MEDITATION: God Is With You (Sukkot)
It’s not so much protection as accompaniment.
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Meditations
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: The Visceral Experience of the Shofar (Rosh Hashanah)
Amidst all the words of prayer on Rosh Hashanah, the wordless shofar jolts us awake out of our cognitive slumber, helping us return to a preverbal place inside us that knows what matters. In this meditation, we explore that experience. Photo by Gleive Marcio Rodrigues de Souza at Pexels
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MEDITATION: It’s So Close (Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelekh)
It is here, in this moment, as it is, as we are, that we find divine presence and peace, even in the midst of distress. Wherever we are, there God is, so close.
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MEDITATION: Becoming a Land Flowing With Milk And Honey (Parashat Ki Tavo)
Lying here in the river and letting yourself be carried along, softening, dissolving, moving from solid to liquid, becoming a flow of milk and honey.
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MEDITATION: To Love God and To Join God in Loving (Parashat Va’etchanan)
This meditation explores the ve’ahvta command — love God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. It considers first what it feels like to be that devoted to anything — to the point of offering up your life — and then asks — what does it mean to
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MEDITATION: Feeling Like God Hates You — Or You Hate Yourself (Parashat Devarim)
God doesn’t love us because we are good, but because God is good.
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MEDITATION: Here We Lay Down Together (Parashat Matot-Masei)
When you slept, I lay down with you. When you were cold, I was cold with you. When you had a headache, I saw and I cared.
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MEDITATION: The Torah That Only The Tzlofchad Women Knew (Parashat Pinchas)
What piece of God’s Torah can you see that no one else — even the wisest experts among us — can see?
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MEDITATION: Your Own Well (Parashat Chukat-Balak)
No, each of us, as a creature of God, has our own well. We come batteries included.
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