Welcome Rabbi's Study Cantor's Page Education Rel. School E.C.C. Adult-Ed Youth Dept. I guess it's true if we ask different people, they will give us various answers to this intriguing question.
Some people fear sickness more than anything else.
Others dread failure, poverty, old age or loss of loved ones. Many of us totally shudder at the thought of our own death. We dislike to contemplate the day when our personal existence will come to an end. Those are the big ones. There are other normal, understandable, and acceptable anxieties that may not be as acute as the ones I just listed, but they are equally real.