ESSAY: Grace (Yom Kippur)
It’s almost like amidst all of our chest beating and confessions of fault and wrongdoing, God has a secret joke. And that secret joke is grace.
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Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur
MEDITATION: Grace (Yom Kippur)
Yom Kippur offers us, through the 13 attributes, a frame of divine grace. In this meditation, we explore what it feels like to enter that frame, to experience God as still holding us even as we are honest about our shortcomings, and to begin to inhabit those qualities ourselves.
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MEDITATION: Resting In God’s Healing Waters (Yom Kippur)
In this meditation, we explore the tradition that God is our mikvah, our ritual cleansing bath, on Yom Kippur, imagining all the prayer words and songs as water that we can immerse in, letting go of all our efforting and resting in God’s healing waters. Image by Pixabay at Pexels
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ESSAY: Resting In God’s Healing Waters (Yom Kippur)
Stop running around and getting in the way of your own healing with all your efforts. Just step into the mikvah and float. (Click image to read more)
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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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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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