MEDITATION: Holding Both the Fear and the Yud Inside Us (Parashat Shelach)

In this meditation, we explore the story of the scouts. We connect to the fear and the doubt that the 10 scouts and the Israelites felt. We find those places inside us that are terrified of new things, that feel like grasshoppers in some way. And then we also touch the place of the “yud” inside us — the extra letter “yud” that Yehoshua recieved in his name, a “yud” that we each have inside, a place of trust and faith and connection to God. In the meditation, we work to hold both those feelings at once, both the shakiness of the fear and the calm of the “yud.”

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