MEDITATION: Accessing Your Own Wellspring of Nourishment (Parashat Chukat)
No, each of us, as a creature of God, has our own well. We come batteries included.
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ESSAY: The (Levi) Power of Company (Parashat Korach)
It is the aloneness that traumatizes. And it is the accompaniment that heals.
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MEDITATION: The (Levi) Power of Company (Parashat Korach)
At long last we realize the only thing left to offer is ourselves, our presence, our company, our open loving heart. And that is enough. Not just enough, but what, it turns out, is most deeply needed.
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ESSAY: Grounded In Your Own Authority Like Eldad and Medad (Parashat Beha’alotecha)
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.
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MEDITATION: Grounded In Your Own Authority Like Eldad and Medad (Parashat Beha’alotecha)
Zushaleh, why weren’t you Zusha? God desires, maybe even needs, us to be ourselves.
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ESSAY: Shalom, Peace (Parashat Naso)
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.
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MEDITATION: Shalom, Peace (Parashat Naso)
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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ESSAY: God’s “Anokhi” and The Invitation To Claim Our Own “I” (Shavu’ot)
God is saying to us — Come, you be an I, too.
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MEDITATION: God’s “Anokhi” And The Invitation To Claim Our Own “I” (Shavu’ot)
Shouting out from the rooftop — I am me. I am here. I matter. I take up space.
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ESSAY: Leaving Home For the Desert (Parashat Bamidbar)
We are making ourselves “hefker,” renunciating anything that can demand our allegiance other than our own true heart and alignment with God.
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