ESSAY: The God Who Desires Our Aliveness (Rosh Hashanah)
Unbind the Yitzhak, the Laughter, the aliveness. (Click image to read more)
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Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah
MEDITATION: The God Who Desires Our Aliveness (Rosh Hashanah)
Unbind the Yitzhak, the Laughter, the aliveness. (Click here to read more and to listen)
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ESSAY: Tashlich, Hagar and Your Inner Child (Rosh Hashanah)
She cast aside the crying boy under a bush and turned away. This is not the Tashlich that God wants from us. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Tashlich, Hagar and Your Inner Child (Rosh Hashanah)
This is not the Tashlich that God wants. (Click image to read more)
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ESSAY: Avraham’s (And Our) Moment of Pivoting (Rosh Hashanah)
To stop the momentum of the habits of a lifetime and to open to the whisper of love on the breeze that keeps repeating your name, asking you to choose life. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Avraham’s (And Our) Moment of Pivoting (Rosh Hashanah)
In this meditation, we focus on one moment in the story of the Akedah, the moment when Avraham hears God’s second call and pivots, deciding not to offer his son up as a sacrifice. (Click image to read more)
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Link to JOFA’s High Holiday Collection
Click on the image to get to a link to purchase Shema Bekolah: The High Holiday Collection. Included are four of my essays along with many other thoughtful and inspiring writings.
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POEM: Teshuva Also Means Response
how can you inhabit these weary limbs, this upended life . . . (click image to read more)
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QUICK THOUGHT: Listening to the Shofar Inside (Rosh Hashanah)
This is how God speaks to human beings. Maybe the shofar’s wordless sounds come to teach us to honor the inarticulate strrings inside us that have come to heal us and bring us home. (Click image to read more)
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QUICK THOUGHT: From Judgment to Compassion (Rosh Hashanah)
On Rosh Hashanah, God is described as making a shift — moving from the throne of judgment to throne of compassion. Perhaps our teshuva can be modeled on God’s. (Click image to read more)
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