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walking three miles on the level.
Thomas Jefferson was a good
equestrian but he thought walk-
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ing was the better exercise. In
his day, there was the horse
mania, just as today, there is an
automobile mania. Jefferson de
plored it. He said walking was a
better exercise than horse back
riding. The Indian walking could
outlast the horse, according to
Jefferson.
There are, of course, those who
don’t like to walk. When the
Rabbi of Wolosin was urged to
take a walk, he replied, “What’s
the use. I will have to return.”
But even he, it will be noted,
was not opposed to walking but
to returning, when he would have
to sit.
The Neschitzer Rabbi said that
walking was a religious obliga
tion, since it is written in the
Bible that we must think of God,
when we sit in our homes and
also when we walk by the way-
side.
The indoors breeds neuroses and
stagnation. In the open, we be
come members of the whole hu
man family. The Khlemer Mag-
gid onoe recalled the many ac
quaintances he met walking. “I
meet a cow,” he said, “and she
says, ‘good morning, you know
I am the one who gives you
milk,’ and then I meet the
chickens and they say, ‘good
morning, sir, how do you like my
eggs,’ and I meet the goat and
he says, ‘good morning, I notice
you’ve got 'a beard like mine’.”
In the open we meet the trees
and flowers and they talk to us
in their language — a language
that all humanity understands
without instruction. The Hasidim
and particularly its great leader,
the Baal Shem Tov, owed much
of his inspiration to his habitual
long walks.
The Mezeritzer Maggid said he
learned the melody of his famous
hymn in the Hagadah, “The
Mighty in His Kingdom,” from
a shepherd. He liked to walk
among the shepherd, he said, and
listen to their tunes.
We recall David, another
shepherd who liked to walk
among green pastures and sing
songs.
The automobile has made all of us
sitters and perhaps this is res
ponsible for a good deal of the
restiveness of our day. We sit
when we go outside, in our cars
and when we come into the
house; we sit watching television.
The human constitution can’t
stand that much sitting.
Sitting is supposed to be rest
ful, but nothing can be so tiring
as too much rest.
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