When we are really struggling, how do we move out of a place of stuckness?  How do we find the resources to emerge, not to keep getting sucked down into… Read more: ESSAY: The Angel That Redeems You (Parashat Vayechi)

We cannot redeem ourselves through our ordinary human capacities. Redemption only comes through surrender to the divine plane, to the angel that is always waiting to redeem us. In this… Read more: MEDITATION: The Angel That Redeems You (Parashat Vayechi)

Yosef is given a special coat by his father, a kutonet pasim, a fine striped tunic, as a symbol of his status as his father’s favorite, most beloved child (Genesis… Read more: ESSAY: It Is My Brothers That I Seek (Parashat Vayeshev)

In this meditation, we look at issues of superiority and inferiority in the Yosef story and our own tendencies to live through the lens of constant comparison to others. And… Read more: MEDITATION: It Is My Brothers That I Seek (Parashat Vayeshev)

The sun shone for him, for Yaakov. It shines for you, too. Rest in that loving light. It was made for you, to heal you. (Click image to read more)

After Yaakov wrestles with the angel, injuring his hip, the next morning the Torah says, vayizrach lo hashemesh, “the sun shone for him” (Genesis 32:32). The midrash explains that the… Read more: MEDITATION: The Sun Shines For You (Parashat Vayishlach)