Abraham Joshua Heschel’s book “The Sabbath”… has this line — “Six days a week we seek to dominate the world. On the seventh day, we try to dominate the self.” It’s amazing how much harder that is to do. But I can’t shake the question of, what if I did actually spend a full seventh of my life, which is what the Sabbath is supposed to be, living at a different speed? Who would I be if I knew more than how to work and not work? Who would I be if I knew actually how to rest?
— Ezra Klein, “Ezra Klein Interviews Judith Shulevitz.” The New York Times, January 3, 2023.
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Clever this Herschel quote, isn’t it?
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Sure is. Happy Sunday Klaus.
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How to rest…I’m not sure I have figured that out.
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and, nor have I!
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ah, yes –
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Thank you, Ezra! (& of course, David)
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Thanks Carrie!
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Resting is such a gift. We don’t have to be buried to find the peace there.
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Right!!!!
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I‘m pretty good at succumbing to the lure of Sundays….
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Good for you Kiki!
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