What does God do all day?
The Talmud in Tractate Avodah Zarah takes this question seriously. The rabbis laid out a detailed twelve-hour schedule. During the first three hours, God sits and studies Torah. During the second three hours, God judges the entire world. During the third three hours, God feeds every living creature, from the largest beast to the smallest insect. And during the fourth three hours—the final quarter of the day—God sits and plays with Leviathan, the great sea monster.
But this was the schedule before the Temple was destroyed. Since the destruction, the Talmud says, God no longer plays with Leviathan during those final hours. Instead, God teaches Torah to schoolchildren. The shift is staggering: the God who once wrestled with a primordial sea creature now spends His afternoons tutoring young students.
The same passage includes a remarkable courtroom scene at the end of days. The nations of the world will stand before God and demand: "Give us another chance with the Torah." God will offer them one commandment as a test—the mitzvah of sukkah, sitting in a temporary booth. They will build their booths eagerly. Then God will make the sun blaze with unbearable heat. The nations will kick their booths in frustration and storm out.
The Talmud objects: but Jews are also exempt from sukkah when it causes suffering! The answer: true, a Jew is allowed to leave a sukkah that causes discomfort. But a Jew would never kick it on the way out.
The passage weaves together cosmic theology and intimate detail. God has a daily routine. God mourns the Temple. God tutors children. And the difference between devotion and rejection is not whether you leave the booth—it is whether you kick it.