ESSAY: Shabbat and Our Inherent Value (Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei)
It’s not your work or your accomplishments. It’s you I want, God says to us.
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Pekudei, פְקוּדֵי
Pekudei, פְקוּדֵי Accountings 38:21-40:38
MEDITATION: Shabbat and Our Inherent Value (Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei)
Moving your seat so you are no longer identified with the moving, branches, but instead with the trunk of the tree, still, rooted and at peace.
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ESSAY: Betzalel and the Honoring of Our Intuitive Knowing (Parashat Pekudei)
What if, like Betzalel, we are not wrong? What if God and the universe depend on our speaking out our truth? (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Betzalel and the Honoring of Our Intuitive Knowing (Parashat Pekudei)
What if God and the universe wants and needs us to listen to that inkling, to that intuition, to that knowing? What if the world depends on it? (Click image to read more and listen)
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ESSAY: What Unites Our Fragmented Parts (Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei)
You are more important than the work. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: What Unites Our Fragmented Parts (Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei)
This meditation explores the relationship between the mishkan (Tabernacle), work and Shabbat. We start by noticing the multiplicity of vessels and labors and creations in the mishkan, noting that multiplicity inside ourselves as well, and feeling into the sense of overwhelm and fragmentation we sometimes experiece as a result. And then we consider what makes
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POEM: A Blessing (Parashat Pekudei)
Open your hands to receive the blessing — these hands that shape and create, that mold and hold tight . . . (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: All Parts Have a Place (Parashat Pekudei)
We see and honor each of our internal parts as having a place insde us, just as Moshe saw and anointed each of the vessels of the Mishkan (Tabernacle). (Click image to read more and listen)
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