Daily Rambam

Mishneh Torah, Sanctification of the New Month 4 · Beginner voice, Standard

August 3, 2026

Hook

Ever feel like your life is completely run by glowing screens, digital notifications, and artificial deadlines? We look at our smartphones to see what day it is, what hour it is, and where we need to be. We rush from meeting to meeting, sometimes completely detached from the physical world outside our windows. It is remarkably easy to live in a temperature-controlled bubble, totally unaware of the moon's shape in the night sky or the budding of the trees in our local parks.

But what if ancient spiritual wisdom had a built-in antidote to this modern, artificial disconnect?