Passover
What we most need to remember when we are down in the pit is the possibility of leaving it. (Click image to read more)
TALK: Not Just for Passover: Remembering the Exodus Every Day (Post Passover) Read More »
The seder is a place to process our suffering, our narrow straits, our Mitzrayim, in a holding container of luxury and spaciousness and protection. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION SCRIPT: For Seder Night (Passover) Read More »
What are your spritual waste products, beliefs or ideas about yourself and the world that no longer serve you, that cause you suffering and stop you from turning to yourself in love? (Click image to read more)
SHORT ESSAY: On Chametz and Spiritual Cleansing (Passover) Read More »
The seder is a place of inclusiveness because redemption requires everyone to be involved. (Click image to read more)
WOW (Word of the Week): כל: All Parts Welcome Tonight (Passover) Read More »
This is what you should teach your inner child to say: God did this for me. (Click image to read more)
QUICK THOUGHT: A Message for Your Inner Child (Passover) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the obligation to see yourself as if you personally left Egypt by understanding the leaving of Mitzrayim as the leaving of a narrow constricted emotional space and entering into merkhav Yah (based on Psalm 118 in Hallel), a place of divine expansiveness which is open and inclusive and welcoming of
MEDITATION: Moving into “Merkhav Yah” — a Place of Expansiveness (Passover) Read More »
The first commandment the Isarelites receive as a nation is to mark the new moon. In this meditation, we look at this commandment as an invitation to remember our own capacity for renewal. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Release and Renewal (Parashat HaChodesh, Passover and Parashat Bo) Read More »
We break the matzah in half, hetzi,because our hearts need to be broken open, pierced (as if by an arrow, a hetz),just a crack, enough for the winedrops of redemption to drip their slowfast way in and remake uswhole. It hurts — this breakingand our growing knowing of the broken. We are opening to oni, to onlyto lack and
POEM: Yachatz (Passover) Read More »
What if it is the “poorest” parts of ourselves that are the doorway to redemption? On Pesach we eat lehem oni, the bread of poverty and affliction. On Pesach, we hold up this flat meager bread and say — this is it. This is the portal. We normally honor only our “good” or rich
QUICK THOUGHT: “Lehem Oni”:The Portal to Redemption (Passover) Read More »
How much do we control our own destiny? Particularly at times of uncertainty and anxiety, we hold on very tight. We try so hard to make things just right so that all will be well for ourselves, our families, our community and the world. Purim celebrates these efforts. On Purim we say what Mordecai said
SHORT ESSAY: Relaxing into Trust on Seder Night (Passover) Read More »