How To Have Balance
By zevi770 · December 10, 2016
The Answer
The reason there is tension is because we have two drives – like the flame striving upward yet being held to the candle attached by a rope – we fluctuate between our ideals and our obligations (not to mention our desires) – only when you place purpose as your priority… – and built into Judaism is balance (this is an exceptionally difficult tightrope – but Shabbos is a day of bliss, the weekdays, effort – and then there is the Shabbos of the weekday: morning prayer and Torah study and good deeds which help give lift to the mundane)