Good morning, everyone, everyone, good evening, good afternoon, wherever you are, and welcome to this week's weekly energy boost.

My name is Elie Sheva, and I am here this lovely Monday morning with not David.

David couldn't be here this morning, but in his stead, but not filling his shoes.

Filling a bigger set of shoes is my husband, Mordechi Ballas, who by popular demand was

definitely in the top, top three, I would say, requested guests to have back on the

weekly energy boost. And we're here this morning to talk about spiritual downtime.

This is a subject for me. I definitely need help. Learning about it, implementing it,

practicing it because it is definitely an area that I personally struggle with, even being on a spiritual journey for what seems like thousands of years.

It continues to be an opportunity for me to learn and to grow and to expand.

And every week on the weekly energy boost, we share the most practical and powerful wisdom and tools for our listeners to navigate the coming seven days. We do that by listing,

by looking through the wisdom of Kabbalah and picking out not only the specific wisdom and tools

that pertain to this week, but we also use our experience personal and then working with thousands

of people over the years to share that wisdom. And inevitably, the result is priceless life,

wisdom, and actionable items that you can use anytime, really. And this week, we're focusing

on the idea of spiritual downtime. You can say that

if you believe in it, if you subscribe to the, to the Bible, as we do in Kabbalah, we look at it

more as a user's manual for life. One of the interesting secrets that's written into that text is about the day of rest, right?

It says that God created the world in seven days, but it was really six days, and on the seventh day, he rested.

That's a very misunderstood concept, and one that I think is a good place to start with simply so that we can

understand when we talk about spiritual rest, it's not only sleep, and I hope we'll have time

to talk about how sleep is a part of spiritual downtime as well. But the idea that it's, you know,

our body tells us when it's tired so that we, if we listen, if we obey

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