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Why Me?
It sounds like a setup for a Woody Allen joke. What happens when a Rabbi and a Jungian get together to talk about faith? (Pause for laughter.) But seriously folks, the unlikely pairing of Rabbi David Wolpe and Psychoanalyst Lionel Corbett were brought together by the Hammer Museum for a dialogue about Jung’s illustrated manuscript, The Red Book. My favorite moment was when Wolpe talked about the WHY ME question (with which I’m all too familiar, especially when it comes to not finding a mate). Wolpe is puzzled that people ask why me, only when times are hard. And he should know about hard. He has survived non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a brain tumor. So what about when life is abundant? “I live in the richest country in the world, and never have to go to bed hungry,” Wolpe wonders. Isn’t that when we should also ask, why me?
Image from The Red Book by C.G. Jung.
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Another favorite moment of mine was when Rabbi Wolpe spoke about his confusion over the expression, “spiritual, but not religious.”
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