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become the first member of 
the covenantal family to build 
a house, yet he does not call 
the place “house” (as in Bet-
El or Bet-lechem). He calls it 
“cattle-sheds.” It is as if Jacob, 
consciously or unconsciously, 
already knew that to live the 
life of the covenant means to 
be ready to move on, to travel, 
to journey, to grow.
One might have thought 
that all this applied only to 
the time before the Israelites 
crossed the Jordan and 
entered the Promised Land. 
Yet the Torah tells us other-
wise: “The land shall not be 
sold in perpetuity because the 
land is Mine: you are strang-
ers and temporary residents 
as far as I am concerned” 
(Lev. 25:23).
If we live as if the land is 
permanently ours, our stay 
there will be temporary. If 
we live as if it is only tempo-
rarily so, we will live there 
permanently. In this world 
of time and change, growth 
and decay, only God and 
His word are permanent. 
One of the most poignant 
lines in the book of Psalms 
— a verse cherished by the 
French-Jewish philosopher 
Emmanuel Levinas — says, 
“I am a stranger on earth. 
Do not hide your commands 
from me” (Ps. 119:19). To 
be a Jew is to stay light on 
your feet, ready to begin the 
next stage of the journey, 
literally or metaphorically. 
An Englishman’s home is his 
castle, they used to say. But 
a Jew’s home is a tent, a tab-
ernacle, a sukkah. We know 
that life on Earth is a tempo-
rary dwelling. That is why we 
value each moment and its 
newness.
Recently, a distinguished 

British Jew, (Lord) George 
Weidenfeld, died at the age 
of 96. He was a successful 
publisher, a friend and confi-
dant of European leaders, an 
inveterate fighter for peace 
and a passionate Zionist. 
In 1949-50, he was political 
adviser and Chief of Cabinet 
to Chaim Weizmann, first 
president of Israel. One of his 
last acts was to help rescue 
20,000 Christian refugees 
fleeing from ISIS in Syria. 
He was alert and active, even 
hyperactive, to the very end of 
a long and distinguished life.
In an interview with The 
Times on his 92nd birthday he 
was asked the following ques-
tion: “Most people in their 
90s slow down. You seem to 
be speeding up. Why is that?” 
He replied, “When you get 
to 92, you begin to see the 
door about to close. I have so 
much to do before the door 
closes that the older I get, the 
harder I have to work.” That 
is a good formula for staying 
young.
Like our bodies, our souls 
were not made for sitting still. 
We were made for moving, 
walking, traveling, learning, 
searching, striving, growing, 
knowing that it is not for us 
to complete the work but 
neither may we stand aside 
from it. In Judaism, as the 
book of Exodus reminds us 
in its closing words, even 
an encampment is called a 
journey. In matters spiritual, 
not just physical, sitting is the 
new smoking. 

The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan 

Sacks served as the chief rabbi of 

the United Hebrew Congregations of 

the Commonwealth, 1991-2013. His 

teachings have been made avail-

able to all at rabbisacks.org. This 

essay was written in 2016.

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