ESSAY: Letting Go Into God’s Healing (Parashat Va’era)
Unclenching from the tree branch you have been clinging to your whole life and trusting enough to let go and fall into God.
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Va’era, וָאֵרָא
Va’eira, וָאֵרָא And I Appeared 6:2-9:35
MEDITATION: Letting Go Into God’s Healing (Parashat Va’era)
I can’t. You (God) can. I will let You. Surrendering and opening to God’s healing energies inside us.
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ESSAY: Breathing God In (Parashat Va’era)
Who is in charge inside –Pharaoh or God? (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Breathing God In (Parashat Va’era)
When Moshe came to the Israelites with the good news of God’s redemption, they could not hear him because of “shortness of breath” and “hard work” (Exodus 6:9). In this meditation, we explore our own shortness of breath in relation to the pressures of a fast paced, productivity oriented society and we consider how we
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ESSAY: When We Are Closed — Learning to Breathe (Parashat Va’era)
The Israelites could not hear Moshe because of “kotzer ruah,” shortness of breath. How do we learn to breathe deeply and let God in? (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: When We Are Closed — Learning To Breathe (Parashat Va’era)
The Israelites could not hear Moshe because of “kotzer ruah,” shortness of breath. How do we learn to breathe deeply and let God in? (Click image to read more)
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ESSAY: Floating into Redemption (Parashat Va’era)
He did not save himself. He learend to surrender to the saving that wanted to happen. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Relaxing into Redemption (Parashat Va’era)
In order to achieve our own redemption, we need to become like Moshe in his ability to surrender to God and to open to the divine redemptive process. (Click image to read more)
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WOW (Word of the Week): “Aral Sefatayim” — Reclaiming Our Voice (Parashat Va’era)
In our childhood, an angel helps us choose survival, but at what cost? What is lost of ourselves and our voices in the choice? (Click image to read more)
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SHORT ESSAY: The Stages of Redemption (Parashat Va’era)
(Originally published in January 2021) For the Israelites, true redemption from slavery was not just a removal from danger and suffering, but a movement into relationship with God. (Click image to read more)
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