As I awake to the shrill sound of my alarm early Saturday morning, the snooze button calls my name. With a great deal of willpower, I resist. After washing my face and eating a bowl of cereal, I get in my car and drive to my local Jewish Community Center. “If God rests on the seventh day, I should too” I tell myself in the car, but all thoughts of ambivalence fade as soon as I arrive. I scan my...

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