Meditations

MEDITATION: The Jubilee Year and Your Return to Yourself (Parashat Behar-Bechukotai)

/ Meditations, Behar, בְּהַר, Bechukotai, בְּחֻקֹּתַי

In this meditation, we explore the yovel (jubilee) year’s instruction to return “each person to his holding,” understanding this internally as referring to a return to our soul, to our essence, after an inevitable distancing and shutting down through life and social and cutlural norms. Using bird imagery and river imagery which both emerge from

MEDITATION: The Jubilee Year and Your Return to Yourself (Parashat Behar-Bechukotai) Read More »

MEDITATION: Our Inner Shabbat Resting Place (Parashat Emor)

/ Meditations, Emor, אֱמֹר

Shabbat is the first of the holidays listed in this week’s parsha. In this meditation, we explore what it means to disidentify with our work and to find inside ourselves our inner Shabbat Resting Place. We notice the fluttering of our anxious parts, like little birds, and help them come to rest, like Noah’s dove,

MEDITATION: Our Inner Shabbat Resting Place (Parashat Emor) Read More »

ESSAY: From “Less Than” To Overflowing With Love (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim)

/ Meditations, Acharei Mot, אַחֲרֵי מוֹת, Kedoshim, קְדֹשִׁים

All the other judgments and lenses — the reason you are “less than” — they are like chaff that gets blown away in the wind, leaving behind the core kernel of who you are, the solidness of your inherent sacredness. (Click image to read more)

ESSAY: From “Less Than” To Overflowing With Love (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim) Read More »

MEDITATION: From “Less Than” to Overflowing With Love (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim)

/ Meditations, Acharei Mot, אַחֲרֵי מוֹת, Kedoshim, קְדֹשִׁים

The section of mitzvot at the begininng of Parashat Kedoshim invites us into a radical re-invisioning of how we structure society and see ourselves and each other. It is inviting us to move from a power dominated perspective in which some are considered “less than” to a consciousness that is centered on love and the

MEDITATION: From “Less Than” to Overflowing With Love (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim) Read More »

MEDITATION: Being the Kohen for Our Afflicted Parts (Parashat Tazria-Metzora)

/ Tazria, תַזְרִיעַ, Meditations, Metzora, מְּצֹרָע

In this meditation, we practice inhabiting our inner kohen, our capacity to be God’s representative on earth. Like the kohen — vera’ah hakohen — we look at our own tzaru’a, afflicted parts, through this divine lens, seeing our afflictions with optimisim and spaciousness and steadfast love, confident and patient about our own process of healing

MEDITATION: Being the Kohen for Our Afflicted Parts (Parashat Tazria-Metzora) Read More »

MEDITATION Script and Recording: Imagining Yourself into Freedom (Passover)

/ Meditations, Passover

For the precious moment, you have left the straits, the worry, the fear, the holding, the not trusting. You are free and whole and fully yourself. (Click image to read more and to listen)

MEDITATION Script and Recording: Imagining Yourself into Freedom (Passover) Read More »

MEDITATION Recording and Script: The Unconditional Love of God (Passover)

/ Meditations, Passover

In this meditation we explore Pesach as the holiday of divine unconiditional love, a time when God “leaped over’ the mountains of our flaws and imperfections, our low spiritual state, to redeem us and to claim us in love. We take note that neither can we lose God’s love through our mistakes, nor do we

MEDITATION Recording and Script: The Unconditional Love of God (Passover) Read More »

MEDITATION: How Is God Calling To You? (Parashat Vayikra)

/ Vayikra, וַיִּקְרָא, Meditations

In this meditation, we explore God’s call to Moshe at the beginning of this parsha and ask the question: How is God calling to me at this moment? By delving into the word Vayikra with its small alef, and paying attention to its connection to the end of last week’s parsha, too, we deepen this

MEDITATION: How Is God Calling To You? (Parashat Vayikra) Read More »

MEDITATION: What Unites Our Fragmented Parts (Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei)

/ Meditations, Vayakhel, וַיַּקְהֵל, Pekudei, פְקוּדֵי

This meditation explores the relationship between the mishkan (Tabernacle), work and Shabbat. We start by noticing the multiplicity of vessels and labors and creations in the mishkan, noting that multiplicity inside ourselves as well, and feeling into the sense of overwhelm and fragmentation we sometimes experiece as a result. And then we consider what makes

MEDITATION: What Unites Our Fragmented Parts (Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei) Read More »

MEDITATION: Leaning In To Uncertainty (Parashat Ki Tisa)

/ Meditations, Ki Tisa, כִּי תִשָּׂא

What if the Israelites could have stayed with the feeling of uncertainty and unease, allowed the feeling but not acted on it? What if we could do that, learn to stay with the unease, with the questions, with the not knowing? (Click image to read more)

MEDITATION: Leaning In To Uncertainty (Parashat Ki Tisa) Read More »