Bereshit, בְּרֵאשִׁית
In the Beginning
Gen. 1:1-6:8
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.
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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
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We don’t have to be done with our work to celebrate. (Click image to read more)
In difficult times, our energy tends to get scattered and our focus, exclusively outward. But in such times, there is an even greater need for us to be well resourced internally so that we can hold the difficulty and act from this higher place, from the deep well inside us . Parashat Breishit offers us
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Together we create inside us a collective and personal space that can hold what is difficult in this moment. (Click image to read more)
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Adam and Chava, with their majestic garments of light, were like the kohen gadol, aglow with the new knoweldge, after sin and forgiveness, of who they really are at their core. (Click image to read more)
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God made “garments of skin,” or some say “garments of light” for Adam and Eve after their sin, and then God dressed them. (Click image to read more)
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(Originally published in 2020) The implication is that God looked at Adam and saw loneliness because God knew about loneliness. (Click image to read more)
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Why is God’s first creation light? We talk a lot about compassion, but often in addition to or maybe even before compassion, we need clarity. (Click image to read more)
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