UNTIL YOUR HEART PLAYS

Sometimes it's hard to notice how we get lost to ourselves in everyday life. Our world is full and overflowing with too many stimuli to count them - we feel almost obliged to achieve, experience, learn, watch. Our world is fast and ever changingTime and we, who change with it, may easily find its strength within it. Sometimes it seems that in order to survive in it we have to hold a superhuman amount of information in our heads, harden our hearts and ignore our feelings in order to be "at our peak" - whatever that means. The world may change fast, but the human soul changes slowly. She still needs our attention, patience and slowness. She needs time for reflection, processing and inclusion, time we have difficulty giving her when we are flooded almost 24/7 with stimuli and tasks. But but it is impossible to starve the soul for a long time without starting to feel unhappy, restless and unsatisfied. Our soul needs ventilation from time to time, and Rabbi Yamima Avital understood this