UTAH (JTA) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a live audience at a tech conference that he has “become more religious” in recent years.
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Zuckerberg was interviewed Friday evening at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit.
“The last few years have been really humbling for me,” Zuckerberg said. “I’ve become more religious.”
He attributed his religious evolution to the issues his company has faced over the last few years and the birth of his two daughters, now ages four and two, Deseret News reported.
“We all need to feel like we’re parts of things that are bigger than ourselves. I try to put my girls to bed every night … I don’t always get to do that but that’s important to me,” Zuckerberg said. “Work is important … but at the end of the day we’re all people, and you need your family and friends and communities around you.”
“You have to believe in things that are bigger than yourself,” he said.
He later clarified that “I did not mean to say that God is a mentor,” Business Insider reported.
In 2016, Zuckerberg posted on Facebook in response to a question about his religious beliefs: ” I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important.” He once defined himself as an atheist.
He has since posted a photo of his daughter using a family heirloom kiddush cup, and photos of homemade challah and hamentaschen.
For shabbat tonight, we gave Max a kiddush cup that has been in our family for almost 100 years. Her…
Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Friday, September 15, 2017
hypocrite!
Mazel Tov! Now, when is his wife going to convert, as well as his children?
he became a more religious Buddist.
Brooch took the words out if my mouth
He must dump the shiktza he’s married to. Every time he’s with the goyta, he’s getting a separate issur. Intermarriage is like opening the Torah Hakdosha and spitting on it R”L. There is an excellent book I’ve read many years ago, “How to Stop an Intermarriage”, written by Rabbi Kalman Packouz z”l. Someone should send Mark a copy of it.
Don’t make fun of him. He is a tinok shenishba and didn’t know better. Feel sorry that he felt into a trap of love. May Hashem help him do full teshuva. I am happy he started the process and hope for a full teshuva. Other non-frum Jews could benefit, by leading example, and he could also help his brother more, financially.
Who knows maybe his wife convert already and they don’t want to publicize it because they don’t care what you’re thinking of them? also getting in to do teshuva is a slow moving process and we have to be patience and except the process even we think different.