Jewish wisdom teaches that our yearnings generate life. Desire animates. As the prophet Amos says, "Seek Me and live." Jewish wisdom urges us to go for it, to seek answers to our deepest questions, to search for spiritual and personal fulfillment while knowing we will never finally get there — oh, but the discoveries we'll make along the way! We are meant to live, to search with intention. When we can uncover our deepest longings for intimacy, pleasure, creativity, and self-understanding, life yields illumination and happiness. Far from being a burden, our desires themselves become a path to blessing. . . .

Rather than teach absolute truths, Jewish teachings invite us to dance with dualities and contradictions.

Irwin Kula, Yearnings