Moving your seat so you are no longer identified with the moving, branches, but instead with the trunk of the tree, still, rooted and at peace.
MEDITATION: Shabbat and Our Inherent Value (Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei) Read More »
The remembrance of Shabbat is in and of itself the erasure of Amalek.
MEDITATION: Shabbat As The Antidote To Amalek (Parashat Zachor and Purim) Read More »
We notice our own habitual desperate turn outwards and practice turning inwards instead to relax into the place of divine abiding calm planted inside us.
MEDITATION: Carrying God Through The World Inside You (Parashat Terumah) Read More »
You are the vessel of that healing energy.
MEDITATION: Clearing Space For Divine Connection (Parashat Yitro) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the positive aspects of ga’avah, pride, looking at the phrase from the Song at the Sea ki ga’o ga’ah, meaning that God has risen up and up or has become more and more proud, from the root ga’ah, to be proud. We explore how it would feel to imitate this
MEDITATION: Pride Is a Virtue, In God and In Us (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »
In this meditation, we look at the Torah’s injunctions to “tell your child” about the exodus story as a model for how to tend to our inner child’s emotional and spiritual needs. We consider how to unblend from your inner child so that you can set up such a dialogue and how the message of
MEDITATION: You, Your Inner Child and God: Learning to Be Strong (Parashat Bo) Read More »
I can’t. You (God) can. I will let You. Surrendering and opening to God’s healing energies inside us.
MEDITATION: Letting Go Into God’s Healing (Parashat Va’era) Read More »
Maybe God’s “I am who I am” offers a response to Moshe’s — and our — feelings of inadequacy.
MEDITATION: I am Who I Am (Parashat Shemot) Read More »
In this meditation, we look at the prohibition against making use of the Chanukah light and consider how it invites us into an intrinsic orientation towards value instead of a utilitarian one. We apply that to ourselves and our own light, exploring what it would mean to really believe in our own intrinsic divine value,
MEDITATION: Your Intrinsic Value (Chanukah) Read More »
Who are you without that external coat of specialness and superiority? Underneath, what Yosef found, was God and his own divine core.
MEDITATION: Shedding Coats Like Yosef (Parashat Vayeshev) Read More »