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In Temple times, those words were appropriate. They meant ritually impure and unclean, that is, unfit for Temple access. Today, however, they summon up negative associations of “not clean” or “dirty,”
It is not that these teenagers grow up before their time; it is that they grow up learning to respond authentically to real sorrow and loss as well as to intense joy; they learn to channel these feelings in a socially constructive manner; perhaps most important of all they learn to feel things deeply. And they learn to remember.
they also suggest something else about the human condition: that there is a tension between the poles of one’s life, mastery at the one end and enslavement at the other; mastery in drive, energy, creativity—and enslavement to the pressures and seduction of the hurly-burly world.
If there is some special food newly available, buy it for Shabbat. Your first avocado of the season should be saved for Shabbat. The first watermelon of the season is cause for Shabbat afternoon rejoicing in our backyard.
Modern Orthodox Jews can—and do—live squarely in two worlds: one of traditional Judaism, the other of modern Western society. One can lead the religious life and still be a “modern” man or woman.
It is generally accepted that Judaism as a religion is more oriented to holiness of time than holiness of place.
It isn’t that we don’t use electricity, it’s that we don’t operate it.
Without mutual consent and responsibility, the whole thing would be reduced to a test of wills each month, a contest in which all who win would eventually lose. A man, therefore, must not only agree, but must be willing to assume personal restraint.
chanukat habayit, which means “dedication of the house.”
occasionally, we have to extend ourselves and invite those who otherwise might not have, yet would greatly appreciate, the experience of a family Shabbat.