of the closet and tell you what I think God is.

You know, so like in Jewish spiritual tradition, God is like, and it's going to be so hard to say things that don't sound like completely woo and sort of out there.

You have blanket permission.

Permission to be woo.

Yes.

So in Jewish tradition, the shortest way to sum it up is like God is oneness.

That like everything that ever was, is, and will be, the sum total of all of those things is God.

Absolutely.

And this concept of dveikud, of cleaving, is like when you feel totally subsumed in the oneness.

That's the sort of goal, right?

And God is an English word and a Christian word.

It's not a Jewish word.

And the word for God in the Jewish lineage, it's a four-letter word that you can't pronounce.