The Fall of the Manna, Anonymous, Holland, 17th century http:\/\/www.artbible.net\/1T\/Exo1601_Manna_Quails\/pages\/17%20HOLLANDAIS%20LA%20CHUTE%20DE%20LA%20MANNE.htm<\/p><\/div>\n

In the same way that the Children of Israel were expected to trust that they will be provided for one day a week without having to search for, and gather, food, we might want to take advantage of that one day a week, Shabbat, during which we need not search and collect data. Perhaps letting go of the ongoing buzz of information will enable us to consider and appreciate the actual content of those messages. In the same way that the freed slaves were instructed to take time out from their constant anxiety about their physical sustenance and savor the taste of the heavenly bread, we might want to take time out from our anxiety about our social sustenance and savor the people around us.<\/p>\n

Shabbat Shalom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you do it? Are you able to go off the grid, refrain from using Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and all the rest for just one day a week? Would you even want to? Many of us do, or at least try to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19,18,14,28,22],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n