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Yom It’s a Keeper by Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS
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Yom It’s a Keeper
By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., LMFT, CLC, SDS
What an awesome day!
How often do we actually get the resolve to avoid the kitchen?! It’s almost like that room has a magnetic pull. We keep renovating and making kitchens bigger and bigger. And living rooms are getting smaller and smaller.
Because, of course, real family living seems to take place in the kitchen. Children are nurtured there. Homework is done there. Even shidduchim are made there. And so are soups, salads, sides, and too much sugary stuff!
So, a day out of there becomes a gift.
Although most family bonding and growth occurs there, somehow so does too much other growth – the fridge finds you, the cereal cabinet calls to you, and the pantry pulls you in.
There is no caloric escape. It seems that when you are hanging out
with family, you are hanging out with food.
Except, on Yom Kippur.
That’s the one day you can actually walk into the kitchen and feel a different gravitational pull. The weight of the day refutes the weight that usually confronts you there.
Yom Kippur is that day where we leave the heat of the kitchen to feel a much more pressing “heat” upon us.
Yom Kippur may be expressed as that day where our passions for gaining fulfillment through our mouths “literally” is replaced with gaining fulfillment through our mouths “liturgically.” It’s the day we connect to G-d, not just through a prayer before and after eating as usual but rather through a continuous prayer that replaces the eating.
And amazingly, connecting to our Creator fills us even more on that day.
Yes, this day is a keeper. Our “Yom Keeper.”
It’s such a grand opportunity to unload rather than to load up. To lighten the feeling of being weighed
down, rather than to add it up.
It’s the day to dabble in food for thought and not food for our bellies.
May we all fill up on this form of satiation! And may we all get out of the frying pan and into the fire of rejuvenation, forgiveness, and passion for living.
Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relation-
ship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com.
