Ki Tisa, כִּי תִשָּׂא When You Count 30:11-34:35
Come rest your frantic parts in this double sanctuary of stillness and presence. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Our Idolatrous Impulse And The Container(s) That Can Hold It (Parashat Ki Tisa) Read More »
In this meditation, we look at the Golden Calf and our tendency to idolatry as a search for redemption in people and things other than God. We explore the urgency, anxiety and restlessness brough on by this constant external search and then feel into how the surrounding container of shabbat and mishkan (tabernacle) –inside us
MEDITATION: Idolatry: Looking Out Instead of In (Parashat Ki Tisa) Read More »
“Make us an idol because we don’t know what happened to Moshe.” What if they could have stayed with the unease of not knowing, allowed the feeling but not acted on it? What if we could do that?
ESSAY: Leaning in to Uncertainty (Parashat Ki Tisa) Read More »
What if the Israelites could have stayed with the feeling of uncertainty and unease, allowed the feeling but not acted on it? What if we could do that, learn to stay with the unease, with the questions, with the not knowing? (Click image to read more)
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This essay considers the Golden Calf incident and the divine encounter in the cleft of the rock as two alternative approaches to anxiety, one a false refuge and the other a true one. (Click image to read more)
SHORT ESSAY: Anxiety and the Two Rocks (Parashat Ki Tisa) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the feeling of being held in the cleft of the Rock of Life as a response to the shakiness which the people experienced upon awaiting Moshe’s return, and which we all regularly experience.
MEDITATION: The Cleft in the Rock (Parashat Ki Tisa) Read More »
(Originally published in 2021) Our vulnerability is our Holy of Holies. It is in this tender human heart that God resides. (Click image to read more)
SHORT ESSAY: True Refuge for our Vulnerable Heart (Parashat Ki Tisa) Read More »