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We’ve talked about microhabits, and we’ve talked about daily and weekly flow.
But there’s another layer that quietly determines whether your home feels calm… or constantly overwhelming: What’s actually inside your home.
Because running a home isn’t just about managing your time. It’s about managing your inventory.
Hello Leviticus! I’m a bit nervous to take this one on. It’s chock full of really complicated laws — offerings, sacrifices, purification. It’s dense, it’s repetitive, and it’s complex. In fact, Jacob Milgrom has a three volume Leviticus commentary spanning nearly three thousand pages (!!!). (My goal is to eventually get through his work, but it certainly won’t be this year.)
Vayikra, Hebrew for “and he called” is about God calling a people into holiness, teaching them how to live with Him, now that He’s taken them out of slavery. These newly freed people need to be taught what to do with such a freedom. This weeks parsha (chapters 1-5), focuses on sacrifices and offerings, reflecting different human needs: sin and guilt, surrender, gratitude, and connection.
In last week’s post, we talked about micro-habits — the tiny behaviors that quietly keep a home running.
This week, we’re building on that foundation and talking about something just as important: how to actually structure your days and weeks without feeling overwhelmed.
Because the goal isn’t to become more disciplined. The goal is to build a rhythm that supports your life.
This week, we close out the Book of Exodus with a double parsha Vayakhel and Pekudei, as happens every so often to compress the Torah’s 54-parshas into our 52 week Gregorian calendar.
Another smooth week over here, despite the clock adjustments of the dreaded Day Light Savings. Though, now that the days are getting longer — and we’re getting small tastes of summer — our spirits are higher than ever. Which again, fittingly, mirrors the close of Exodus itself. The Israelites’ spirits are high. God is with them.
This week’s podcast episode kicks off a brand new four-part series about something that many mothers quietly struggle with: how to actually run a home in a calm and sustainable way.
Whether you live in a small apartment or a busy house full of kids, pets, and never-ending laundry, there are still daily tasks that need to happen in order for life to function smoothly. Over the years, raising four young children, I’ve realized that the difference between a home that feels chaotic and one that feels manageable often comes down to something very small.
Not big cleaning days or well done organizational systems, but tiny habits.
Hey friends! Last week we celebrated Purim, and in an effort to organize the family recipe binder I hope to pass along to my girls one day, I’m finally typing up what I’ve been making every single Purim since we became a family that needed one. This recipe is delicious, relatively easy, and has such a rich, complex flavor — I promise, your people will be impressed. You don’t have to wait until next Purim to make it, though in this economy, it stays a chag recipe for us, reserved for special occasions. One more thing: the leftovers are even better than you can imagine.