{"id":58718,"date":"2021-01-01T16:12:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T22:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=58718"},"modified":"2021-01-01T16:12:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T22:12:31","slug":"off-the-pulpit-today-is-real-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-today-is-real-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: Today is real, too"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

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We promote this idea of provisional living \u2013 during the pandemic we say we aren\u2019t living \u2018real life.\u2019 Someone told me we should now wish one another \u201cuntil 121\u201d instead of the biblical 120 years, since 2020 does not count.<\/p>\n

But it is not so. Every day and every week and every year is equally \u2018real.\u2019 Kindergarten is as real as graduate school which is as real as raising a child or having a grandchild. The great scholar of Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem, said that Jews who waited for the Messiah were \u2018living life in deferment.\u2019 But life does not wait for those who think they can hold it in abeyance. It is real and it is now.<\/p>\n

Do not wait to live. Each day during the pandemic is as real as the days that will follow. Before you must surrender your soul back to the One who created it, live each day with the seriousness and joy and purpose for which we were made.<\/p>\n

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

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