Lose the Rat Race: Thoughts for Shabbat Teshuva and Yom Kippur
Thoughts for Shabbat Teshuva and Yom Kippur
by Rabbi Marc D. Angel
Dr. Bruno Bettelheim wrote that "today's popular conviction is that life is a rat race." People have become so engrossed in the battles to get ahead materially in this world, that they tend to put aside the claims of the soul.
As we compete in the rat race, we may not even realize how thoroughly we have abandoned our inner freedom, our quest for ultimate meaning. We want to win the rat race even if it means compromising or abandoning the values that imbue life with genuine meaning.