Documented Life http://www.documentedlife.com/log An experiment in documentary intertextuality - Miles Hochstein Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:14:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Ideas of Rest http://www.documentedlife.com/log/?p=628 http://www.documentedlife.com/log/?p=628#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:05:16 +0000 Miles Hochstein http://www.documentedlife.com/log/?p=628 These are the things they did to build the original temple. The Rabbis figured if you don’t do these 39 things, you are pretty much not working, ergo, refraining from these 39 activities constitutes the essence of Shabbat rest. All the rest is details, and there are quite a few of them.

Defining negative spaces is a way of speaking volumes. Things and actions and thoughts that are not present give rise to other things and actions and thoughts that are then able to become present.

Imagine giving each of these modern interpretations, in addition to or instead of their ancient ones. Can we identify the winnowing, the grinding, the spinning and the trapping that we do, and step back from it? Could we find a way to map all 39 paradigmatic work activities onto our own lives? It’s all about living the poetry.

Source: http://www.torahtots.com/torah/39melachot.htm

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