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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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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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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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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God doesn’t love us because we are good, but because God is good.
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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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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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No, each of us, as a creature of God, has our own well. We come batteries included.
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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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Zushaleh, why weren’t you Zusha? God desires, maybe even needs, us to be ourselves.
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