One Minute Daily Torah Thought - Rabbi Moshe Levin

Send us a textExplain this to me: we drive on parkways and park in driveways. And there's no labor done today because today is Labor Day. Today is the birthday of the Baal Shemtov, who taught us that everything we see or hear is a message. God is giving us instructions through what we see. And I think the celebration of vacation on Labor Day is very relevant to the upcoming day of Rosh Hashanah. We call our new year Rosh Hashanah because it is not only the beginning of the year, but also the head, the source of energy for the whole year, guiding us. This year, because Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat, there's a synergistic energy in the entire coming year. The whole year is infused with Shabbat energy. The primary difference between Shabbat and the days of the week is that during the week we work, and on Shabbat we don't. But that doesn't mean we don't go to work all year; there is spiritual work and there is work work. I think we would not like being on a year-long vacation from regula