MEDITATION: Learning From Ruth Not To Abandon Ourselves (Shavu’ot)
Will we be a Ruth towards ourselves or an Orpah? (Click image to read more and to listen)
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Meditations
MEDITATION: Taking A Sabbatical From Our Inner Work (Parashat Behar)
In this meditation, we look at the laws of the shmita or sabbatical year — abstaining from growth-promoting work on the land– in relation to our inner work on ourselves. We notice our strong tendency to strive, and we explore ways of relaxing into the divine abundance that nourishes and heals us without our effort,
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MEDITATION: On “Sefirah” and the Growth Process (Parashat Emor)
At the end of the 49 day count known as Sefirat Ha-Omer, the Torah says that we are to bring a minchah hadashah lashem, a new gift to God. In this meditation, we look at this Sefirah period as an incubation or gestational period of inner growth in which we gradually come into a new
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MEDITATION: A Holding Container for It All (Parashat Kedoshim)
We carry so much weight, so many worries and needs. Ani Hashem — I am God. There is vast holding container that can hold it all. (Click image to read more and to listen)
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MEDITATION: Reclaiming Your Voice (Passover)
According to tradition, dibbur, the capacity to speak was exiled during the enslavement and returned during redemption. This meditation offers an internal experience of this movement from lost voice to speech to song. (Click image to read more and to listen)
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MEDITATION: What is Enough? (Parashat Shemini)
On the eighth day, after much preparation and anticipation, to much fanfare, the Glory of God finally appears in the Tabernacle and the people sing out and fall on their faces in joy and awe. At this moment, Nadav and Avihu, the two sons of Aaron, grab their pans and their own fire and bring
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MEDITATION: Staying Centered Through the Ups and Downs (Parashat Tzav)
There is a tradition that during the 7 day period of the miluim, the days of practice and initiation before the tabernacle was officially consecrated on day 8, during each of those 7 days, Moshe erected and took down the mishkan (Midrash Tanchuma Pekudei 11). We look at this practice of construction and dismantling as
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MEDITATION: עד דלא ידע — Until We Meet in the Field of Unknowing (Purim)
In this meditation, we explore the concept of ad delo yada, the instruction on Purim to get into a mindset of not knowing the difference between blessed Mordecai and cursed Haman. We consider what this mindset might feel like, if we let go temporarily of our pervasive habit of judging, distinguishing, separating and evaluating, and
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MEDITATION: Betzalel and the Honoring of Our Intuitive Knowing (Parashat Pekudei)
What if God and the universe wants and needs us to listen to that inkling, to that intuition, to that knowing? What if the world depends on it? (Click image to read more and listen)
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MEDITATION: Not Consumed By Our Raging Emotions (Parashat Vayakhel)
In this meditation, we look at the Shabbat prohibition of “not kindling a fire in all your dwelling places” (Exodus 35:3) in dialogue with the burning bush incident, interpreting the “fire” as any strong emotion that threatens to consume you and understanding the prohibition against kindling such a fire “in all your dwelling places” as
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