There is a tradition that during the 7 day period of the miluim, the days of practice and initiation before the tabernacle was officially consecrated on day 8, during each of those 7 days, Moshe erected and took down the mishkan (Midrash Tanchuma Pekudei 11). We look at this practice of construction and dismantling as […]
MEDITATION: Staying Centered Through the Ups and Downs (Parashat Tzav) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the concept of ad delo yada, the instruction on Purim to get into a mindset of not knowing the difference between blessed Mordecai and cursed Haman. We consider what this mindset might feel like, if we let go temporarily of our pervasive habit of judging, distinguishing, separating and evaluating, and
MEDITATION: עד דלא ידע — Until We Meet in the Field of Unknowing (Purim) Read More »
What if God and the universe wants and needs us to listen to that inkling, to that intuition, to that knowing? What if the world depends on it? (Click image to read more and listen)
MEDITATION: Betzalel and the Honoring of Our Intuitive Knowing (Parashat Pekudei) Read More »
In this meditation, we look at the Shabbat prohibition of “not kindling a fire in all your dwelling places” (Exodus 35:3) in dialogue with the burning bush incident, interpreting the “fire” as any strong emotion that threatens to consume you and understanding the prohibition against kindling such a fire “in all your dwelling places” as
MEDITATION: Not Consumed By Our Raging Emotions (Parashat Vayakhel) Read More »
In this meditation, we look at the Golden Calf and our tendency to idolatry as a search for redemption in people and things other than God. We explore the urgency, anxiety and restlessness brough on by this constant external search and then feel into how the surrounding container of shabbat and mishkan (tabernacle) –inside us
MEDITATION: Idolatry: Looking Out Instead of In (Parashat Ki Tisa) Read More »
Whom do you carry on your shoulders and on your heart? (Click image to read more and listen)
In this meditation, we look closely at the keruvim, the child-like angel figures that stood on top of the ark in the Tabernacle. It is from between these keruvim that God is said to speak and meet us. Finding this place in our own heart space, we explore what blocks us from this open access
MEDITATION: From Swords to Angel Wings: Learning to Open Our Hearts (Parashat Terumah) Read More »
There is a Hasidic tradition that the only thing God spoke at Mount Sinai was the first letter of the first commandment — the alef of the word anokhi, “I am.” In this meditation, we explore the power of this silent letter to heal and strengthen and empower us. א Sources:Exodus 20:2The Rebbe of Rumanov
MEDITATION: Embodying The Alef Of “Anokhi” (Parashat Yitro) Read More »
In this meditation, we take a close look at the way the Torah describes the women’s song and dance led by Miriam, feeling into aspects of both marginalization and ultimate empowerment in the Torah and in ourselves. We explore in our own bodies Miriam’s radical and deeply feminine way of leading and being and worshiping
MEDITATION: Miriam And Her (Marginalized) Song of Empowerment (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »
The plagues escalate until finally, Pharaoh lets the people go. In this meditation, we take the whole scene inside, finding our own inner “children of Israel” part, the locked away hurt inner child who longs to be set free, as well as our own Pharaoh part who acts as a harsh inner guard to shut