DEUT1485 To speak of a realistic and practical approach to God may seem to the uninitiated to use wrong terms when applied to the eternal verities of life. Yet realism and tangibility are not associated only with those things which can be touched or handled. Judaism has one grand purpose: to extract from life the beauty inherent in all things created by God. (Hence the blessings to be recited on all occasions.) To do so, it has pictured the world not as a torture chamber, in which our food is mixed with tears and our blessings with delusion; but as a field made glorious by opportunities ever before us, or by misery and pain which prove often the gateways to a better life. "That thou mayest live and rejoice with all the good things that God has given thee" [this verse] is the incentive behind many a command made by the Torah.