Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Elusive Kavanah
My Kavanah got up and went. There is a certain detachment as I observe the proceedings on shabbos morning. There is a lot of keva, or set time to do something, and not a lot mental or spiritual immersion into what goes on around me. It's not really boredom, more a lost opportunity to be doing something else. Embracing-Engaging-Enriching, the congregation's logo, has not been what I think of in the chapel on shabbos morning or at kiddush afterwards. It's not work, not that I would want to be at work instead. It's not recreation, there being ample other times for that. It's not ruach, at least for me. As I stare at some of the other people there, it may not be ruach for them either, though I never took a poll. The Board or Ritual Committee probably never took a poll either. Attendance speaks for itself, at it has stabilized though never expanded. That's probably a decent surrogate poll.
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