So much of our religious tradition has the influence of other religions which a seeker of truth should never ignore.  Judaism is far from perfect which is why I had no problem with peoples of differing belief systems. Nothing touched by man is pure.

         The ideal belief system must be:

• honest enough seek the truth
• objective enough to be tested
• flexible enough to change

In Reformed Judaism I had the liberty to grow closer to G-d while shrugging off the shackles of spiritual dogmatism.

There is no hilltop for the seeker of truth as he performs teshuvah. If a man's faithful to a nickle's worth of truth and love, God will reveal the dime.

Teshuvah never ends, but my association with organized religion did eventually. I found that no matter how hard I tried, I just didn't fit in. It seems that so often people go through the motions of the doing of religion out of habit.

I needed more than that, yet I did not know what it was I was looking for.