My Sphere

Teaching during the week between Christmas and the New Year, driving home in the rain, the thought occurred to me again that teaching at an Orthodox Jewish school is not that different from other schools. While the focus of life may be different in a religious instituition, what draws my sphere close to theirs is that we all have that thing in our lives we hold most important, most sacred. For me, it is books in general. For them, it is their faith. But are we really that different when at the end of the day, we go home to our families and share with them what is most important to us?