I was leaving for the afternoon prayer at a consulting gig at MetroTech, in Brooklyn, and turned to my secular colleague Bob and quipped: “I’m going to connect to the Master of the Universe. Do you need anything?”

It was an accurate description of what I was about to do. It was also a joke, and the joke worked because we both knew the gap between the words and the reality.

That gap is not a personal failing. G-d is the ultimate abstraction. Nothing about Him registers in our senses. That is why the commandment to love G-d is puzzling, and why connecting to the........

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