Maybe you thnk – but the world is drowning, what right do I have to rest in this ark of comfort and love? I believe you not only have a right, but an obligation, that it is a form of activism.

We enter Noah’s ark amidst the storm, experiencing the safety, the calm, the rest, the light and the care. We then consider how we might become such a sanctuary, such a light ourselves.

As if you are a newborn baby being laid gently in the comfy padded crib prepared for you. So it was in the Garden of Eden.

What if the Garden of Eden is a state of mind? A state of mind that we can learn to cultivate and inhabit. What if it is not God who… Read more: MEDITATION: Returning To The Garden of Trust (Parashat Breishit)

No one can ever take that away from you. It’s a tiny portable sukkah in your pocket, this knowledge that God is with you.

It’s not so much protection as accompaniment.