Noach, נֹחַ
Noah
6:9-11:32
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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What do you do when you are feeling overwhelmed or flooded? Make for yourself a safe haven, God tells Noah. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Building A Sanctuary For Your Internal Floods (Parashat Noah) Read More »
In this meditation, we consider our own experience of being flooded and overwhelmed emotionally, and how building ourselves a safe place — like Noah’s ark — might help us learn to regulate and return to a state of calm. We take the time to imagine such a sanctuary inside ourselves and to feel God’s peaceful
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Maybe you can hear the command to make a “tzohar” in the ark as a divine invitation to tend to that light in your own ark. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Tending to Your Light Through The Storm (Parashat Noah) Read More »
How has your light, your sacred fire of hope and passion and agency, been dimmed by the storms and winds of life? How can you tend to it now and preserve it, hold it close and share it? (Click image to read more and to listen)
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We are, like Noah, surrounded by a flood, a flood of violence, death and destruction. And we are in danger of falling into this storm, being sucked under, emotionally flooded, overwhelmed by despair and dread and powerlessness. How do we navigate this situation and stay afloat in the flood? How do we respond in a
ESSAY: An Ark of Kindness Through a Flood of Violence (Parashat Noah) Read More »
During the flood, Noah and his family spent their time taking care of the many varied needs of the animals in the ark. They rode through a sea of death and destruction in a vehicle of kindness. In this meditation, we consider this story as a model for our own beleaguered state of being, and
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God’s instructions to Noah for building an ark are reminiscent of the instructions for the consctruction of the Tabernacle. (Click image to read more)
QUICK THOUGHT: Saving Yourself (Parashat Noah) Read More »
What are the false beliefs and habits of mind and burdens that we would do well to wash away in a flood? (Click image to read more)
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