Finding a middle path that allows us to savor life fully while also cultivating spiritual, emotional, and physical health is central to Jewish tradition.
On one of my first visits to my friend Barbara's Brooklyn apartment, she led me into the kitchen where her mother sat at the table. "Ma," she said, "this is my friend Edie from school." "Sit, sit, let me look at you," Mrs.
Shabbat Shuvah is the Sabbath between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. The name is derived from the opening word of the haftarah reading that urges us: Shuvah Yisrael ad Adonai Elohecha, “Return, O Israel, to the Eternal your God.”