One of the most meaningful gifts I have to…
One of the most meaningful gifts I have to give myself and my family is deciding to observe. Shabbat Shabbat is a Jewish day of rest from sundown on Friday until nightfall on Saturday Jewish people are required to refrain from work so Shabbat gives me 25 hours each week without phone calls emails television I have the time and space to chill reflect on my soul and in her life and to be present for my family
— from Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)
In the book
Eat together, and give that table your whole attention. Build small rituals that carry the love — in my family there is a Shabbat each week, twenty-five hours with no phone and no screen, time simply to be present with the people I love; in another family I admire, every Friday dinner each person must pay a genuine compliment to every other person at the table, a game that was a miserable struggle at first and slowly taught children to look for the good in one another. There is a deeper reason these gatherings matter so much — deeper than habit, deeper even than love — and it is one I have only fully understood as I have grown old. — Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)