Yitro, יִתְרוֹ

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)

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

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)

(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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In this meditation, we journey together through the experience of revelation at Mount Sinai, and in seeing with clarity the power and strength of God’s “Anokhi” self, we find our own divinely implanted Self reflected and empowered. This reading is based on an idea of the Sefat Emet that, at Mount Sinai, “each one recognized

Vayehi kol hashofar holekh vehazek me’od. The sound of the shofar blast on Mount Sinai is described as getting stronger and stronger. Rashi points out that this is a sign of its divine origin; when a human being makes a sound, the sound gradually gets weaker and weaker; only God’s sound keeps increasing in strength.