Reflections on where wisdom lives in the body.
For years I thought rest meant stopping. Then I started practicing tai chi on Shabbat morning — not the martial forms, but the standing. And I understood: Shabbat isn’t absence of movement.
ReflectionThere is a particular softening of the jaw that happens before a wise response. Both the Sages and the tai chi masters have been pointing at it for millennia, in different languages.
ReflectionThe word neshama — soul — shares its root with breath. Long before language, before thought, before prayer, there is the inhale. It may be the oldest teaching either tradition carries.