Lech-Lecha, לֶךְ-לְךָ
Go Forth!
12:1-17:27
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
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Even though it’s scary and uncomfortable to be on this unclear journey, it feels better than you imagine. Because you don’t do it alone. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: To The Land That I Will Show You (Parashat Lech Lecha) Read More »
This meditation explores the inner landscape that God is inviting us into in the call to Avram and to each of us to move towards “the land that I will show you,” to step out of our past conditioning and into an unknown land — together with God — to allow ourselves to open to
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Hagar names God, a radically intimate and empowered act. What name would you give God? (Click image to read more)
QUICK THOUGHT: Naming God (Parashat Lech Lecha) Read More »
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)
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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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