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, […]
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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,
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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
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In this meditation, we explore the image of the angels climbing up and down in Yaakov’s dream. First we relate that image to our breath, feeling our in and out, up and down breath, as a chain of angels inside creating a constant energetic current of connection between us and God, noticing that the ladder
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God’s blessings, when and if they come to Avraham, do not come easily or quickly, but with much disruption and uncertainty. The land he is promised has famine and war, and the children he is promised are slow in coming and then threatened to be taken away. It often does look to us like God’s
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How has your light, your sacred fire of hope and passion and agency, been dimmed by the storms and winds of life? How can you tend to it now and preserve it, hold it close and share it? (Click image to read more and to listen)
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And God saw that it was good. Not perfect, not complete, but still good, in and of itself, in this moment. (Click image to read more and to listen)
Maybe it’s not the mistake, but the moment after that counts. Adam and Eve go into hiding after they sin the Torah’s fist sin. Filled with shame, they are unable to connect to a God who continues to want to connect to them. Each Yom Kippur, we attempt to repair this rupture by coming out
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Unbind the Yitzhak, the Laughter, the aliveness. (Click here to read more and to listen)
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This is not the Tashlich that God wants. (Click image to read more)
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