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 […]
MEDITATION: Coming Out of Hiding Into Connection (Yom Kippur) Read More »
Unbind the Yitzhak, the Laughter, the aliveness. (Click here to read more and to listen)
MEDITATION: The God Who Desires Our Aliveness (Rosh Hashanah) Read More »
This is not the Tashlich that God wants. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Tashlich, Hagar and Your Inner Child (Rosh Hashanah) Read More »
This parsha is dominated by the tocheichah, a lengthy description of terrible events that will befall us if we do not follow God. At one point, in the midst of these curses, we are told that the reason they come is tahat asher lo avadeta et Hashem elokekha besimchah uvetuv levav, “because you did not
MEDITATION: Serving God With What Brings You Joy (Parashat Ki Tavo) Read More »
If you see your brother’s donkey falling down on the road from too many burdens, don’t turn away. Hakem takim imo. Lift it up together. (Deuteronomy 22:4). We all sometimes collapse from the weight of the burdens we carry. Sometimes we are the fallen ones and sometimes we are the ones helping lift someone else
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Be tamim with Hashem your God. Find the pure unblemished place inside where you are truly with Hashem your God, where you are aligned with your divine essence. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Be “Tamim”: Stay True to Yourself (Parashat Shoftim) Read More »
You are God’s children (Deuteronomy 14:1). Banim atem Lashem Elokeikhem. In this meditation, we explore what it would mean to live into this reality, to treat ourselves with the dignity and honor of a child of God. We look at the phrase that comes after this one, lo titgodedu, the prohibition against cutting yourself as
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This experience is to help you grow into your own heart, the fullness of your own soul. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Desert Suffering As Growth Process (Parashat Eikev) Read More »
The Israelites’ 40 year sojourn in the desert was an extremely challenging one, with snakes and hunger and thirst and difficulties at every turn. In this week’s parsha, this desert experience is described as a growth process, its purpose to help us learn something about our true nature and relationship to God. In this meditation,
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In parashat Masei, the Israelites’ travels through the desert are detailed with 42 stops, each one described in the form vayisu, “they travelled,” and vayachanu, “they camped.” In this meditation, we consider the two energies implied by these two verbs, on the one hand, movement and growth and becoming, and on the other hand, rest
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