God’s blessings, when and if they come to Avraham, do not come easily or quickly, but with much disruption and uncertainty. The land he is promised has famine and war, and the children he is promised are slow in coming and then threatened to be taken away. It often does look to us like God’s […]
MEDITATION: Grounding In Faith In An Unredeemed World (Parashat Vayera) Read More »
How has your light, your sacred fire of hope and passion and agency, been dimmed by the storms and winds of life? How can you tend to it now and preserve it, hold it close and share it? (Click image to read more and to listen)
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And God saw that it was good. Not perfect, not complete, but still good, in and of itself, in this moment. (Click image to read more and to listen)
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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Unbind the Yitzhak, the Laughter, the aliveness. (Click here to read more and to listen)
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This is not the Tashlich that God wants. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Tashlich, Hagar and Your Inner Child (Rosh Hashanah) Read More »
This parsha is dominated by the tocheichah, a lengthy description of terrible events that will befall us if we do not follow God. At one point, in the midst of these curses, we are told that the reason they come is tahat asher lo avadeta et Hashem elokekha besimchah uvetuv levav, “because you did not
MEDITATION: Serving God With What Brings You Joy (Parashat Ki Tavo) Read More »
If you see your brother’s donkey falling down on the road from too many burdens, don’t turn away. Hakem takim imo. Lift it up together. (Deuteronomy 22:4). We all sometimes collapse from the weight of the burdens we carry. Sometimes we are the fallen ones and sometimes we are the ones helping lift someone else
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Be tamim with Hashem your God. Find the pure unblemished place inside where you are truly with Hashem your God, where you are aligned with your divine essence. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Be “Tamim”: Stay True to Yourself (Parashat Shoftim) Read More »
You are God’s children (Deuteronomy 14:1). Banim atem Lashem Elokeikhem. In this meditation, we explore what it would mean to live into this reality, to treat ourselves with the dignity and honor of a child of God. We look at the phrase that comes after this one, lo titgodedu, the prohibition against cutting yourself as
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