Love Letter (the Conservative version)

Ben Newman has a lovely song called “Love Letter”, which is a metaphor for Progressive Judaism. I could not resist attempting to rewrite it to be about my affiliation – Conservative Judaism. Here’s a version of the last four verses which resonates more closely with my beliefs:

Please don’t say you expect me to make sense of this vastness

For the words are too tricky and so…

See, while some of the laws do make sense when I read them

There are rules that I still need to know

I’ve occasionally heard

That law doesn’t endear

And that what we have here

Is a legal dispute

We both know that’s absurd

But the rules are exacting

As debate they’re attracting

And I am in pursuit –

I just feel that good laws here can still be decided

That’s why I read the words once again

We can talk this thing through, we can learn it anew

Learn it over and over – ‘cause I’ll love you forever –

Each time falling in love with you all over again