I like the radical and rational Rabbi Balfour Brickner. I also like the congenial, Buddhist practised-minded Sylvia Boorstein.
She wrote: I think what most excited me (and many other westerners) about Buddhism was that it offers a succinct explanation for suffering. It recognizes that pain is a given in lfe, but still offers the possibility of the end of suffering (by ending the extra pain of struggling with situations beyond our control.

In my life my living model for the non-struggle pathway are my own husband, Dr Jean Netario Cruz and Tato Malay.

“The end of suffering, I learned was something I could bring about through my own practice. IT DEPENDED ON ME. And, I didn’t have to believe it was true, or say I believed it was true, or make any declaration of faith at all.”

“The Buddha’s elegant and succinct teaching about the possibility of the end of suffering – not the end of pain, but the end of suffering- I was captivated, and I was thrilled and I was reassured. The idea that it was possible, in the middle of this very life, fully engaged in life, to live contentedly and compassionately was completely compelling.”

Between what I learned from the Rabbi  about prayer and the above statements of Sylvia Boorstein I can now enjoy LIFE without being fearful I am not doing enough to appease an ANGRY God (of the Old Testament!)!!!!!