Yaakov needed this angel in order to learn that he was not small and insecure, as he thought, but strong and infinitely capable. In this meditation, we explore who these angels are inside us and how we can encounter them to know our own strength. (Click image to read more and listen)
MEDITATION: Knowing Our Own Strength (Parashat Vayishlach) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the story of the angels that appear to Yaakov at the end of the parsha and its relationship to the beginning of next week’s parsha, when Yaakov sends out messengers to make contact with Esav. We consider the idea that these angels may have been the uneasy feelings that Yaakov
MEDITATION: Our Feelings Are Angels (Parashat Vayetze) Read More »
The parsha is full of fighting — fighting between Yaakov and Esav over the birthright and the blessing, and fighting between the shepherds of Gerar and the shepherds of Yitzhak over wells. Behind this fighting is a sense of scarcity of resources. In this meditation, we look inside to see what kinds of scarcity we
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Sarah in some way dies from inattention, from not being properly honored and listened to. In this meditation, we work to find the Sarah inside us, the deep knowing resting place that connects us to the divine; we find this place and rest in it; we listen to it and honor it, so that Sarah
MEDITATION: Listen To the Voice of Your Own Sarah (Parashat Chayei Sarah) Read More »
Like Hagar and Avraham, we are blind until God opens our eyes to see that everything we need is right here. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Opening Our Eyes (Parashat Vayera) Read More »
God made “garments of skin,” or some say “garments of light” for Adam and Eve after their sin, and then God dressed them. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Garments of Light (Parashat Bereishit) Read More »
Below is a meditation script on the topic of shofar blowing. The long steady Tekiah sounds of the shofar always surround the more broken sounds of the shevarim and the teruah . . . (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION SCRIPT: The Tekiah Container for Our Brokenness (Rosh Hashanah) Read More »
Tekiah shevarim-teruah Tekiah. The long steady Tekiah sounds of the shofar always surround the other more broken sounds of the shevarim and the teruah. In this meditation, we consider the shevarim and teruah sounds to represent our brokenness and suffering, and the Tekiahs that stand on either side to represent the divine container
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In this meditation, we explore the bikkurim (first fruits) ceremony as a celebration of homecoming, both physical, to the land, and in our meditation, spiritual, a continual return to the home of peace and rest inside ourselves that is our true home, a place that is not tight like Mitzrayim, but flowing like the land
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This meditation deals with the mitzvah of helping to raise up a fellow’s fallen animal. Hakem takim imo, “you shall surely raise [it] up together with him.” The meditation considers this verse in terms of our experience of emotional “falling” on life’s journey, exploring some different ways of understanding what this falling is, and then
MEDITATION: Lifting Each Other When We Fall (Parashat Ki Tetzei) Read More »