JEWISH VOICES TO CONSIDER AMONG THE PATCHWORK

Elie Wiesel writes in NIGHT that he found Moishe the Beadle, a master to help him with his study of
Kabbalah:

"He explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer...
Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say. Therein lies true dialogue. Man asks and God replies. But we don't understand His replies. We cannot understand them. Because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die. The real answers, Eliezer, you will find only with in yourself.
One evening...After a long silence, he said, There are a thousand and one gates allowing entry into the orchard of mystical truth. Every human being has his own gate. He must not err and wish to enter the orchard through a gate other than his own." 

                                        [ NIGHT - translated by Marion Wiesel (c) 2006,Hill and Wang, p. 5]


The great scholar, Harold Bloom,  shared his thoughts on belief in God in an interview printed in the October 2018 edition (p. 85) of ESQUIRE:

"My wife, Jeanne, is an admirable and honest atheist. I'm not an atheist. My attitude toward Yahweh is that I don't like him and I don't trust him and I wish he would go away. But I know he won't, because he's built into the language, as Nietzsche said. He's part of the way we think. As soon as you use a verb involving being, you're in trouble. When he identifies himself to Moses, he says, 'ehyeh asher ehyeh,' punning on his own name of Yahweh. It means something close to 'I will be what I will be.' Which in effect means 'I will be present whenever and wherever I choose to be present,' which has the horrible corollary 'And I will be absent wherever and whenever I choose to be absent.' And he--or whatever it is, she--has certainly been absent for a long time."