Statement of Avodah

The Shoemaker Report is not a project I run alongside my life; it is the vessel through which my life is lived with truth, continuity, and spiritual viability. A life organized around earning money for its own sake may be materially functional, but it is spiritually untenable for me. The Shoemaker Report functions as a disciplined, accountable interface between inner avodah and daily life. It requires structure, consistency, and responsibility grounded in meaning rather than survival. The work gives my days coherence and obligation, and my inner life, in turn, sustains the work.

Because the work is ordered around meaning rather than urgency or display, it cannot be organized around scale, acceleration, or performance. Its posture is necessarily quiet and deliberate: patient labor, repair rather than performance, faithfulness rather than visibility. I am not engaged in this work because I am alive; I remain alive because I am permitted to do this work.

As such, the continuation of this work depends on quiet, defined patronage that preserves the integrity of this avodah and allows it to continue without distortion. I offer the work itself, faithfully and consistently. Whether it is worthy of support is a discernment I leave entirely to the other side.