Shabbat Nachamu The actors and the audience Ours is a religion of conversation. We talk to G-d, and most of all like all good conversationalists, we listen for Him: listen... listen... listen. We are not spectators we are participants. We are not creations; we are partners in Creation. We are not an audience that gawks at lifeless objects of worship; we are the actors, we dialogue.  We dialogue with each other. We dialogue with the Torah and its Laws. We dialogue with the universe: King David could interpret the songs of nature and the music of the luminaries, Solomon the chatter ..