Lech-Lecha, לֶךְ-לְךָ

Lech-Lecha, לֶךְ-לְךָ
Go Forth!
12:1-17:27

MEDITATION: The God Who Sees My Suffering (Parashat Lech Lecha)

In her suffering, Hagar has an experience of God in the desert that fortifies her to return to her life. How can we, too, be strengthened? (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: To The Land That I will Show you (Parashat Lech Lecha)

Avram is called to step out onto a path toward a land that God will show him. We each recieve this call each day, a call to trust and be open to what God wants to show us, to let go of the (childhood and ancestral) burdens of control and fear and self doubt, and

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ESSAY: The Journey Toward Our Own Vastness (Parashat Lekh Lekha)

What we are being asked to do is move from the starting place of our small, situated human selves toward a self that is a part of the vast groundless blessedness of the divine. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Adding the “Heh” of Spaciousness (Parashat Lekh Lekha)

We are so much larger than we think! We contain the whole universe inside us. In this meditation, we work on opening up some space around our contracted parts by breathing in the extra letter “Heh” from Avraham’s new name along with the vastness of the earth and the stars in his divinely granted vision.

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