It takes a concerted effort to find a resting place when we are surrounded by heart-breaking news both in the world and for many, in our own lives. And yet, our tradition teaches the deep lesson of Shabbat: pausing and resting and taking a breath is essential to building our universe. In this spirit, I’m sending you something I wrote last week about Continue Reading
“How is Your Heart?”
I recently read a lovely teaching about the "disease of being busy" by Professor Omid Safi from Duke University. He wrote that when asked "how are you?" so many of us reply with choruses of "I'm so busy...I'm crazy busy...so much going on..." He shared that there is a Persian and Islamic custom that instead of asking "how are you" one asks "how is your Continue Reading
