In this meditation we consider the feeling of being, like Sarah, not at the center of the stage, how it can make us feel unimportant and secondary, like we don’t… Read more: MEDITATION: On Sarah And The Feeling Of Being Secondary (Parashat Vayera)

We think it is about meeting expectations, but maybe it is really about receiving love.

We need not be Avraham to connect to God. We can be lonely and distraught in the desert, like Hagar, runinng away from our life. We can feel ashamed and… Read more: MEDITATION: On Hagar and The Angels Who Find Us Wherever We Are (Parashat Lech Lecha)

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.