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.

It’s almost like amidst all of our chest beating and confessions of fault and wrongdoing, God has a secret joke. And that secret joke is grace.

Yom Kippur offers us, through the 13 attributes, a frame of divine grace. In this meditation, we explore what it feels like to enter that frame, to experience God as still holding us even as we are honest about our shortcomings, and to begin to inhabit those qualities ourselves.