[Avodah] A Day to Disconnect

Joseph Kaplan jkaplan at tenzerlunin.com
Mon Jul 8 06:07:02 PDT 2019


"They did, we critique."

Words aren't creative? How interesting. But don't tell it only to us. Tell
it to the tana'im, amora'im, rishonim, acharonim etc etc. You may say
that everything they wrote/said was truly creative and lots of what we
do is not. Ok. But there's still plenty of creativity in a world where
we think and write rather than sow and plow.

The interesting question is why that type of creativity is not included
in the forbidden work of shabbat, especially since God's creativity
during the six days of creation came about through words and not the
type of creativity in the 39 melachot.

J
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