Bereishit (Genesis)

Bereshit (Genesis)

MEDITATION: On Planting Seeds and Receiving Blessing (Parashat Toldot)

How do we attain true divine blessing — by grasping and chasing or by planting and trusting? (Click here to read more and listen)

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ESSAY: Entering the Sanctuary of Sarah’s Tent (Parashat Chayei Sarah)

When the world around us becomes full of very real, concrete and seemingly irresolvable conflict, we need to spend some time in this sanctuary and remember the miraculous. (Click here to read more)

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MEDITATION: Entering the Sanctuary of Sarah’s Tent (Parashat Chayei Sarah)

We enter into the sanctuary created by Sarah inside ourselves, finding our own comfort and hope and a renewed capacity for love. (Click image to read more and listen)

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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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ESSAY: An Ark of Kindness Through a Flood of Violence (Parashat Noah)

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

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