“They should make for Me a sanctuary and I will dwell in their midst” (Exodus 25:8). “In their midst” [betokham] — inside each one of us. We interpret this as an instruction to each of us to create an internal sanctuary — God desires to reside inside us. In this meditation, we explore how to […]
MEDITATION: Becoming a Sanctuary for the Divine Presence (Parashat Terumah) Read More »
“Na’aseh Venishma,” we will do and we will listen, the Israelites famously respond to the covenant at Sinai. God wants us to become listeners in addition to doers. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Becoming Listeners In Addition to Doers (Parashat Mishpatim) Read More »
Love is “the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another person’s spiritual growth.” (Click on image to read more and listen)
MEDITATION: God’s Support for Moshe’s Voice And Our Own (Parashat Yitro) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the phrase Ozi vezimrat Yah, “The Lord is my strength and song” (Exodus 15:2). We consider the fear that the Israelites felt at the Sea as well as our own fears and feel into how we might allow the divine energy of strength and courage and creativity to flow through
MEDITATION: Your Strength and Your Song (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »
With our young and our elderly we will go, with our sons and our daughters we will go. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Radical Inclusivity (Parashat Bo) Read More »
When Moshe came to the Israelites with the good news of God’s redemption, they could not hear him because of “shortness of breath” and “hard work” (Exodus 6:9). In this meditation, we explore our own shortness of breath in relation to the pressures of a fast paced, productivity oriented society and we consider how we
MEDITATION: Breathing God In (Parashat Va’era) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the image of Moshe floating down the river to salvation and feel into what it would be like to surrender and trust and let go of navigation and control to that extent, letting the river take us where we need to go. Source: Exodus 2:1-10 Photo by Pixabay at Pexels
MEDITATION: Floating down the River With Moshe (Parashat Shemot) Read More »
We cannot redeem ourselves through our ordinary human capacities. Redemption only comes through surrender to the divine plane, to the angel that is always waiting to redeem us. In this meditation, we work with the famous phrase (and song) hamalakh hagoel oti (Genesis 48:16) that Yaakov said as a blessing to Yosef and his sons,
MEDITATION: The Angel That Redeems You (Parashat Vayechi) Read More »
In this meditation, we look at issues of superiority and inferiority in the Yosef story and our own tendencies to live through the lens of constant comparison to others. And then we touch into our deepest desire, which, like Yosef, is ultimately to seek “our brothers” and our sisters, to seek fellowship and peer connection,
MEDITATION: It Is My Brothers That I Seek (Parashat Vayeshev) Read More »
After Yaakov wrestles with the angel, injuring his hip, the next morning the Torah says, vayizrach lo hashemesh, “the sun shone for him” (Genesis 32:32). The midrash explains that the sun came out to heal him after his injury. In this meditation, we explore what it would feel like to imagine that the sun was
MEDITATION: The Sun Shines For You (Parashat Vayishlach) Read More »