Meditations

MEDITATION: On Planting Seeds and Receiving Blessing (Parashat Toldot)

How do we attain true divine blessing — by grasping and chasing or by planting and trusting? (Click here to read more and listen)

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MEDITATION: Entering the Sanctuary of Sarah’s Tent (Parashat Chayei Sarah)

We enter into the sanctuary created by Sarah inside ourselves, finding our own comfort and hope and a renewed capacity for love. (Click image to read more and listen)

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MEDITATION: The Stance of “Hineni”: Here I am (Parashat Vayera)

“Hineni” is a way of living into your fullest possible self in this present moment. (Click image to read more and to listen)

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MEDITATION: The God Who Sees My Suffering (Parashat Lech Lecha)

In her suffering, Hagar has an experience of God in the desert that fortifies her to return to her life. How can we, too, be strengthened? (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: An Ark of Kindness Through a Flood of Violence (Parashat Noah)

During the flood, Noah and his family spent their time taking care of the many varied needs of the animals in the ark. They rode through a sea of death and destruction in a vehicle of kindness. In this meditation, we consider this story as a model for our own beleaguered state of being, and

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MEDITATION: Inner Resourcing For Difficult Times (Parashat Breishit)

Together we create inside us a collective and personal space that can hold what is difficult in this moment. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Day of Love, Not Judgment (Yom Kippur)

What we find is a God who is steady with us through it all, patiently waiting for us to realize how much we are loved. (Click image to read more and listen)

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MEDITATION: Avraham’s (And Our) Moment of Pivoting (Rosh Hashanah)

In this meditation, we focus on one moment in the story of the Akedah, the moment when Avraham hears God’s second call and pivots, deciding not to offer his son up as a sacrifice. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: It’s So Close, Right Here, Inside You (Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelekh)

In this meditation, we explore the possibility that what we are seeking is very, very close – “karov hadavar me’od” — right here, inside us. (Click image to read more and listen)

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MEDITATION: Back and Forth — Our Reciprocal Relationship With God (Parashat Ki Tavo)

In this meditation, we explore what it might feel like to connect to God in this reciprocal way, to know that it is not just that we yearn for God, but also that God yearns for us. (Click image to read more and to listen)

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