Ki Tissa: Working with Fire
Ki Tissa: Working with Fire
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This week’s Torah portion is Ki Tissa: Working with Fire.
Stillness. In the case of this week’s and next week’s parsheot, that stillness is represented in the commandment to observe Shabbat. On Shabbat, – the holiest of holy days – kindling fires are prohibited. God seems to tell us that before we act, we must learn to sit it in the middle of our lives– even if they are filled with the heat of anxiety or desire. We sit there and practice our muscle of not grabbing the easy way out.
About the Author
Special thanks to Yael Shy and our friends at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality for joining us in creating weekly Shabbat moments for your Friday nights.
Yael Shy is the CEO of Mindfulness Consulting, LLC, where she teaches and consults on mindfulness for universities, corporations, and private clients around the world. She is the author of the award-winning book, What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (Parallax, 2017), and the founder of Mindful NYU, the largest campus-based mindfulness initiative in the US. Yael is a graduate of the IJS Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training Certification.
