The Kitchen - R. Hillel Eisenberg - TorahAnytime.com

Ribbaim Kryworth, 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 Rahim 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 Raim still needed to davin 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 wall to wall with sparum a beautiful quiet room the obvious place to davin and looked at it and he said no I want a davin 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 dav 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