Rachel Anisfeld
Torah and Inner Work
- ESSAY: Rest Is Not Secondary (Parashat Behar-Bekhukotai)We say we love rest. But do we? Why does everything else seem to take priority over rest then? This week, I’d like to take a hard look at our relationship to rest.
- MEDITATION: Rest Is Not Secondary (Parashat Behar-Bekhukotai)Letting all the thoughts and plans and worries swirl around as you rest in your shabbat place, the place of stillness deep inside you that is always at peace.
- ESSAY: Proclaiming Holiness (Parashat Emor)One angel says to the other: See that flower? Holy! And the other angel calls back: See that human walking the street? Holy! “Holy! Holy! Holy!” What if we did that, too?
- MEDITATION: Proclaiming Holiness (Parashat Emor)If we are looking for fear, fear will be everywhere. But if we decide that what we are looking for is God, then God is everywhere.
- ESSAY: From Vengeance To Divine Love (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim)Become that love. You were born to be that.
- MEDITATION: Divine Love As The Antidote to Revenge (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim and Yom Ha’atzmaut)It is precisely into this space of impossibility that God enters.





