Pushkin

If you've ever read the first few books of the Hebrew Bible, then you know that there's

a lot going on.

There are sweeping tales of cruelty, slavery, and destruction.

There are plagues and floods and desert wanderings, and there are even smaller domestic stories

of bitter sibling rivalries and loving reconciliation.

People have argued about and debated this text for thousands of years.

How literally should we take the words on the page?

How should we apply the text to the modern world?

And do we really understand its true meaning?

But there's one instruction from the Torah that is crystal clear.

Take a day off.

From the very, very beginning, when the Torah first describes the making of the universe,

it clearly explains that the creator took a whole day long break from his work.

That idea of 24 hours of rest is even included as one of the ten commandments.

Now, I'm not usually one to flout the commandments, but taking a break from work isn't an instruction

that I find all that easy to observe.

And neither did Sarah Herwoods.

She and I both grew up sharing a college culture that seemed to almost frown upon enjoying

downtime.

Going to college at a school like Harvard, you know, there's almost this like cult of

hard cornice where it's like, how many almeiteres do you pull and how much work can you do

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