{"id":44189,"date":"2018-08-03T17:13:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T23:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=44189"},"modified":"2018-08-03T17:13:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T23:13:46","slug":"off-the-pulpit-how-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-how-to-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: How to Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

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In a larger sense what that wise safety maven meant is that the world can be made safer, but not safe. Having lived through both a brain tumor and lymphoma, both AFTER I began eating a vegetarian diet, I often think bemusedly about the people who reassure you that this exercise or that eating regime will guarantee longevity. It may help in many ways; I am no doctor or fitness guru. But life has more sharp edges than there are foam bumpers, more germs than soap, more falls than nets.<\/p>\n

So it is unwise to spend too much time thinking how to preserve life rather than how to live it. I haul myself to the gym and try to walk and on occasion refuse the cake. But I also try not to let my fear override my joy, and now and again to be heedless is to be alive.<\/p>\n

(Rabbi David Wolpe is the senior rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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