MEDITATION: Accessing Your Own Wellspring of Nourishment (Parashat Chukat)
No, each of us, as a creature of God, has our own well. We come batteries included.
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Meditations
MEDITATION: The (Levi) Power of Company (Parashat Korach)
At long last we realize the only thing left to offer is ourselves, our presence, our company, our open loving heart. And that is enough. Not just enough, but what, it turns out, is most deeply needed.
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MEDITATION: Grounded In Your Own Authority Like Eldad and Medad (Parashat Beha’alotecha)
Zushaleh, why weren’t you Zusha? God desires, maybe even needs, us to be ourselves.
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MEDITATION: Shalom, Peace (Parashat Naso)
Feel the blanket of quiet and calm descend upon you and seep into you in this meditation on the last phrase of the priestly blessing, “May God grant you peace” (Numbers 6:26). Enjoy a story about Hillel along the way (Shabbat 31a) and a message of radical acceptance of all your (even difficult) feelings, dropping
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MEDITATION: God’s “Anokhi” And The Invitation To Claim Our Own “I” (Shavu’ot)
Shouting out from the rooftop — I am me. I am here. I matter. I take up space.
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MEDITATION: What Owns You And How To Let Go (Parashat Bamidbar)
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,
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MEDITATION: Rest Is Not Secondary (Parashat Behar-Bekhukotai)
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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MEDITATION: Proclaiming Holiness (Parashat Emor)
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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MEDITATION: Divine Love As The Antidote to Revenge (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim and Yom Ha’atzmaut)
It is precisely into this space of impossibility that God enters.
MEDITATION: How Solitude Heals (Parashat Tazria- Metzora)
All is right with you when you are with yourself like this.
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