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When he was old and had been a famous poet for a long time, Thomas Stearns Eliot thought that he could fold time in on itself. His last collection of poems, <\/span>Four Quartets<\/span><\/i>, has an eddying, tidal motion to it, with events echoing and repeating. It sounds like a mantra, and it portrays the world as composed of returning and recurring truths. It measures \u201ctime not our time,\u201d the deep and abiding cadences of a world for which we are ephemera. <\/span><\/p>\n

The East Coker section of the poem relentlessly repeats \u201cin my end is my beginning,\u201d as if to wish away the long and short of time\u2019s passage altogether. The distance from beginning to end is where plot happens, and where a life transpires. If the two are the same, we are in the realm of the prophetic or eternal. Forget nothing new transpiring under the sun; if its rising is the same, we live in the glare of an ever-waxing twilight.<\/span><\/p>\n

This week\u2019s chapter outlines the Jewish understanding of time. It begins with Shabbat, the one day of the week that gives it tincture and purpose. The week is a granular unit of time that is nevertheless feels like a journey in miniature, that adds up to an arc. Palimpsestically, this kind of time is layered on top of other ways of wending through our allotment- the month-based holidays like Pesach, Rosh Hashana, Sukkot, and Shemini Atzeret and the individual notching of days that brings us through the Omer and to Shavuot. <\/span><\/p>\n

These markings of time overlap, like a symphony made of subtly different beats. They speak to the human need for consistency and differentiation, exception embedded within routine. When joined to the larger demarcations of Shemitah and Yovel, the year of release and the jubilee, they present life as a whole host of endings and beginnings, jostling us along, day to day.<\/span><\/p>\n

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