Devarim, דְּבָרִים

Devarim, דְּבָרִים Words Deut. 1:1-3:22

MEDITATION: Not Missing A Thing (Parashat Devarim)

What would it feel like to inhabit such an emotional space, where we really feel that nothing is lacking, that everything we need is right here? (Click image to read more and to listen)

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ESSAY: The Faith We Need for the Journey (Parashat Devarim)

Moshe looks back and, in retelling the incident of the spies, recalls what he had said to the people about their inability to move forward into the promised land —   badavar hazeh eynkhem ma’aminim bashem Elokeikhem  (Deuteronomy 1:32).   “With reference to this thing you don’t believe in God.”  What stops you from going

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MEDITATION: The Faith We Need For the Journey (Parashat Devarim)

In this meditation, we explore what “this thing” is that they and maybe we don’t believe or trust in — what stops us from fully moving forward on our journey to the promised land, to our full potential destiny? (click image to read more and listen)

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SHORT ESSAY: On Shabbat and Tisha B’Av (Parashat Devarim and Tisha B’Av)

This Shabbat is the ninth day of Av, and yet we do no mourning or fasting on it until the following day. There is a powerful message here. Tisha B’av speaks a certain kind of truth. It speaks the truth of judgment and sadness and suffering and destruction and disconnection and dislocation. And also the

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