Your Kitchen Is Holier Than You Think

This Shiur is dedicated in honor  of the birthday of David Sandell.   May you continue to have and gaz  for many many birthdays to come. A Torah anytime original series. Ribbaim  Kinssworth the avdon of Antworp and one of   the great Torah leaders of his generation once  needed to make a trip to London. And he was   meant to stay at the Levvenson home, a house  famous for its hospitality, its generosity,   its endless house where the kitchen was constantly  humming, busy, prepping food to feed the stream of   people that needed it constantly. It was an open  house in the literal sense of the word. And that's   where Riim was going to stay. The problem was that  his flight was delayed and he arrived in London in   the middle of the night long after everything  had sort of quieted down. And at that point,   Rabim still needed to davan Marv. So the 11son  welcomed him into his house into their house and   they got him a sitter to dab in from and they  brought him to the study which had impressive   shelves lined wallto-all with sparum a beautiful  quiet room the obvious place to dab and looked   at it and he said no I want to dabin in the  kitchen the kitchen and he explained I want   to do it in the kitchen because the amount of that  happens there the amount of kusha created in that   room it's soaked into the walls. That's where I  want to davin. And so went to the kitchen table,   sat down, and davin mar. You see, in life,  holiness doesn't always announce itself. A   lot of time it looks ordinary. It looks like a  full schedule, a regular job, a family routine,   meals that need to be made and errands that  need to be run and no drama, no ceremony,   no obvious spirituality. And yet, that's  often where holiness lives most naturally.   Not in moments that feel elevated, but in a  life that's being lived with intention, where   ordinary actions are done honestly and kindly  and with awareness of Hashem. Holiness isn't   created by escaping the ordinary. It's created  by showing Hashem how you live inside of it.