{"id":5527,"date":"2010-04-01T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:33:29","slug":"on-keeping-the-sabbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/04\/01\/on-keeping-the-sabbath\/","title":{"rendered":"On Keeping the Sabbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard a fascinating interview on Fresh Air with Judith Shulevitz as the guest.<\/p>\n<p>She has written a book about the history of the Jewish sabbath and also included a memoir about her own journey into keeping Sabbath customs. I found her lyrical and articulate, and her views impressed me. What I especially appreciate is the concept of resting as a community, and of stepping back from our attempt to manipulate and control the world for one day. <\/p>\n<p>For one day each week, the Sabbath encourages us to enter into a moment outside of ordinary time and all the cares associated with it. I can&#8217;t do her ideas justice; it&#8217;s worth a listen.<\/p>\n<p>Even for an agnostic such as me, it was worth a listen. And now I want to read the book. It resonates the way the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/03\/19\/unplug\/\">Unplug campaign<\/a> did. I found that the weekend I unplugged for one day, I felt more centered. Last weekend I did not unplug, and I felt I hadn&#8217;t even had a weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=125386822\">here<\/a> for more information and to listen to the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard a fascinating interview on Fresh Air with Judith Shulevitz as the guest. She has written a book about the history of the Jewish sabbath and also included a memoir about her own journey into keeping Sabbath customs. I found her lyrical and articulate, and her views impressed me. What I especially appreciate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,214,25,28,217,16,27,31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-domestic-arts","category-education","category-humanities","category-meditation","category-nature","category-recreation","category-social-science","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11778,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions\/11778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}