It’s as if all of creation was waiting for us to learn to add nishma to na’aseh, to add listening to doing. In this week’s parsha, the covenant with God at Sinai continues to be processed and expanded, and it is here that we find the Israelites offering their famous response to this covenant – […]
ESSAY: Becoming Listeners in Addition to Doers (Parashat Mishpatim) Read More »
“Na’aseh Venishma,” we will do and we will listen, the Israelites famously respond to the covenant at Sinai. God wants us to become listeners in addition to doers. (Click image to read more)
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What would it feel like to have God offering you support in claiming your voice, helping you to amplify it and strengthen it so that you can speak your piece of the divine truth into the world? God offered Moshe that kind of support at Mount Sinai. In the midst of the thunder and lightning
ESSAY: God’s Support For Moshe’s Voice and Our Own (Parashat Yitro) Read More »
Love is “the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another person’s spiritual growth.” (Click on image to read more and listen)
MEDITATION: God’s Support for Moshe’s Voice And Our Own (Parashat Yitro) Read More »
We search for the strength to face what is difficult right now and not fall into the collapsing energies of fear and despair. Ozi vezimrat Yah. “The Lord is my strength and song (Exodus 15:2),” the Israelites sang after their salvation at the Red Sea. They knew something about facing impossible situations. My Strength
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In this meditation, we explore the phrase Ozi vezimrat Yah, “The Lord is my strength and song” (Exodus 15:2). We consider the fear that the Israelites felt at the Sea as well as our own fears and feel into how we might allow the divine energy of strength and courage and creativity to flow through
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What am I not allowing myself to feel? Who am I excluding inside me? (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Radical Inclusivity (Parashat Bo) Read More »
With our young and our elderly we will go, with our sons and our daughters we will go. (Click image to read more)
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Who is in charge inside –Pharaoh or God? (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Breathing God In (Parashat Va’era) Read More »
When Moshe came to the Israelites with the good news of God’s redemption, they could not hear him because of “shortness of breath” and “hard work” (Exodus 6:9). In this meditation, we explore our own shortness of breath in relation to the pressures of a fast paced, productivity oriented society and we consider how we
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