Passover
Like green shoots peeking up through the pavement, that life force in us will not be paved over, but perists, insists. “Vehi she’amdah.” I am still here. I still stand.
ESSAY: She Still Stands (Passover) Read More »
What is your anchor when you are feeling lost and unmoored?
MEDITATION: She Still Stands (Passover) Read More »
This meditation is intended to help people relax and feel welcome and safe at the seder, to create the sense of a divine sanctuary that can hold it all, in which judgment and performance and striving fade away, and we can all float together in the effortless river of redemption. Haggadah metaphors and terms are
MEDITATION and SCRIPT: A Seder Opener (Passover) Read More »
Nobody likes to feel pain, and so it’s natural that we do everything we can to avoid it. (Click image to read more)
A Maror Intention (Passover) Read More »
We have an obligation not to view ourselves as perpetual victims. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: No Longer In Egypt (Passover) Read More »
Who is in charge inside you, Pharaoh or God? How the seder helps us take our divine power back. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Reclaim Your Power From Pharaoh (Passover) Read More »
This meditation asks the question: who is in charge inside you, Pharaoh or God? It considers the bullying, limiting, disempowering Pharaoh voices we have inside us, and looks at the Haggadah and the exodus story as a model for how God wants us to stand up to Pharaoh and reclaim our own divine power and
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When is the time that you believe redemption could happen for you? (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Right Here, In this Moment (Parashat HaChodesh) Read More »
This meditation focuses on the word hazeh, “this,” in hachodesh hazeh, “this month” (Exodus 12:2), considering how redemption and connection to God always happen in “this” moment, right now, in the present, and looking at all the ways we struggle with being present, constantly moving away from our experience. We practice being present just with
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May the space we jointly create tonight be a true “merkhav yah,” a space of divine expansiveness and inclusiveness. (Click image to read more)
PRAYER: A Prayer for the Seder Read More »