EPISODE 8: SHABBAT AS LONG AS YOU NEED Shabbat is more than a day of the week, it’s a state of being. May marks Mental Health Awareness Month, and as many manage mental struggles and fear the world will speed back up before they’re ready, permission to go slow is important.
If you fear that going slow makes you lazy
Drawing on wisdom from the animal kingdom and the ancient ritual of
Or that the world will re-emerge before you’re
Shabbat rest, this 90-sec video will feature a spoken word love note (by
ready
award-winning poet Charly Jaffe) to anyone who struggles with feeling worthy
If you don’t want to It embrace areminder past life’s fastthat they and whole while going slow. is a heartfelt to viewers deserve pace
to take their time. The episode will feature digital, visual art
(illustrated by @heatherschiederillustrates_) and musical accompaniment by
Remember
Broadway's Andrew Resnick that aligns with the themes of pause, rest, and nature.
Worthiness is not a place you can run to Not a stock that drops with your activity You are not a productivity machine But a living, breathing, beautiful being We don’t speed up the snake as its skin is still shedding Or tell the bear to hustle while it’s hibernating No one blames the caterpillar for the way it cocoons And you, mighty human, deserve to take your time too. Whether you’ve gone inward to grow new wings OneTable’s 12-month PAUSE series is produced by Emmy, Grammy, and Outer Critics Circle award winner Adam Kantor.beaten On the first Friday each month, Or been up by of winter PAUSE highlights creators while providing rich discussion regarding the perks of
your big win just surviving
making the effort to #takeaPAUSE. With talent like Beanie Feldstein, Tan France, Shoshana Bean, Ari Shapiro, Roxane Gay, Daniel Watts & more, PAUSE asks and
You were always worthy, answers the question: What can
we gain from taking a PAUSE?
don’t need to prove a thing. Rest can be a mighty resistance You’re already holy, simply for existing.
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