Excerpted from The Final Exam by Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, ©2023:
Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner was once asked for advice by a student who felt he was living a dual life, one at home in the religious world and one at work in a secular society. He could not live with the dichotomy. Rabbi Hutner answered that someone who has two houses with two wives and two families is living a double life, while one who has multiple rooms in the same house is not leading a double life, but a unified life with multiple facets. The point that Rabbi Hutner was making is that one muse contextualize one's entire life as avodat hashem, heavenly service in all of its aspects. One's whole life should be viewed in the context of Torah, so that it should appear unified and whole.
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