QUICK THOUGHT: Naming God (Parashat Lech Lecha)
Hagar names God, a radically intimate and empowered act. What name would you give God? (Click image to read more)
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Lech-Lecha, לֶךְ-לְךָ
Go Forth!
12:1-17:27
Hagar names God, a radically intimate and empowered act. What name would you give God? (Click image to read more)
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What do we need when we are suffering? To be seen, both in our suffering and in our wholeness. Learn from Hagar. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: The God Who Sees All of Me (Parashat Lech Lecha) Read More »
Here is what calls out to me in the parsha this week — the breadth of God’s concern for human suffering. (Click image to read more)
QUICK THOUGHT: God Sees Hagar’s Suffering (Parashat Lech Lecha) Read More »
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)
MEDITATION: The God Who Sees My Suffering (Parashat Lech Lecha) Read More »
We are each an Avram slowly becoming an Avraham. (Click image to read more)
QUICK THOUGHT: To the Land that I will Show you (Parashat Lech Lecha) Read More »
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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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)
ESSAY: The Journey Toward Our Own Vastness (Parashat Lekh Lekha) Read More »
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.
MEDITATION: Adding the “Heh” of Spaciousness (Parashat Lekh Lekha) Read More »