Every Moment Is Precious

Every Moment Is Precious

Mrs. Shira Hochheimer sees Shlomo Hamelech’s timeless words as a guide to improving ourselves, which will in turn improve our relationship with our spouse and our children.

Society wouldn’t function without trust. There’s a fantastic living history museum village close to our home in Rochester. It has 30 plus homes with costumed guides who reenact life before the Industrial Revolution.

In one of the homes, we’d always find the “mother” in the same spot — at the spinning wheel. Next to her was a second, smaller spinning wheel. The guide would explain that in the old days, after all the chores were done, a woman was expected to spin. Spinning is monotonous and uncreative and unending. It’s a job that was never done. And if anyone in the house had any downtime, from as young as the age of five, they were also expected to do their part.

The goal of spinning is to take fiber and turn it into thread so it can be used to create fabric.

With this background, the pasuk describing the Eishes Chayil and her spinning seems odd.