"I am.  From a long line of rabbis.  So I wound up atheist.  Now look at me.  But my cousin Saul and my wife Ruth are both Jews in the religious sense - and talk to Saul; you'll find it's no handicap to this discipline.  A help, probably... as Ruth, once she broke past the first barrier, progressed faster than I did; she was a priestess quite a while before I became a priest.  But she's the spiritual sort; she thinks with her gonads.  Me, I have to do it the hard way, between my ears."