The parsha is full of fighting — fighting between Yaakov and Esav over the birthright and the blessing, and fighting between the shepherds of Gerar and the shepherds of Yitzhak over wells. Behind this fighting is a sense of scarcity of resources. In this meditation, we look inside to see what kinds of scarcity we […]
MEDITATION: On Scarcity and Spaciousness (Parashat Toldot) Read More »
Sarah in some way dies from inattention, from not being properly honored and listened to. In this meditation, we work to find the Sarah inside us, the deep knowing resting place that connects us to the divine; we find this place and rest in it; we listen to it and honor it, so that Sarah
MEDITATION: Listen To the Voice of Your Own Sarah (Parashat Chayei Sarah) Read More »
Like Hagar and Avraham, we are blind until God opens our eyes to see that everything we need is right here. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Opening Our Eyes (Parashat Vayera) Read More »
God made “garments of skin,” or some say “garments of light” for Adam and Eve after their sin, and then God dressed them. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Garments of Light (Parashat Bereishit) Read More »
Below is a meditation script on the topic of shofar blowing. The long steady Tekiah sounds of the shofar always surround the more broken sounds of the shevarim and the teruah . . . (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION SCRIPT: The Tekiah Container for Our Brokenness (Rosh Hashanah) Read More »
Tekiah shevarim-teruah Tekiah. The long steady Tekiah sounds of the shofar always surround the other more broken sounds of the shevarim and the teruah. In this meditation, we consider the shevarim and teruah sounds to represent our brokenness and suffering, and the Tekiahs that stand on either side to represent the divine container
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In this meditation, we explore the bikkurim (first fruits) ceremony as a celebration of homecoming, both physical, to the land, and in our meditation, spiritual, a continual return to the home of peace and rest inside ourselves that is our true home, a place that is not tight like Mitzrayim, but flowing like the land
MEDITATION: On Bikkurim and Homecoming (Parashat Ki Tavo) Read More »
This meditation deals with the mitzvah of helping to raise up a fellow’s fallen animal. Hakem takim imo, “you shall surely raise [it] up together with him.” The meditation considers this verse in terms of our experience of emotional “falling” on life’s journey, exploring some different ways of understanding what this falling is, and then
MEDITATION: Lifting Each Other When We Fall (Parashat Ki Tetzei) Read More »
This meditation deals with the phrase ki ha’adam etz hasadeh, “for a person is a tree of the field” (Deuteronomy 21:19), exploring what it might feel like to really imagine yourself as a tree, the majesty and the stillness, the groundedness and the sense of connection. This phrase is said in the context of war
MEDITATION: Your True Tree Self (Parashat Shoftim) Read More »
In this meditation, we consider the mitzvah of re’ayon, of coming to the Temple three times a year to “be seen” by God, a mitzvah which appears at the end of our parsha. We explore two aspects of the feeling of being seen by God, the feeling of having one’s suffering be seen and the
MEDITATION: Being Seen by God (Parashat Re’eh) Read More »