Eikev, עֵקֶב

Eikev, עֵקֶב As a Consequence 7:12-11:25

MEDITATION: Desert Suffering As Growth Process (Parashat Eikev)

The Israelites’ 40 year sojourn in the desert was an extremely challenging one, with snakes and hunger and thirst and difficulties at every turn. In this week’s parsha, this desert experience is described as a growth process, its purpose to help us learn something about our true nature and relationship to God. In this meditation,

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ESSAY: Filling Up With Divine Love (Parashat Eikev)

וְאָכַלְתָּ֖ וְשָׂבָ֑עְתָּ וּבֵֽרַכְתָּ֙
Opening, filling up and overflowing — becoming a channel for the divine flow of love in the universe. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Filling Up With Divine Love (Parashat Eikev)

In this meditation, we look at the phrase ואכלת ושבעת וברכת, “You shall eat and be satisfied and give thanks,” as a spiritual process of opening, filling up and overflowing with divine love. (Click image to read more)

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SHORT ESSAY: Our Hunger, But Not For Bread (Parashat Eikev)

Perhaps the greater our hunger — the more urgently God calls — the closer we are getting to “the days that are coming,” to the wholeness that emerges from our return . . . (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Our Hunger, But Not For bread (Parashat Eikev)

In this meditation, we get in touch with the ache of our hunger, our yearning, not for bread, but for connection to God, and we explore the different entry points . . . (Click image to read more)

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SHORT ESSAY: Undaunted (Parashat Eikev)

“Perhaps you will say in your heart: these nations are greater, more numerous, than I – how will I ever be able to drive them out (Deut. 7:17)?” Moshe understands that this is what the Israelites will feel at the prospect of the enormous task of conquering the land. The enemies, the obstacles, are too

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SHORT ESSAY: Not Because We Deserve It (Parashat Eikev)

“If you are breathing, that is nature’s way of saying that you belong here. You are enough.” I saw this on a teacher website, something that a teacher said to his students every day as part of a breathing meditation. I would adjust that to: If you are breathing, that is God’s way of saying

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