Bereshit (Genesis)
Coats can be taken away from you. But this other thing we are talking about, that can never be taken away. It is the core of who you are.
ESSAY: Shedding Coats Like Yosef (Parashat Vayeshev) Read More »
Who are you without that external coat of specialness and superiority? Underneath, what Yosef found, was God and his own divine core.
MEDITATION: Shedding Coats Like Yosef (Parashat Vayeshev) Read More »
Yaakov remained alone that night, wrestling and healing and discovering his own wholeness. And it was this inner work that made all the difference.
ESSAY: Coming Into Wholeness Through Alone Time (Parashat Vayishlach) Read More »
In this meditation, we look at Yaakov’s night levad, alone, the night before he meets Esav and consider what he learned from that night of wrestling with himself and God, how he came into some greater awareness of his own separateness and completeness through a “face to face” connection with God. We consider our own
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Is the only way to receive a blessing to pretend to be someone else? (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Blessed For Being You (Parashat Toldot) Read More »
Yaakov gets a blessing by pretending to be his brother Esav. In this meditation, we consider the pain of this messaging, the pain of feeling that in some way who you are naturally is not enough, and that you need to act like someone else to deserve blessing and honor and love. We work with
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Come for a moment out of the cold into the quiet warmth and love and comfort of Sarah’s tent. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Come Rest in Sarah’s Tent (Parashat Chayei Sarah) Read More »
In this meditation, we enter into Sarah’s tent and experience the quiet divine presence and nourishment we need. Like Yitzhak, we bring our grief and our loneliness and are loved and comforted (Genesis 24:67). Come in out of the cold and rest in Sarah’s tent with us. Photo by Monica Silvestre at Pexels
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A radical reading of the Sarah and Avraham story that asks us to re-center Sarah — the one in the tent — and ourselves. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Centering Sarah and Ourselves (Parashat Vayera) Read More »
In this meditation, we consider Sarah’s de-centering and neglect by Avraham and ultimate centering by God in the phrase vaHashem pakad et Sarah, “And God took notice of Sarah” (Genesis 21:1). We look at Avraham’s tendency to face outward and not inward and at our own tendency to do the same towards ourselves, how we
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