Dear all,
I was by the coast last weekend and took an opportunity to gaze at the
beautiful vista. It was hard to detect where the water ended and where the
sky began.
And it made me think …. Judaism often focusses on opposites:
Male / female
Kosher / traif
K'dusha (holiness) /chol (ordinary)
Shabbat / the rest of the week
Jewish / Not-Jewish
In truth, we often find the deepest spirit not in the organized categories, but rather somewhere in the middle.
Think of it this way: Shabbat doesn't begin when it's dark. It begins when
it's neither dark nor light, on Friday evening as the sun sinks into the earth.
The same can be said for our lives. It's about how we communicate through differing opinions. It's about how we learn to see eye-to-eye in the face of that which sometimes makes us uncomfortable.
Life isn't always black and white. And when we take a moment in time
to consider the holiness of in-between, we'll be able to connect heaven
and earth.
With love and Shalom,
Rabbi Zach Shapiro
