Meditations

MEDITATION: Standing Strong Like the Daughters of Tzelafchad (Parashat Pinchas)

/ Meditations, Pinchas, פִּינְחָס

In this meditation, we look to the daughters of Tzelafchad — who petitioned and won the right to inherit land — as models of empowerment and agency. We consider their movements, first circling inward and then standing with integrity before others, and we remember God’s supportive ken, “yes” to their self reclamation and to ours. […]

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MEDITATION: Listening to the Pain, Listening to Our Donkey Part (Parashat Balak)

/ Meditations, Balak, בָּלָק

We are sent angels — signs and symptoms, obstacles and experiences of pain — along our journey to help guide us to the path of blessing (not curse) for which we were created. In this meditation, we practice listening to these angels. (Click image to read more and listen)

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MEDITATION: On Ben Pelet, The Sons of Korach and Our Capacity to Change (Parashat Korach)

/ Korach, קֹרַח, Meditations

Though difficult, change is possible when we listen to our heart’s whisper. (Click image to read more and listen)

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MEDITATION: Looking Inwards Instead of Outwards (Parashat Shelach)

/ Shelach, שְׁלַח-לְךָ, Meditations

Through the story of the spies and the mitzvah of tzitzit, we notice our tendency to compare ourselves to one another and practice looking inward instead, knowing our own completeness. (Click on image to read more and listen)

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MEDITATION: Learning From Ruth Not To Abandon Ourselves (Shavu’ot)

/ Meditations, Shavu'ot

Will we be a Ruth towards ourselves or an Orpah? (Click image to read more and to listen)

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MEDITATION: Taking A Sabbatical From Our Inner Work (Parashat Behar)

/ Meditations, Behar, בְּהַר

In this meditation, we look at the laws of the shmita or sabbatical year — abstaining from growth-promoting work on the land– in relation to our inner work on ourselves. We notice our strong tendency to strive, and we explore ways of relaxing into the divine abundance that nourishes and heals us without our effort,

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MEDITATION: On “Sefirah” and the Growth Process (Parashat Emor)

/ Meditations, Emor, אֱמֹר

At the end of the 49 day count known as Sefirat Ha-Omer, the Torah says that we are to bring a minchah hadashah lashem, a new gift to God. In this meditation, we look at this Sefirah period as an incubation or gestational period of inner growth in which we gradually come into a new

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MEDITATION: A Holding Container for It All (Parashat Kedoshim)

/ Meditations, Kedoshim, קְדֹשִׁים

We carry so much weight, so many worries and needs. Ani Hashem — I am God. There is vast holding container that can hold it all. (Click image to read more and to listen)

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MEDITATION: Reclaiming Your Voice (Passover)

/ Meditations, Passover

According to tradition, dibbur, the capacity to speak was exiled during the enslavement and returned during redemption. This meditation offers an internal experience of this movement from lost voice to speech to song. (Click image to read more and to listen)

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MEDITATION: What is Enough? (Parashat Shemini)

/ Shemini, שְּׁמִינִי, Meditations

On the eighth day, after much preparation and anticipation, to much fanfare, the Glory of God finally appears in the Tabernacle and the people sing out and fall on their faces in joy and awe. At this moment, Nadav and Avihu, the two sons of Aaron, grab their pans and their own fire and bring

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