Originally published in JJSO 25:1 (1983), pp. 68-9. Chaim Raphael, The Springs of Jewish Life, v + 288 pp., Basic Books, New York, 1982, $16.50. When David Hume asked a man, who was reading philosophy for the first time, how he was getting on with his studies, the man replied: ‘I am persevering but cheerfulness keeps breaking…