'We Have Come into Being to Praise, to Labor, and to Love.'

An abbreviated post today in respect for the holidays ...

Michael (Walzer) read the Prayer for Peace at Shabbat services Saturday. The quoted line above remains my favorite. Later in the day, as I strolled through the East Village feeling the Spring all around, I happened upon Michael, his spouse Judy, and another of our fellow congregants at a sidewalk cafe, with my latest book, which I had earlier conveyed as a gift, on the table between them. We all laughed with delight at this additional bit of delightful divine serendipity. Since the book is itself about making owners of laborers; and since the book I am writing right now is on

how to make all labor both praise and love; and since I had shared seder with Michael and Judy only two days before, I felt it all as the most marvelous Blessing - both of the work thus far and of the work that's to come. The next Yale book, World Money, is done and will be out later this year. The next one, on what I call Startup Kibbutzim, will come out next year.