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When religious doubt threatens community belonging

My Hasidic community expects total devotion but I keep having doubts about whether God actually cares about the minutiae of daily law and I feel like I'm betraying everyone I love.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The authentic movement of questioning threatens the social bonds that provide meaning and identity, creating an impossible choice between truth and belonging.

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