Creating Sabbath Peace in a Beeping World
Creating Sabbath Peace in a Beeping World - NYTimes.com
Great article about creating a sense of Shabbat in the modern world. Here is one quote to tantalize: "'The second you write down the rules, it doesn't work for me,' Reuben Namdar said. He believes that the Sabbath of everyday Jews, rather than the Sabbath of the disputers and the thinkers, was never as strenuous or elaborately thought-through as the Orthodox Sabbath is today: 'You ate well, you slept well, you had sex, you were in a special state of mind, you did not chastise the kids. It was organic.'"
Great article about creating a sense of Shabbat in the modern world. Here is one quote to tantalize: "'The second you write down the rules, it doesn't work for me,' Reuben Namdar said. He believes that the Sabbath of everyday Jews, rather than the Sabbath of the disputers and the thinkers, was never as strenuous or elaborately thought-through as the Orthodox Sabbath is today: 'You ate well, you slept well, you had sex, you were in a special state of mind, you did not chastise the kids. It was organic.'"