We claim to love rest, but do we? Dig a little deeper into your relationship to rest and you’re likely to find some discomfort and guilt. We live in a culture that does not honor rest for its own sake, but only begrudgingly allows it for the sake of greater future productivity. In this meditation, as we look at the Torah’s commandment of shmita, the seventh year resting of the land, we re-orient towards the value of rest as sacred in and of itself and along the way, we consider how rest teaches us also to value ourselves as sacred in and of ourselves, and not for what we accomplish or produce.
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