Humanity builds awe inspiring structures, turns desert land and malaria
infested tundra into beautifully lush land. Humanity truly conquered space.
Our daily
lives revolve around navigating, negotiating, trying to hustle space.
You commute to work, traverse the country in an airplane, create structures and
build Frost’s good fences.
In pursuit of conquering space, our weeks are filled with things, the pace of our weeks dictated by our relationship to things: what Martin Buber calls the I – It relationship. Car, money, house, clothes, things.
Technology,
your lives cradled in your hands, becomes yet another thing, another tool to
conquer space. How beholden are
you to your handheld or as friend’s in business, law, and real estate term their
‘ATM?’ Imagine how your handheld
allows you to further conquer space.
Shabbat.
Shabbat is
OUR opportunity to make time holy, to forego our pursuit of conquering
space. Time to concentrate not on
our relationship with things, I-It, rather, to focus on the I-You relationship:
to engage people, not things. To
explore relationship with people not things.
Our Shabbat
theme is making time holy.
How do we make time at CSL, particularly on Shabbat, holy?
How do we make time at CSL, particularly on Shabbat, holy?
Listen to
our speakers, hear their words, feel the passion of their songs and spend the
next twenty four hours reflecting on how YOU make time holy at CSL.
David Zarkowsky
Judaic Director
