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MEDITATION: You Are God’s Beloved Child (Parashat Re’eh)

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You are God’s children (Deuteronomy 14:1). Banim atem Lashem Elokeikhem. In this meditation, we explore what it would mean to live into this reality, to treat ourselves with the dignity and honor of a child of God. We look at the phrase that comes after this one, lo titgodedu, the prohibition against cutting yourself as

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MEDITATION: Gathering In All Parts of You (Parashat Re’eh)

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Again and again in this parsha, the Torah talks about gathering all the members of your household together to hamakom, to the place where God resides, and being sameach, joyful, there. In this meditation we work on gathering in all parts of ourselves to hamakom, to the place of inner divine spaciousness, inviting in each

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SHORT ESSAY: Being Seen by God (Parashat Re’eh)

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Our parsha begins with the word re’eh, “see,” and ends with a commandment related to the same word, the mitzvah of re’ayon, of “being seen” by God in the Temple during pilgrimages.   Three times a year, the Torah says, yera’eh, a person is required “to be seen” by God (Devarim 16:16).   This is such

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MEDITATION: Being Seen by God (Parashat Re’eh)

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In this meditation, we consider the mitzvah of re’ayon, of coming to the Temple three times a year to “be seen” by God, a mitzvah which appears at the end of our parsha. We explore two aspects of the feeling of being seen by God, the feeling of having one’s suffering be seen and the

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SHORT ESSAY: The Poor in Your Midst (Parashat Re’eh)

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The most vulnerable in society are a primary concern in this week’s parsha — there is a constant refrain of taking care of the poor, the widow, the orphan, the male and female servant and the Levite, who, because he did not have a land portion, was dependent on others for his survival. This concern

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