ESSAY: Coming Out of Hiding Into Connection (Yom Kippur)
It is not perfection that God wants from us, but connection. (Click image to read more)
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Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur
MEDITATION: Coming Out of Hiding Into Connection (Yom Kippur)
Maybe it’s not the mistake, but the moment after that counts. Adam and Eve go into hiding after they sin the Torah’s fist sin. Filled with shame, they are unable to connect to a God who continues to want to connect to them. Each Yom Kippur, we attempt to repair this rupture by coming out
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ESSAY: Day of Love, Not Judgment (Yom Kippur)
God waits patiently for us to realize how much we are loved. (Click image to read more)
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COMMENTARY: A New Guide to Viduy (Yom Kippur)
How have we sinned against ourselves? (From the archives — originally published in 2021)
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MEDITATION: Day of Love, Not Judgment (Yom Kippur)
What we find is a God who is steady with us through it all, patiently waiting for us to realize how much we are loved. (Click image to read more and listen)
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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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SHORT ESSAY: Dunk Your Shame In Hope (Yom Kippur)
God is our mikvah, says Rabbi Akiva. On Yom Kippur, we look at ourselves in all our messiness, and we place ourselves, naked and vulnerable and full of shame, into the healing waters of God . . . (Click image to read more)
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QUICK THOUGHT: What’s Not in the Viduy (Yom Kippur)
The things that cause us shame on a regular basis are not the “sins” that we are repenting for on Yom Kippur. When do we generally feel self-critical? What types of actions make us feel shame and embarrassment? Such moments of inner discomfort often come from a social situation in which we have behaved
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QUICK THOUGHT: “Lefanekha” — Before You (Yom Kippur)
Perhaps there is really only one sin, one mistake we make in a thousand different ways, and that one sin is our failure to live lefanekha, before You. (Click image to read more)
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