This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1974.

Question Everything by Shira Ghura of Shira Ghura.com

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Question Everything by Shira Ghura of Shira Ghura.com

I happen to be a traditionalist in many ways.

My love tradition and see the role it plays in my personal life and in the life of my family

and in my community. But what I also believe is just as important is questioning tradition.

Does the tradition work for you? Is it still meaningful for you? Is it valuable for you?

Great, terrific, keep it. If it doesn't, I was and still am encouraging you to consider why you

are holding on to it. We recently changed the tradition of having a big festive meal at the

Passover Seder and it was actually incredibly well received. Even my 16 year old who was not happy

about this decision when I got him clear a few days before the event was actually relieved

because he was satisfied from the first course we had during the Seder. He said it was a great

decision that we made and that we should do this from now on year to year. Had I been stuck on

believing we had to keep the tradition for tradition's sake, we would have been sitting around a

big table with tons of food that would have taken hours and hours of preparation and for what?

Do you know how easy my preparations were this year? I hardly worked in the kitchen this year

besides making the soup which is a cinch. I sliced vegetables which was simple,

bought special potato chips and had pre-made french fries ready to be warmed up. It was so easy

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