{"id":282,"date":"2008-07-07T22:45:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T22:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2010-07-23T20:14:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T01:14:45","slug":"282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"A lesson in discipline, down time, respect and divine connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Some of us cynics say that &#8216;the quickest way to make a million dollars in photography, is to start with two million dollars.'&#8221; \u2014 <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Anonymous<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> <\/span>Saturday afternoon we found ourselves at Al Simon&#8217;s 70th birthday celebration at Beth El Ner Tamid Synagogue. I managed to see and document two moments of fine light before being told that I cannot do this &#8220;work&#8221;\u00a0in the temple\u00a0during Shabbat. I did not understand this rebuke. Pushing a tiny button in response to beautiful light is &#8220;work?&#8221; I think not. After-the-fact research and dialogue brought understanding. A\u00a0kind, Jewish acquaintance offered,\u00a0&#8220;One should not try to view any of this from a rational perspective. It is a discipline.&#8221; A web site added this insight, &#8220;Working on Shabbos\u2026 means doing creative acts that manipulate nature\u2026 When G-d rested on the seventh day\u2026 He rested in the sense that He ceased creating. We must do the same.&#8221; Aha! Not a silly &#8220;rule;&#8221; rather, a discipline to help one connect with the divine. I get it. Respect and honor discipline (including the discipline to continuously learn from and about others).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click images for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1003053large.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/l1003053large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/l1003053large.jpg\" alt=\"l1003053large.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1003051large.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/l1003051large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/l1003051large.jpg\" alt=\"l1003051large.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Later: While walking with Sophia on her Radio Flyer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1003057large.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/l1003057large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/l1003057large.jpg\" alt=\"l1003057large.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1003059large.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/l1003059large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/l1003059large.jpg\" alt=\"l1003059large.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And still later: Popcorn and video.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1003069large.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/l1003069large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/l1003069large.jpg\" alt=\"l1003069large.jpg\" width=\"656\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1003070large.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/l1003070large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/l1003070large.jpg\" alt=\"l1003070large.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Some of us cynics say that &#8216;the quickest way to make a million dollars in photography, is to start with two million dollars.&#8217;&#8221; \u2014 Anonymous Saturday afternoon we found ourselves at Al Simon&#8217;s 70th birthday celebration at Beth El Ner Tamid Synagogue. I managed to see and document two moments of fine light before being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,32,27,19,34,17,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-events","category-family-and-friends","category-hand-made","category-people","category-photography","category-travel","category-self-expression","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}