I have been thinking about riptides, those powerful currents in the sea that take you further and further away from the shore and from safety.  If you fight them and… Read more: ESSAY: Floating Down The River With Moshe (Parashat Shemot)

In this meditation, we explore the image of Moshe floating down the river to salvation and feel into what it would be like to surrender and trust and let go… Read more: MEDITATION: Floating down the River With Moshe (Parashat Shemot)

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)