Bereshit (Genesis)
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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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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“And the two of them walked on together,” Avraham and Yitzhak, each of us and our young ones, and God”s shining face upon us. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Learning To Walk With Your Inner Child (Rosh Hashanah) Read More »
In this meditation, I offer a reading of the Akedah (the Binding of Isaac) from the lens of the inner child, focusing on two pivotal moments in the text — the first, when Avraham and Yitzhak “walk together” and the second, when Avraham binds up his son. We explore these in terms of our own
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When we are really struggling, how do we move out of a place of stuckness? How do we find the resources to emerge, not to keep getting sucked down into the whirlpool of hopelessness and helplessness, of fear and anxiety and collapse? Yaakov must have known something about this. He suffered for years over
ESSAY: The Angel That Redeems You (Parashat Vayechi) Read More »
We cannot redeem ourselves through our ordinary human capacities. Redemption only comes through surrender to the divine plane, to the angel that is always waiting to redeem us. In this meditation, we work with the famous phrase (and song) hamalakh hagoel oti (Genesis 48:16) that Yaakov said as a blessing to Yosef and his sons,
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Yosef is given a special coat by his father, a kutonet pasim, a fine striped tunic, as a symbol of his status as his father’s favorite, most beloved child (Genesis 37:3). Growing up with his father treating him this way, it is no surprise that Yosef’s dreams betray this sense of superiority, with visions of
ESSAY: It Is My Brothers That I Seek (Parashat Vayeshev) Read More »
In this meditation, we look at issues of superiority and inferiority in the Yosef story and our own tendencies to live through the lens of constant comparison to others. And then we touch into our deepest desire, which, like Yosef, is ultimately to seek “our brothers” and our sisters, to seek fellowship and peer connection,
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