'To set apart one day a week for freedom, a day on which we would not use the instruments which have been so easily tuned into weapons of destruction, a day for being with ourselves, a day of detachment from the vulgar, of independence of external obligations, a day on which we stop worshipping the idols of technical civilization...' ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

The luddites weren't against technology, only the technologies that had been used to exploit them. What technologies in our own lives have we allowed to be instruments of our own exploitation? What media and apps have we told ourselves are ok to use even as they mine our data, advertise, build up A.I. and other algorithms, and spread false information and hate between us? Are we stepping away from all forms of exploitation or have we made allowances where we shouldn't have? What does a shabbat free of exploitation, a shabbat of liberation look like to you?

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