Why Vacation?
We’ve just returned from spending 12 days in New York, where we celebrated Esty’s brother’s wedding.
So here are just a few of the differences we noticed between Bellaire and Brooklyn:
1. The customer service in Brooklyn is primitive.
2. The air is much clearer in Brooklyn – we had a 12 day reprieve from all sinus related pressures. (New York air? I know... I never would have thought.)
3. Everyone in New York seems Jewish (Mendel's observation.)
Obviously there are many differences, some we love, some we laugh about, and some make us long for the other, but at the end of the day Bellaire is home.
Most of us will be taking some time out in the coming weeks or months. We all need a change of scenery now and then, to remove ourselves from the day-to-day routine and to relax, so we can than return home and re-embrace our mission, invigorated and refreshed, ready to carry on and even take on more than before.
Let us remember though, our purpose in life is to make a difference for ourselves, our family and our community, first and foremost in the very place where G-d has ordained that we should call home. Going on vacation gives us the opportunity to enhance and improve how effective we will be back at home.
Some people are planning their next vacation the day they return from the previous one. But that approach does not allow us to completely be home when we need to be home, our mind is already in Vail or the Bahamas. We don’t work so we can go on vacation; we vacation so we can get back to work!
Safe travels and see you soon,
Rabbi Yossi Zaklikofsky