We need not be Avraham to connect to God. We can be lonely and distraught in the desert, like Hagar, runinng away from our life. We can feel ashamed and dsiappointed in ourselves, and God will still send messengers to meet us where we are. The messengers won’t be perfect. They may say the wrong
MEDITATION: On Hagar and The Angels Who Find Us Wherever We Are (Parashat Lech Lecha) Read More »
We enter Noah’s ark amidst the storm, experiencing the safety, the calm, the rest, the light and the care. We then consider how we might become such a sanctuary, such a light ourselves.
MEDITATION: Be The Calm Amidst The Storm (Parashat Noah) Read More »
What if the Garden of Eden is a state of mind? A state of mind that we can learn to cultivate and inhabit. What if it is not God who chased us out of the garden but we who left and continue to leave? And what if we could learn to return. Photo by upenderphotography
MEDITATION: Returning To The Garden of Trust (Parashat Breishit) Read More »
It’s not so much protection as accompaniment.
MEDITATION: God Is With You (Sukkot) Read More »
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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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
MEDITATION: The Visceral Experience of the Shofar (Rosh Hashanah) Read More »
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.
MEDITATION: It’s So Close (Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelekh) Read More »
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.
MEDITATION: Becoming a Land Flowing With Milk And Honey (Parashat Ki Tavo) Read More »
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
MEDITATION: To Love God and To Join God in Loving (Parashat Va’etchanan) Read More »
God doesn’t love us because we are good, but because God is good.
MEDITATION: Feeling Like God Hates You — Or You Hate Yourself (Parashat Devarim) Read More »