A CALL TO AWAKEN FROM SPIRITUAL SLUMBER

In the book, Gates of Repentance, Moses Maimonides, a famous Jewish Rabbi of the middle ages, iterates a call for people to awaken from spiritual slumber.

Awake, you sleepers, from your sleep! Rouse yourselves, you slumberers, out of your slumber! Examine your deeds, and turn to God in repentance. Remember your creator, you who are caught up in the daily round, losing sight of eternal truth; you are wasting your years in vain pursuits that neither profit nor save. Look closely at yourselves; improve your ways and your deeds. Abandon your evil ways, your unworthy schemes, every one of you! (Yad Hichot Teshuva 3:4)