Spiritual Check Up
1:30pm The streets of Jerusalem are now quiet. The shops and grocery stores have closed. Traffic is coming to a complete stop. To the vegetable stand clerk I inquire, "I thought there would be more people here, gathering final ingredients." "No. Now is the time of Cheshbon Nefesh - a spiritual check up. Everyone is checking their souls right now!" Right now? I paid and hurried home. No one told me that at 1pm today was when the entire country would be checking up on their spirits! I needed to catch up. ****************** 4pm And now, our apartment - Jerusalem of Mold - is as clean as it will ever be. I've showered and cleansed myself of any impurity from the Jerusalem streets. My clothing is completely white and I'm even wearing flip flops to services - my Dad would surely be appalled, but they are the only shoes I own that are not made with any leather. I think about my attempt this past week to read up and refl...
