Parsha

SHORT ESSAY: God Stood With Him There (Parashat Ki Tisa)

Where is God? “There,” exactly where you are.

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ESSAY: Carrying God Through the World Inside You (Parashat Terumah)

I know there is a way of accessing that presence and calm and strength, but how do I get there? Where are You?

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MEDITATION: Carrying God Through The World Inside You (Parashat Terumah)

We notice our own habitual desperate turn outwards and practice turning inwards instead to relax into the place of divine abiding calm planted inside us.

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ESSAY: Clearing Space For Divine Connection (Parashat Yitro)

Without Yitro’s intervention, without that clearing of space for Moshe, the revelation might not have been possible.

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MEDITATION: Clearing Space For Divine Connection (Parashat Yitro)

You are the vessel of that healing energy.

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ESSAY: Pride Is a Virtue, In God and In Us (Parashat Beshalach)

You are a divine elephant with amnesia living in an ant hole.

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MEDITATION: Pride Is a Virtue, In God and In Us (Parashat Beshalach)

In this meditation, we explore the positive aspects of ga’avah, pride, looking at the phrase from the Song at the Sea ki ga’o ga’ah, meaning that God has risen up and up or has become more and more proud, from the root ga’ah, to be proud. We explore how it would feel to imitate this

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ESSAY: You, Your Inner Child and God: Learning to Be Strong (Parashat Bo)

“When your child asks you.” That fear in you is a child asking you, begging you, to be strong, to remember God’s mighty arm and inhabit it in yourself.

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MEDITATION: You, Your Inner Child and God: Learning to Be Strong (Parashat Bo)

In this meditation, we look at the Torah’s injunctions to “tell your child” about the exodus story as a model for how to tend to our inner child’s emotional and spiritual needs. We consider how to unblend from your inner child so that you can set up such a dialogue and how the message of

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ESSAY: Letting Go Into God’s Healing (Parashat Va’era)

Unclenching from the tree branch you have been clinging to your whole life and trusting enough to let go and fall into God.

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