“Those…who write about religion are doomed to live with the knowledge that we can describe everything about it…except for that core feeling…”

Those of us who write about religion are doomed to live with the knowledge that we can describe everything about it—the customs, the rituals, the history, the feuds—except for that core feeling, the transcendent tremor that drives us to truly believe, that graceful feeling that, like sex and songs and other truly blessed things, cannot be captured by the hole-y nets of words.

Liel Leibovitz, “Tefillin the Love”, Tablet (30 December 2015) [http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/196231/tefillin-the-love]