The Afternoon Antidote to Our Distracted Lives From the decreasing productivity of the workplace, to bad decisions by drivers leading to tragic accidents, distraction is an issue that challenges each of us and our society each and every day. One need look no further than Google (another place where we get distracted..) to see that there is an entire body of literature all focussed on trying to find solutions to this massive concern. Most of the advice actually boils down to this: In order for us to reach our potential and do “right”, we must learn to focus — to focus on the essential, important tasks from which we are distracted. But while this issue is certainly exacerbated in our digital age, our tradition was keenly aware of this challenge hundreds of years ago. This awareness is articulated in many places, and one such area is in the halakhot of Mincha, one of the tefilot whose basis is found in this week’s Parsha. Bamidbar 28:4 tells us ד אֶת-הַכֶּבֶשׂ אֶחָד, תַּעֲשֶׂה
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