Cleaning my desk in my bedroom. I want to stop using my laptop in bed, one of a few habits which have been keeping me from getting to bed on time. Just found a poem from a reflective writing workshop I led on Shabbos morning during Hillel Institute—a huge gathering of Hillel professionals and students—this summer.
(A Shabbos key, by the way, is for people who do not use electricity on Shabbos; participants were staying in rooms that typically are opened with electronic key cards. For Shabbos, those who requested it in advance were given a manual, metal key instead of the card.)
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Who was the girl who asked for a Shabbos key—
and who was the girl who returned it?
“I don’t need this,” I said.
“I am not as observant as I was.”A nullification of vows.
Once you give up the structure, you are in freefall.
And when you don’t believe in a god
who will catch you before you hit the bottom,
you might just lose it all.
