Today's the Sabbath. Like most people, I observe it in a wavy-lines-rule way; I'll go online, but I won't go in the car. There are some things I won't do in the spirit of their being work, though I don't follow a strict halachic definition. If I get out of bed early enough, I like to go to Synagogue, although the only Synagogue in walking distance is the One I Don't Go To. But the spirit of a day of rest is important to me; I try and talk less on the phone, too, and just be in the present and other such alternative/yoga style stuff that I generally feel ambivalent about.
Now I read that you can have a data sabbath. And there's a not-very-interesting discussion of it on metafilter.
What's rest and what's real, I wonder? Being Jewish is very much about context, for me, anyway. So I think I get more out of collective observance. Am I still Jewish if don't do that stuff anymore?
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