Reflections on where wisdom lives in the body.
There’s a moment in zhan zhuang — standing meditation — where the legs begin to tremble. The mind screams quit. But something deeper holds. That something is what the Torah calls emunah.
EssayPush hands teaches a distinction the dominant culture keeps missing: the difference between giving way and giving up. The parsha of Vayishlach carries the same teaching, held in Jacob’s hip.