I woke up this morning pondering what to write about.
The cartoon of the inventor of the wheel who offers it to the knuckleheads who are too busy to listen.
And then one of my clients wrote to me. She said: customs make the Jews, not the Jews make the customs?
And then the idea for this article was ready.
The email conversation began with my client wishing me a happy Christmas Eve.
I answered that in Judaism the day starts with the sunset and the appearance of the first stars.
I wrote: Do you know that in Judaism the day of everything starts at the eve of it? birthdays too…
She answered: I knew that in the Torah, the days started with the eve. But, I didn’t know if Judaism was still doing that.
And birthdays… I hadn’t thought about that!
I think it odd that it didn’t end up being the norm how Judaism does it. But, at the same time, I’m so acclimated to thinking
each day to begin at sunrise…
Me: the old Hebrews didn’t have a clock, but the sunset was like a clock…
Her: I’m understanding it Israel keeps time as
Jews always have. And, as I understand it, Israel’s is a more accurate system.
I looked here: Jewish Time (aish.com) https://www.aish.com/jl/hol/o/48944546.html
Me: I read the whole article. I bet it’s true that it was the customs that keep a Jew a Jew… not the other way around.
I grew up in a completely secular household… and had to learn who I am in my 30’s…
It’s a pity that almost all Jews want to marry into the world…
Her: So, the customs keep a Jew a Jew; and not so much a Jew actually keeping the customs?
Me: this is true for everyone: what makes you who you are is the things you repeatedly do… your habits.
Mostly it makes people worthless, because they have worthless habits.
Her: What a potent take on “How you do anything is how you do everything”! Of course, unlikely that I’ll make any changes – but maybe?
Then I measured her inspirability… and it was a puny 7 on a 1-100 scale… so I agree with her: it is highly unlikely that in this uninspirable state she’ll do anything different.
So why did I share this whole conversation?
Because I want you to be cognizant, aware, very aware who your actions shape your life.
And maybe even more importantly how the actions come from how you see the world.
99% of the people who visit this site are too busy to care really what would make their lives better, even though that is what they want. But they are busy being filled with idle curiosity, wanting, and searching.
For any change you need to stop everything, and look. Look at your life, look where it’s going. You need to also stop listening to the little voice in your head telling you to do something.
You need that quiet time to even know what you want. To even see that where you are heading is not that. To see that your actions are not in line with what you want, in fact, for most people, they keep you stuck.
The other day we had a workshop
The other day we had a workshop
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