The Emotionally Healthy Leader by Peter Scazzero

Author:Peter Scazzero
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2015-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

Beginning about ten years ago, a rabbi friend invited me into his home again and again to experience Shabbat with his family. Shabbat always begins with a beautiful meal shared with family and friends. Prayers and blessings are said, and a relaxed evening of conversation follows — sometimes for three to four hours. The care and intentionality given to choosing the place settings, preparing special foods, and gathering of friends and family always made it feel to me more like a full-blown holiday celebration than a weekly meal. Imagine doing Thanksgiving once a week, and you’ll have an idea of what Shabbat is like.

The rabbi and his family taught me how their adherence to a rigid set of guidelines about what they can and cannot do on Sabbath served as a container that allowed them to enter into the Sabbath’s rest. For them, Shabbat is very different from the other six days of the week. Everything that distracts — and there are many distractions in our technological and information-saturated age — is put aside in favor of things like prayer, study, long walks, naps, hikes, shared meals, and meaningful conversation. There would be no time or space for such things without the protection of firm limits on the day.

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