Meditations

MEDITATION: Inner Resourcing For Difficult Times (Parashat Breishit)

Together we create inside us a collective and personal space that can hold what is difficult in this moment. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Day of Love, Not Judgment (Yom Kippur)

What we find is a God who is steady with us through it all, patiently waiting for us to realize how much we are loved. (Click image to read more and listen)

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MEDITATION: Avraham’s (And Our) Moment of Pivoting (Rosh Hashanah)

In this meditation, we focus on one moment in the story of the Akedah, the moment when Avraham hears God’s second call and pivots, deciding not to offer his son up as a sacrifice. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: It’s So Close, Right Here, Inside You (Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelekh)

In this meditation, we explore the possibility that what we are seeking is very, very close – “karov hadavar me’od” — right here, inside us. (Click image to read more and listen)

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MEDITATION: Back and Forth — Our Reciprocal Relationship With God (Parashat Ki Tavo)

In this meditation, we explore what it might feel like to connect to God in this reciprocal way, to know that it is not just that we yearn for God, but also that God yearns for us. (Click image to read more and to listen)

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MEDITATION: The Return of Our Lost Parts (Parashat Ki Teitzei)

The mitzvah of returning lost items is read as the retrieval and ingathering of lost parts of ourselves. What parts of you are asking to be brought home this season? (Click image to read more and listen)

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MEDITATION: Our Inner City of Refuge (Parashat Shoftim)

In this meditation, we work on finding and strengthening places of refuge inside us where there is forgiveness and atonement and healing, where we are held in all our imperfections and returned to a sense of belonging. Sources:Deuteronomy 19:1-8Rashi on Deuteronomy 19:3Psalm 27:4Maimonides, Laws of the Murderer and Loss of Life, 8: 5-6, 11Psalm 91:1Deuteronomy

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MEDITATION: Gathering In All Parts of You (Parashat Re’eh)

Again and again in this parsha, the Torah talks about gathering all the members of your household together to hamakom, to the place where God resides, and being sameach, joyful, there. In this meditation we work on gathering in all parts of ourselves to hamakom, to the place of inner divine spaciousness, inviting in each

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MEDITATION: Filling Up With Divine Love (Parashat Eikev)

In this meditation, we look at the phrase ואכלת ושבעת וברכת, “You shall eat and be satisfied and give thanks,” as a spiritual process of opening, filling up and overflowing with divine love. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Holding On to the Connection (Parashat Va’etchanan and Tisha B’Av)

Holding fast to our lifeline in times of trouble helps us stay afloat. (Click image to read more and to listen. )

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