In this meditation, we look at the Golden Calf and our tendency to idolatry as a search for redemption in people and things other than God. We explore the urgency, anxiety and restlessness brough on by this constant external search and then feel into how the surrounding container of shabbat and mishkan (tabernacle) –inside us […]
MEDITATION: Idolatry: Looking Out Instead of In (Parashat Ki Tisa) Read More »
Whom do you carry on your shoulders and on your heart? (Click image to read more and listen)
In this meditation, we look closely at the keruvim, the child-like angel figures that stood on top of the ark in the Tabernacle. It is from between these keruvim that God is said to speak and meet us. Finding this place in our own heart space, we explore what blocks us from this open access
MEDITATION: From Swords to Angel Wings: Learning to Open Our Hearts (Parashat Terumah) Read More »
There is a Hasidic tradition that the only thing God spoke at Mount Sinai was the first letter of the first commandment — the alef of the word anokhi, “I am.” In this meditation, we explore the power of this silent letter to heal and strengthen and empower us. א Sources:Exodus 20:2The Rebbe of Rumanov
MEDITATION: Embodying The Alef Of “Anokhi” (Parashat Yitro) Read More »
In this meditation, we take a close look at the way the Torah describes the women’s song and dance led by Miriam, feeling into aspects of both marginalization and ultimate empowerment in the Torah and in ourselves. We explore in our own bodies Miriam’s radical and deeply feminine way of leading and being and worshiping
MEDITATION: Miriam And Her (Marginalized) Song of Empowerment (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »
The plagues escalate until finally, Pharaoh lets the people go. In this meditation, we take the whole scene inside, finding our own inner “children of Israel” part, the locked away hurt inner child who longs to be set free, as well as our own Pharaoh part who acts as a harsh inner guard to shut
The Israelites could not hear Moshe because of “kotzer ruah,” shortness of breath. How do we learn to breathe deeply and let God in? (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: When We Are Closed — Learning To Breathe (Parashat Va’era) Read More »
When God first invites Moshe to this new project of redemption, Moshe has a lot of objections. God stays stead with Moshe and helps him see that ultimately it is not these doubting human parts that will do the job, but God working through Moshe. In this meditation, we come into contact without own doubts
MEDITATION: On Self Doubt And Letting God In To Do The Work (Parashat Shemot) Read More »
At a critical moment, Yehudah steps into the breach and cracks Yosef wide open with his words. There is a midrash that compares this scene to a deep well of fresh, cool waters that no one could reach until one person — Yehudah — ties thread to thread to weave a long rope that can
MEDITATION: Reaching the Deep Well of Your Own Heart (Parashat Vayigash) Read More »
They thought the jug did not have enough oil to last more than one day. We have this pervasive sense of not enoughness about many things — time, space, resources, love — and on one level, the concrete, rational level of counting and figuring things out and knowing, there is truth to our assessments, to
MEDITATION: Entering the Magical Kingdom (Chanukah) Read More »