Meditations

MEDITATION Script and Recording: Imagining Yourself into Freedom (Passover)

For the precious moment, you have left the straits, the worry, the fear, the holding, the not trusting. You are free and whole and fully yourself. (Click image to read more and to listen)

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MEDITATION Recording and Script: The Unconditional Love of God (Passover)

In this meditation we explore Pesach as the holiday of divine unconiditional love, a time when God “leaped over’ the mountains of our flaws and imperfections, our low spiritual state, to redeem us and to claim us in love. We take note that neither can we lose God’s love through our mistakes, nor do we

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MEDITATION: How Is God Calling To You? (Parashat Vayikra)

In this meditation, we explore God’s call to Moshe at the beginning of this parsha and ask the question: How is God calling to me at this moment? By delving into the word Vayikra with its small alef, and paying attention to its connection to the end of last week’s parsha, too, we deepen this

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MEDITATION: What Unites Our Fragmented Parts (Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei)

This meditation explores the relationship between the mishkan (Tabernacle), work and Shabbat. We start by noticing the multiplicity of vessels and labors and creations in the mishkan, noting that multiplicity inside ourselves as well, and feeling into the sense of overwhelm and fragmentation we sometimes experiece as a result. And then we consider what makes

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MEDITATION: Leaning In To Uncertainty (Parashat Ki Tisa)

What if the Israelites could have stayed with the feeling of uncertainty and unease, allowed the feeling but not acted on it? What if we could do that, learn to stay with the unease, with the questions, with the not knowing? (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Standing Up For Ourselves (Parashat Zachor, Purim)

We, too, are given permission by the King of Kings to do the work of standing up for ourselves against internal — as well as external — attack. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Putting Distance Around Our False Beliefs (Parashat Mishpatim)

In this meditation, we apply the phrase מדבר שקר תרחק, “keep yourself distant from falsehood’ (Ex. 23:7) to our inner falsehoods, to the core false beliefs about ourselves that lie hidden and unquestioned inside us, things like: “I am not enough” and “I don’t matter” and “I need to do everything just right.” We work

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MEDITATION: Envy and Our Own Inherent Value (Parashat Yitro)

This meditation deals with the tenth commandment, lo tachmod, “you shall not covet” or envy what your neighbor has. Bringing to mind a situation in which we might feel some envy around the accomplishment or quality of another person, we then look at the healing response that the experience at Mount Sinai offers us —

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MEDITATION: What Stops You From Singing Your Soul’s Song (Parashat Beshalach)

In this meditation, we focus on one line from the Song at the Sea: עזי וזמרת יה ויהי לי לישועה, “The Lord is my strength and my song. The Lord has become my deliverance” (Exodus 15:2), looking at the connection between strength and song, and then finally, deliverance. We consider the strength it takes to

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MEDITATION: Relaxing into Redemption (Parashat Va’era)

In order to achieve our own redemption, we need to become like Moshe in his ability to surrender to God and to open to the divine redemptive process. (Click image to read more)

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