Bo, בֹּא Come! 10:1-13:16
“When your child asks you.” That fear in you is a child asking you, begging you, to be strong, to remember God’s mighty arm and inhabit it in yourself.
ESSAY: You, Your Inner Child and God: Learning to Be Strong (Parashat Bo) Read More »
In this meditation, we look at the Torah’s injunctions to “tell your child” about the exodus story as a model for how to tend to our inner child’s emotional and spiritual needs. We consider how to unblend from your inner child so that you can set up such a dialogue and how the message of
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What am I not allowing myself to feel? Who am I excluding inside me? (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Radical Inclusivity (Parashat Bo) Read More »
With our young and our elderly we will go, with our sons and our daughters we will go. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Radical Inclusivity (Parashat Bo) Read More »
“The stimulus for the lobster to grow is to feel uncomfortable. ” (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: On The (Uncomfortable) Growth Process In Egypt And In Ourselves (Parashat Bo) Read More »
The plagues escalate until finally, Pharaoh lets the people go. In this meditation, we take the whole scene inside, finding our own inner “children of Israel” part, the locked away hurt inner child who longs to be set free, as well as our own Pharaoh part who acts as a harsh inner guard to shut
I give thanks for the glimpses within the night. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: The Revelation of that Night (Parashat Bo) Read More »
On the night of the last plague, at the exact midpoint of the night, its darkest time, amidst the anguished cries of the Egyptians, the Israelites, standing in their doorways painted with blood, experienced a revelation, what the rabbis refer to as giluy shechinah, “the revelation of divine presence.” The dogs stopped barking, the dough
MEDITATION: When the Dogs Stopped Barking (Parashat Bo) Read More »
The first commandment the Isarelites receive as a nation is to mark the new moon. In this meditation, we look at this commandment as an invitation to remember our own capacity for renewal. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Release and Renewal (Parashat HaChodesh, Passover and Parashat Bo) Read More »
This feeling, this problem, this difficulty you are having, this itself is what you can sanctify, what you can bring presence and honor to . . . (Click image to read more)
WOW (Word of the Week): הזה, “This” (Parashat Bo) Read More »