{"id":61962,"date":"2021-06-25T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=61962"},"modified":"2021-06-25T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T09:50:08","slug":"off-the-pulpit-heart-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-heart-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: Heart Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

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The key to success was to move your hands with the egg as it arrived. If you caught it with your hands fixed the egg would almost certainly break. If you could move with it, however, you had a chance of keeping it intact.<\/p>\n

That simple action is true with relationships as well. Inflexibility breaks, movement preserves. As the Talmud instructs, \u201cone should be flexible as a reed and not unyielding as a cedar\u201d (Ta\u2019anit 20b). Hearts can be broken against a wall; but softness and kindness can cradle them, as the egg in one\u2019s hand, and keep them whole.<\/p>\n

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

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