Make like a desert and become hefker, ownerless. A midrash on the start of our parsha suggests that in order to recieve the Torah, we need to do just that, become as hefker — as free from being owned — as the desert in which the Torah was given (Bamidbar Rabbah 1:7). In this meditation, […]
MEDITATION: What Owns You And How To Let Go (Parashat Bamidbar) Read More »
Letting all the thoughts and plans and worries swirl around as you rest in your shabbat place, the place of stillness deep inside you that is always at peace.
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If we are looking for fear, fear will be everywhere. But if we decide that what we are looking for is God, then God is everywhere.
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It is precisely into this space of impossibility that God enters.
All is right with you when you are with yourself like this.
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What would it feel like to take seriously that God wishes to connect to us, that God desires us, and to open to receiving that love?
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Moving your seat so you are no longer identified with the moving, branches, but instead with the trunk of the tree, still, rooted and at peace.
MEDITATION: Shabbat and Our Inherent Value (Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei) Read More »
The remembrance of Shabbat is in and of itself the erasure of Amalek.
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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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You are the vessel of that healing energy.
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