I'd just become a father, and I began to have relationship problems with my wife.
Jobs were hard to come by, due to the 70's oil shock, and Conservative govt. interest rate rises,
to curb inflation.
I turned towards G-d, and having come into contact with Muslims, particularly reading the OT.
I recognised the dietary laws & circumcision for example.
One early summer morning I couldn't sleep, and took a walk, and heard some religious chanting coming from a house.
I went inside, and saw loads of shoes. A man came and asked what I was doing, thinking I was there to steal.
He told me to come back at another time. He seemed angry, so I thought no more about it.
A week later, a man [neighbour] knocked on my door, and he said he'd been watching me, and knew that I was
going through some kind of spiritual experience, and invited to me to the mosque.
I said that I was a Jew, and he laughed, asking whether my mother was a Jew .. I said no, and he said that his mother was .. and I wasn't a Jew but a Muslim.
Anyhow, I agreed to go along to the mosque, and found out that it was the same place that I had stumbled on the week before.
While I was regularly reading the OT, I read "I will show you where to worship me", and found that the congregation
all had beards as the OT described, and the speech in English was about denouncing worldly wealth.
I also came across religious encyclopedias, and it felt like I had "struck gold"
.. I will pause here, as I am not trying to bore the reader.
