Jewish life as I understand it involves both kinds of change. The quantum kind - becoming bar / bat mitzva, married or the other examples you gave. A lifetime of preparation may precede it but the change happens in a moment and is forever.
There's the other kind, too. Building character, or scholarship. That's many moments that add up only over a lifetime.
We couldn't have Jewish life as we know it with only one of those kinds.
You are so right. Perhaps it’s also the moment to moment change that comes each time we turn toward the performance of a good deed, instead of its opposite.
Wonderful. Every word and each space between those words. In those moments when you pick that guitar and simply cradle the instrument in your arms .....that texture comes across to me as a sonic boom. Thank You, Peter.
Each moment we are becoming something else. We are shedding what we once were. Our light of understanding illuminates the way. Yet, we must choose to take each step. Beautiful poem, Peter.
Didn't we all change forever on 10/7/23? We change with our worldviews. We change with our responsibilities. We change with our truths and our illusions, what we want and what we can't live without.
Crises show us who we are and what we care about, who our friends are and who our friends are not.
That was rather scary. There are people who have turned their lives around in a minute, and there are people who go step by step. But even the people who have turned themselves around in a minute, that would just be a building block. Your illustration of the tuned guitar is something to ponder. So thank you. And as one observant Jew to another, you know what it says who is he who is wise one who learns from all.
Sometimes it just happens and we realize it means everything and also means nothing in our life. As Brian Wilson said (in one of the few songs he wrote that he created the lyrics for) "I'm a Cork in the Ocean". Or as George Harrison said "Life Goes On Within & Without You".
Jewish life as I understand it involves both kinds of change. The quantum kind - becoming bar / bat mitzva, married or the other examples you gave. A lifetime of preparation may precede it but the change happens in a moment and is forever.
There's the other kind, too. Building character, or scholarship. That's many moments that add up only over a lifetime.
We couldn't have Jewish life as we know it with only one of those kinds.
You are so right. Perhaps it’s also the moment to moment change that comes each time we turn toward the performance of a good deed, instead of its opposite.
Wonderful. Every word and each space between those words. In those moments when you pick that guitar and simply cradle the instrument in your arms .....that texture comes across to me as a sonic boom. Thank You, Peter.
Each moment we are becoming something else. We are shedding what we once were. Our light of understanding illuminates the way. Yet, we must choose to take each step. Beautiful poem, Peter.
Beautiful. Beatific.
Didn't we all change forever on 10/7/23? We change with our worldviews. We change with our responsibilities. We change with our truths and our illusions, what we want and what we can't live without.
Crises show us who we are and what we care about, who our friends are and who our friends are not.
Brilliant!
Thank you for your words
Going through some hard times myself
I am a wordsmith also and couldn't of said it better myself
That was rather scary. There are people who have turned their lives around in a minute, and there are people who go step by step. But even the people who have turned themselves around in a minute, that would just be a building block. Your illustration of the tuned guitar is something to ponder. So thank you. And as one observant Jew to another, you know what it says who is he who is wise one who learns from all.
Sometimes it just happens and we realize it means everything and also means nothing in our life. As Brian Wilson said (in one of the few songs he wrote that he created the lyrics for) "I'm a Cork in the Ocean". Or as George Harrison said "Life Goes On Within & Without You".
I'm feeling very humble today.
gives me pause.
So very true. Thank you, Peter!