Bo

Bo, בֹּא Come! 10:1-13:16

ESSAY: Radical Inclusivity (Parashat Bo)

What am I not allowing myself to feel? Who am I excluding inside me? (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Radical Inclusivity (Parashat Bo)

With our young and our elderly we will go, with our sons and our daughters we will go. (Click image to read more)

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ESSAY: On The (Uncomfortable) Growth Process In Egypt And In Ourselves (Parashat Bo)

“The stimulus for the lobster to grow is to feel uncomfortable. ” (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: On The (Uncomfortable) Growth Process In Egypt and In Ourselves (Parashat Bo)

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

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ESSAY: The Revelation of that Night (Parashat Bo)

I give thanks for the glimpses within the night. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: When the Dogs Stopped Barking (Parashat Bo)

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

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MEDITATION: Release and Renewal (Parashat HaChodesh, Passover and Parashat Bo)

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)

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WOW (Word of the Week): הזה, “This” (Parashat Bo)

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)

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SHORT ESSAY: Through the Doorway of Suffering (Parashat Bo)

(Originally published in January 2021) The Israelites stand in the portal to freedom on the night of the fourteenth of Nissan, as the first-born plague rages around them.  Their portal is marked by blood, the blood of the sheep they just sacrificed, but also, symbolically, the blood of their years of suffering.  They are poised

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SHORT ESSAY: On Not Finishing the Baking (Parashat Bo)

We feel that everything needs to be done before we can be free, before we can rest and have peace and “get there,” wherever we are trying to get. We have to first complete our to-do list. Then we will have earned peace and maybe even redemption. But we are not there yet. And then

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