If you see your brother’s donkey falling down on the road from too many burdens, don’t turn away. Hakem takim imo. Lift it up together. (Deuteronomy 22:4). We all sometimes collapse from the weight of the burdens we carry. Sometimes we are the fallen ones and sometimes we are the ones helping lift someone else […]
MEDITATION: “Imo”: Lifting Up Together (Parashat Ki Tetzei) Read More »
Be tamim with Hashem your God. Find the pure unblemished place inside where you are truly with Hashem your God, where you are aligned with your divine essence. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Be “Tamim”: Stay True to Yourself (Parashat Shoftim) Read More »
You are God’s children (Deuteronomy 14:1). Banim atem Lashem Elokeikhem. In this meditation, we explore what it would mean to live into this reality, to treat ourselves with the dignity and honor of a child of God. We look at the phrase that comes after this one, lo titgodedu, the prohibition against cutting yourself as
MEDITATION: You Are God’s Beloved Child (Parashat Re’eh) Read More »
This experience is to help you grow into your own heart, the fullness of your own soul. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Desert Suffering As Growth Process (Parashat Eikev) Read More »
The Israelites’ 40 year sojourn in the desert was an extremely challenging one, with snakes and hunger and thirst and difficulties at every turn. In this week’s parsha, this desert experience is described as a growth process, its purpose to help us learn something about our true nature and relationship to God. In this meditation,
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In parashat Masei, the Israelites’ travels through the desert are detailed with 42 stops, each one described in the form vayisu, “they travelled,” and vayachanu, “they camped.” In this meditation, we consider the two energies implied by these two verbs, on the one hand, movement and growth and becoming, and on the other hand, rest
MEDITATION: Both Growth and Rest (Parashat Matot-Masei) Read More »
In this meditation, we look to the daughters of Tzelafchad — who petitioned and won the right to inherit land — as models of empowerment and agency. We consider their movements, first circling inward and then standing with integrity before others, and we remember God’s supportive ken, “yes” to their self reclamation and to ours.
MEDITATION: Standing Strong Like the Daughters of Tzelafchad (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »
We are sent angels — signs and symptoms, obstacles and experiences of pain — along our journey to help guide us to the path of blessing (not curse) for which we were created. In this meditation, we practice listening to these angels. (Click image to read more and listen)
MEDITATION: Listening to the Pain, Listening to Our Donkey Part (Parashat Balak) Read More »
Though difficult, change is possible when we listen to our heart’s whisper. (Click image to read more and listen)
Through the story of the spies and the mitzvah of tzitzit, we notice our tendency to compare ourselves to one another and practice looking inward instead, knowing our own completeness. (Click on image to read more and listen)
MEDITATION: Looking Inwards Instead of Outwards (Parashat Shelach) Read More »