MEDITATION: Shabbat As The Antidote To Amalek (Parashat Zachor and Purim)
The remembrance of Shabbat is in and of itself the erasure of Amalek.
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Meditations
MEDITATION: Carrying God Through The World Inside You (Parashat Terumah)
We notice our own habitual desperate turn outwards and practice turning inwards instead to relax into the place of divine abiding calm planted inside us.
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MEDITATION: Clearing Space For Divine Connection (Parashat Yitro)
You are the vessel of that healing energy.
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MEDITATION: Pride Is a Virtue, In God and In Us (Parashat Beshalach)
In this meditation, we explore the positive aspects of ga’avah, pride, looking at the phrase from the Song at the Sea ki ga’o ga’ah, meaning that God has risen up and up or has become more and more proud, from the root ga’ah, to be proud. We explore how it would feel to imitate this
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MEDITATION: You, Your Inner Child and God: Learning to Be Strong (Parashat Bo)
In this meditation, we look at the Torah’s injunctions to “tell your child” about the exodus story as a model for how to tend to our inner child’s emotional and spiritual needs. We consider how to unblend from your inner child so that you can set up such a dialogue and how the message of
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MEDITATION: Letting Go Into God’s Healing (Parashat Va’era)
I can’t. You (God) can. I will let You. Surrendering and opening to God’s healing energies inside us.
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MEDITATION: I am Who I Am (Parashat Shemot)
Maybe God’s “I am who I am” offers a response to Moshe’s — and our — feelings of inadequacy.
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MEDITATION: Your Intrinsic Value (Chanukah)
In this meditation, we look at the prohibition against making use of the Chanukah light and consider how it invites us into an intrinsic orientation towards value instead of a utilitarian one. We apply that to ourselves and our own light, exploring what it would mean to really believe in our own intrinsic divine value,
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MEDITATION: Shedding Coats Like Yosef (Parashat Vayeshev)
Who are you without that external coat of specialness and superiority? Underneath, what Yosef found, was God and his own divine core.
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MEDITATION: Coming Into Wholeness Through Alone Time (Parashat Vayishlach)
In this meditation, we look at Yaakov’s night levad, alone, the night before he meets Esav and consider what he learned from that night of wrestling with himself and God, how he came into some greater awareness of his own separateness and completeness through a “face to face” connection with God. We consider our own
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