Jin
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While we aren’t Jewish, my family and I have recently practiced a day of rest each week. Actually, Covid provided an opportunity for us all to take this day of rest as a family as we were all at less busy with daily schedules.
We spend a portion of our Saturday preparing:
Making the house clean and enjoyable to be in.
All meals prepared in advance.
All urgent business taken care of.
Saturday night the phone gets put in the drawer and (mostly) doesn’t come
back out until bedtime Sunday night.
On “Shabbat Sunday’s” we take time as a family to share all meals together, listen to music, read, read books to the kids, play games, go for a walk etc. The wife and I take time to enjoy our spiritual practices, which may be rushed during the week.
Nothing that would be considered work and hopefully no reason to leave the house.
No TV, screens etc.
We don’t do this out of any religious obligation, but we do find great wisdom in practicing a day of rest. During Covid it was weekly. Now it’s about twice a month.
As far as spiritual practices go this one has had a very positive impact on my well being and my families. And everyone looks forward to it.
And I don’t think you need to treat it as a spiritual practice to get benefit from it either.
Having a day off once a week from the stresses of life to reconnect with family, eat well and rest is a good practice for all IMHO.
In about 7 hours I’ll be putting my phone away so “Shabbat Shalom” to all you juice monkeys.
We spend a portion of our Saturday preparing:
Making the house clean and enjoyable to be in.
All meals prepared in advance.
All urgent business taken care of.
Saturday night the phone gets put in the drawer and (mostly) doesn’t come
back out until bedtime Sunday night.
On “Shabbat Sunday’s” we take time as a family to share all meals together, listen to music, read, read books to the kids, play games, go for a walk etc. The wife and I take time to enjoy our spiritual practices, which may be rushed during the week.
Nothing that would be considered work and hopefully no reason to leave the house.
No TV, screens etc.
We don’t do this out of any religious obligation, but we do find great wisdom in practicing a day of rest. During Covid it was weekly. Now it’s about twice a month.
As far as spiritual practices go this one has had a very positive impact on my well being and my families. And everyone looks forward to it.
And I don’t think you need to treat it as a spiritual practice to get benefit from it either.
Having a day off once a week from the stresses of life to reconnect with family, eat well and rest is a good practice for all IMHO.
In about 7 hours I’ll be putting my phone away so “Shabbat Shalom” to all you juice monkeys.