Mudhouse Sabbath

On Friday afternoon, at the very last minute, we’d rush home, stopping at the grocery to pick up supplies. Flying into the kitchen we’d cook ahead for the next twenty-four hours. Soup and salad, baked chicken, yams and applesauce for dinner, and vegetable cholent or lasagna for the next day’s lunch. Sometimes I’d think how strange it was to be in such a frenzy to get ready for a day of rest

All fruits and vegetables, by the way, are kosher. Eat as many chick peas, pomegranates, Bing cherries, and green beans as you

we will do and we will hear” or “we will do and we will understand

Mostly it’s about training so that you’ll know the mountaintop for what it is when you get there

because God commanded the lighting of candles: Closeness might be a nice by-product, but it is not the point

It is rather to say that for Jews, the essence of the thing is a doing, an action