Va’era, וָאֵרָא

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)

He did not save himself. He learend to surrender to the saving that wanted to happen. (Click image to read more)

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)

(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)

In what ways are we like Pharaoh? There is some truth out there that keeps knocking at our door – plague after plague, sign after sign– and we stubbornly refuse to hear it. And this stubbornness, this refusal to change, to shift our views and actions based on experience, this refusal to “let them go,” to

God first appeared (last week) to Moshe as a burning bush. Maybe this was a test: What made God decide to speak to him, to choose him as His partner on earth? “Moshe said: I must turn aside to look at this marvelous sight; why doesn’t the bush burn up?” It was Moshe’s ability to