Maybe you can hear the command to make a “tzohar” in the ark as a divine invitation to tend to that light in your own ark. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Tending to Your Light Through The Storm (Parashat Noah) Read More »
How has your light, your sacred fire of hope and passion and agency, been dimmed by the storms and winds of life? How can you tend to it now and preserve it, hold it close and share it? (Click image to read more and to listen)
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And God saw that it was good. Not perfect, not complete, but still good, in and of itself, in this moment. (Click image to read more and to listen)
We don’t have to be done with our work to celebrate. (Click image to read more)
We have only to serve God and the world from our special place of joy. That is how we know what is ours to do. (Click on image to read more)
ESSAY: Serving God With What Brings You Joy (Parashat Ki Tavo) 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
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Sometimes we are lying on the ground, and the only way to get up is to really let go into this otherworldly assistance, into our Higher Power, to admit that we can’t do it alone, but only “imo,” with God, and to open to that grace-filled support. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: “Imo”: Lifting Up Together (Parashat Ki Tetzei) 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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When a plant grows, it does not do so in order to show off or please others. It grows out a natural instinct to express itself, to be itself in the world. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Be “Tamim”: Stay True To Yourself (Parashat Shoftim) Read More »
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)
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