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Why Do People Turn Away From Judaism?

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What causes people to walk away from religion? When people feel that their religion has become mechanic, illogical, meaningless, dry internally, it's hard to sustain a bonus when you don't feel that it's meaningful, that it provides you with inner authenticity and inner truth. People have a hard time feeling emotionally well off and emotionally balanced and psychologically firm. So therefore, it's hard to carry the duties of religion. Sometimes it's projection. They take out their frustration. People take out their frustration. They everyone take out their frustration in other people. Some of those people take out their frustration. We have to be very careful about working on emotional well-being and emotional health prior to religious goals and aspiration. It's something that I learned from my rebal that to always prioritize emotional well-being even at the cost of accomplishment because accomplishment will come without emotional wellbeing the accomplishments will all crumble.