Beshalach, בְּשַׁלַּח When He Sent Out 13:17-17:16
We search for the strength to face what is difficult right now and not fall into the collapsing energies of fear and despair. Ozi vezimrat Yah. “The Lord is my strength and song (Exodus 15:2),” the Israelites sang after their salvation at the Red Sea. They knew something about facing impossible situations. My Strength […]
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In this meditation, we explore the phrase Ozi vezimrat Yah, “The Lord is my strength and song” (Exodus 15:2). We consider the fear that the Israelites felt at the Sea as well as our own fears and feel into how we might allow the divine energy of strength and courage and creativity to flow through
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This passage holds both the pain of marginalization as well as the seeds of a future complete redemption and liberation. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Miriam And Her (Marginalized) Song of Empowerment (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »
In this meditation, we take a close look at the way the Torah describes the women’s song and dance led by Miriam, feeling into aspects of both marginalization and ultimate empowerment in the Torah and in ourselves. We explore in our own bodies Miriam’s radical and deeply feminine way of leading and being and worshiping
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What stops you from singing your “zimrat yah,” your divine song? What voices from your past, like the chasing Egyptians, hold you back? (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: What Stops You From Singing Your Soul’s Song (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »
In this meditation, we focus on one line from the Song at the Sea: עזי וזמרת יה ויהי לי לישועה, “The Lord is my strength and my song. The Lord has become my deliverance” (Exodus 15:2), looking at the connection between strength and song, and then finally, deliverance. We consider the strength it takes to
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“Lo nacham” — God does not regret taking Israel out of Egypt. Rest in the knowledge of that unshakable love. (Click image to read more)
WOW (Word of the Week): נחם — God Leads and Never Leaves (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »
(Originally published in January 2021) God says: “What are you yelling at Me for? Tell them to move forward!” The only way around fear is through it, moving forward depsite the fear, in the fear, through the fear itself . . . (Click image to read more)
SHORT ESSAY: From Fear to Song (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »
In this meditation, we journey with the Israelites through fear and faith and strength and joy and dance, as we cross the Red Sea together. Photo by Emiliano Arano from Pexels
MEDITATION: Crossing the Sea (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »
God is all around us. To our right, to our left, behind, before and above. In this week’s parsha, God stations Himself, in the form of a pillar of cloud/fire, before us to lead us, and then behind us, to protect us. Then, as we walk through the split waters of the Red Sea, the
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