Yitro, יִתְרוֹ

Yitro, יִתְרוֹ Jethro 18:1-20:22

ESSAY: Clearing Space For Divine Connection (Parashat Yitro)

Without Yitro’s intervention, without that clearing of space for Moshe, the revelation might not have been possible.

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MEDITATION: Clearing Space For Divine Connection (Parashat Yitro)

You are the vessel of that healing energy.

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ESSAY: God’s Support For Moshe’s Voice and Our Own (Parashat Yitro)

What would it feel like to have God offering you support in claiming your voice, helping you to amplify it and strengthen it so that you can speak your piece of the divine truth into the world?   God offered Moshe that kind of support at Mount Sinai.  In the midst of the thunder and lightning

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MEDITATION: God’s Support for Moshe’s Voice And Our Own (Parashat Yitro)

Love is “the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another person’s spiritual growth.” (Click on image to read more and listen)

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ESSAY: Embodying The Alef Of “Anokhi” (Parashat Yitro)

When God revealed Godself, God chose to bring into this broken world this single letter to heal us and strengthen us. What is its power? (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Embodying The Alef Of “Anokhi” (Parashat Yitro)

There is a Hasidic tradition that the only thing God spoke at Mount Sinai was the first letter of the first commandment — the alef of the word anokhi, “I am.” In this meditation, we explore the power of this silent letter to heal and strengthen and empower us. א Sources:Exodus 20:2The Rebbe of Rumanov

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ESSAY: Envy and Our Own Inherent Value (Parashat Yitro)

You don’t need to knock on someone else’s door. You are whole in and of yourself. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Envy and Our Own Inherent Value (Parashat Yitro)

This meditation deals with the tenth commandment, lo tachmod, “you shall not covet” or envy what your neighbor has. Bringing to mind a situation in which we might feel some envy around the accomplishment or quality of another person, we then look at the healing response that the experience at Mount Sinai offers us —

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WOW (Word of the Week): אנכי, “I” (Parashat Yitro)

Maybe in the spectacular revelation of God’s “Anokhi” self, we also find the capacity to return home to the fullness of our own selves. (Click image to read more)

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SHORT ESSAY: 10 Steps to Revelation (Parashat Yitro)

(Originally published in 2021)
1. Acccept wisdom from wherever it appears, even “outsiders.”
2. You can’t do it alone.
3. Don’t be too busy to witness the divine.
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