Bereshit (Genesis)
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 […]
MEDITATION: An Ark of Kindness Through a Flood of Violence (Parashat Noah) Read More »
In difficult times, our energy tends to get scattered and our focus, exclusively outward. But in such times, there is an even greater need for us to be well resourced internally so that we can hold the difficulty and act from this higher place, from the deep well inside us . Parashat Breishit offers us
ESSAY: Inner Resourcing for Difficult Times (Parashat Bereishit) Read More »
Together we create inside us a collective and personal space that can hold what is difficult in this moment. (Click image to read more)
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There is spaciousness in these words, the spaciousness of dropping what we are doing and suddenly turning toward God amidst it all. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Hope Amidst It All (Parashat Vayechi) Read More »
In the middle of Yaakov’s final words to his children, he suddenly turns to God in prayer with three words — לישועתך קויתי ה, “I hope for Your salvation, O Lord!” (Click image to read more)
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(Originally published in 2020) In these two parshiyot, we witness Yosef’s healing from trauma. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: On Yosef’s Healing Process (Parashat Miketz and Parashat Vayigash) Read More »
Dedicated to the memory of Gavriella Bader, z”l, a caring friend to my children and a beautiful human being. May her memory be a blessing, as her life was a blessing. Yaakov is inconsolable at what he thinks is his son Yosef’s death. His children come to comfort him and vayema’en lehitnahem, “he refuses to
ESSAY: Crying with the Inconsolable (Parashat Vayeshev) Read More »
This meditation is dedicated to the memory of Gavriella Bader, z”l, a caring friend to my children and a beautiful human being. May her memory be a blessing, as her life was a blessing, and may the family be comforted by God among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. In this meditation we consider Yaakov’s
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It is partly the struggle that teaches us, the experience of standing face to face with some other, the experience of holding our own while another person holds their own. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Coming to Know Our Own Strength Through Wrestling (Parashat Vayishlach) Read More »
Yaakov needed this angel in order to learn that he was not small and insecure, as he thought, but strong and infinitely capable. In this meditation, we explore who these angels are inside us and how we can encounter them to know our own strength. (Click image to read more and listen)
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