Rosh Hashanah
The shofar blasts don’t enter through the mind as something to think about, but through the body as something to sense, a visceral experience of God.
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Amidst all the words of prayer on Rosh Hashanah, the wordless shofar jolts us awake out of our cognitive slumber, helping us return to a preverbal place inside us that knows what matters. In this meditation, we explore that experience. Photo by Gleive Marcio Rodrigues de Souza at Pexels
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“And the two of them walked on together,” Avraham and Yitzhak, each of us and our young ones, and God”s shining face upon us. (Click image to read more)
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In this meditation, I offer a reading of the Akedah (the Binding of Isaac) from the lens of the inner child, focusing on two pivotal moments in the text — the first, when Avraham and Yitzhak “walk together” and the second, when Avraham binds up his son. We explore these in terms of our own
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I am struck once again by the word teshuva, that it does not literally mean repentance or change or self improvement. it means return. To return to God. It turns out that what God wants most from you is not perfection but relationship, just to be with you as you are. The Truest Yearning
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In this meditation, we look at teshuva as “return” with its emphasis on relationship and connection as opposed to self improvement, considering that perhaps God’s primary desire is simply to be with us, that it is the connection itself that is the goal, and in all our focus on fixing ourselves we lose sight of
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Unbind the Yitzhak, the Laughter, the aliveness. (Click image to read more)
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Unbind the Yitzhak, the Laughter, the aliveness. (Click here to read more and to listen)
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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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This is not the Tashlich that God wants. (Click image to read more)
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