Bereshit (Genesis)
We think it is about meeting expectations, but maybe it is really about receiving love.
ESSAY: Hagar And The Angels Who Find Us Wherever We Are (Parashat Lech Lecha) Read More »
We need not be Avraham to connect to God. We can be lonely and distraught in the desert, like Hagar, runinng away from our life. We can feel ashamed and dsiappointed in ourselves, and God will still send messengers to meet us where we are. The messengers won’t be perfect. They may say the wrong
MEDITATION: On Hagar and The Angels Who Find Us Wherever We Are (Parashat Lech Lecha) Read More »
Maybe you thnk – but the world is drowning, what right do I have to rest in this ark of comfort and love? I believe you not only have a right, but an obligation, that it is a form of activism.
ESSAY: Be The Calm Amidst The Storm (Parashat Noah) Read More »
We enter Noah’s ark amidst the storm, experiencing the safety, the calm, the rest, the light and the care. We then consider how we might become such a sanctuary, such a light ourselves.
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As if you are a newborn baby being laid gently in the comfy padded crib prepared for you. So it was in the Garden of Eden.
ESSAY: Returning To The Garden of Trust (Parashat Breishit) Read More »
What if the Garden of Eden is a state of mind? A state of mind that we can learn to cultivate and inhabit. What if it is not God who chased us out of the garden but we who left and continue to leave? And what if we could learn to return. Photo by upenderphotography
MEDITATION: Returning To The Garden of Trust (Parashat Breishit) Read More »
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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