Like Elijah disguised as a beggar at the door, might God not be disguised as your own inner beggar child asking for love?
ESSAY: to Love God And To Join God In Loving (Parashat Va’etchanan) Read More »
This meditation explores the ve’ahvta command — love God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. It considers first what it feels like to be that devoted to anything — to the point of offering up your life — and then asks — what does it mean to
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“God hates us,” the people say. We think we can hate ourselves with impunity. But what if learning to receive God’s love is one of our major life tasks?
ESSAY: Learning To Receive Love (Parashat Devarim) Read More »
God doesn’t love us because we are good, but because God is good.
MEDITATION: Feeling Like God Hates You — Or You Hate Yourself (Parashat Devarim) Read More »
Lying down beside the suffering one, stroking her hair, singing her a lullaby.
ESSAY: Here We Lay Down Together (Parashat Matot-Masei) Read More »
When you slept, I lay down with you. When you were cold, I was cold with you. When you had a headache, I saw and I cared.
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With gratitude to the Tzlofchad women and their Torah as it continues to ripen and reveal itself in this moment through all of us.
ESSAY: The Torah That Only The Tzlofchad Women Knew (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »
What piece of God’s Torah can you see that no one else — even the wisest experts among us — can see?
MEDITATION: The Torah That Only The Tzlofchad Women Knew (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »
What would it be like to sing yourself into growth instead of beating yourself into it?
ESSAY: Your Own Well (Parashat Chukat-Balak) Read More »
No, each of us, as a creature of God, has our own well. We come batteries included.
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