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Life C ach JULY 21, 2022 | The Jewish Home
Some Helpful Feedback Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., LMFT, CLC, SDS
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fast day? Seriously, how can they call it that? I think that may be the most popular, one word oxymoron. How slow does any fast day go? I think it feels slow before it even starts. It even feels slow just thinking about it weeks in advance. The only fast part of any fast day is how quickly you want to run through the kitchen! No one wants the urges, the aromas, or the temptations to threaten to compromise their already weak commitment.
What I meant was recognizing that often the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, therefore, we have to be careful not to make the same mistakes our ancestors did. Wait, did I just do it again? Mention food? Writing an article is dangerous on a fast day. I feel like I’m walking on eggshells. Whoops…. One would think, if you focus, it would be easy as pie to stay away from food terms. Oh my gosh, I think I keep getting
It even feels slow just thinking about it weeks in advance.
So, what are we supposed to be busy with? Thinking how we can do things differently. Looking back at what got us into hot water in the first place. Oh! I’m sorry I mentioned water. You should be fasting. You see, I meant learning not to cry over spilt milk but rather thinking how to be more careful of our actions next time. Oh now! Did I mention a drink again?
myself into a pickle. I keep trying to dig myself out of this, and instead, I feel like my goose is getting cooked. Maybe I can just ask you to bear with me. After all, maybe I have food subliminally stuck in my subconscious, so please take the article with a grain of salt. Really, I’m just trying to bring out a point here. And that point is that on a fast day,
Rivki Rosenwald is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist working with both couples and individuals and is a certified relationship counselor. Rivki is a co-founder and creator of an effective Parent Management of Adolescent Years Program. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or at rivkirosenwald@gmail.com.
since we can’t break it up with meals, we need to have a focus on the meaning of the day. Especially, because it takes it’s time passing. And we don’t want to just keep thinking of food. We need to take the time to remember, for instance, that this is the time the walls of Jerusalem were surrounded, and we had failed to behave as the Jews we
could’ve and should’ve. We were, sadly, barricaded in and locked in by an army, and the source of was our food was cut off. Kind of like a fast day! So, the proof is in the pudding: if you don’t monitor your behavior, you wind up starving, and that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
