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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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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Shouting out from the rooftop — I am me. I am here. I matter. I take up space.
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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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