Don’t “lock them up,” don’t lock up your strength, your intiutive connection to the divine, your strong independent self, your soul. It’s like the stomping out of an exquisite never-to-be-seen again flower. Let it blossom and grow and manifest.
ESSAY: Grounded In Your Own Authority Like Eldad and Medad (Parashat Beha’alotecha) Read More »
Zushaleh, why weren’t you Zusha? God desires, maybe even needs, us to be ourselves.
MEDITATION: Grounded In Your Own Authority Like Eldad and Medad (Parashat Beha’alotecha) Read More »
I accept what is here. You, my despair, my anger, my anxiety, you are not a problem. You can be here. I am at peace with you.
ESSAY: Shalom, Peace (Parashat Naso) Read More »
Feel the blanket of quiet and calm descend upon you and seep into you in this meditation on the last phrase of the priestly blessing, “May God grant you peace” (Numbers 6:26). Enjoy a story about Hillel along the way (Shabbat 31a) and a message of radical acceptance of all your (even difficult) feelings, dropping
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God is saying to us — Come, you be an I, too.
ESSAY: God’s “Anokhi” and The Invitation To Claim Our Own “I” (Shavu’ot) Read More »
Shouting out from the rooftop — I am me. I am here. I matter. I take up space.
MEDITATION: God’s “Anokhi” And The Invitation To Claim Our Own “I” (Shavu’ot) Read More »
We are making ourselves “hefker,” renunciating anything that can demand our allegiance other than our own true heart and alignment with God.
ESSAY: Leaving Home For the Desert (Parashat Bamidbar) Read More »
Make like a desert and become hefker, ownerless. A midrash on the start of our parsha suggests that in order to recieve the Torah, we need to do just that, become as hefker — as free from being owned — as the desert in which the Torah was given (Bamidbar Rabbah 1:7). In this meditation,
MEDITATION: What Owns You And How To Let Go (Parashat Bamidbar) Read More »
We say we love rest. But do we? Why does everything else seem to take priority over rest then? This week, I’d like to take a hard look at our relationship to rest.
ESSAY: Rest Is Not Secondary (Parashat Behar-Bekhukotai) Read More »
Letting all the thoughts and plans and worries swirl around as you rest in your shabbat place, the place of stillness deep inside you that is always at peace.
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