QUICK THOUGHT: To the Land that I will Show you (Parashat Lech Lecha)
We are each an Avram slowly becoming an Avraham. (Click image to read more)
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Bereishit (Genesis)
Bereshit (Genesis)
MEDITATION: To The Land That I will Show you (Parashat Lech Lecha)
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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QUICK THOUGHT: Saving Yourself (Parashat Noah)
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)
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SHORT ESSAY: What We Wash Away in the Flood (Parashat Noah)
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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SHORT ESSAY: Garments of Light (Parashat Bereishit)
Adam and Chava, with their majestic garments of light, were like the kohen gadol, aglow with the new knoweldge, after sin and forgiveness, of who they really are at their core. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Garments of Light (Parashat Bereishit)
God made “garments of skin,” or some say “garments of light” for Adam and Eve after their sin, and then God dressed them. (Click image to read more)
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SHORT ESSAY: On Loneliness in the Creation Story (Parashat Bereishit)
(Originally published in 2020) The implication is that God looked at Adam and saw loneliness because God knew about loneliness. (Click image to read more)
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WOW (Word of the Week): ויחי, And He Lived (Parashat Vayechi)
What if, the next time you are sad or hurt or angry, you paused and reflected on the essential aliveness of these feelings, the way they feel intense and living inside you . . . .? (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: On “Chayut,” Aliveness (Parashat Vayechi)
This week’s parsha begins, Vayechi Yaakov, “Yaakov lived,” but it is a parsha about Yaakov’s death. In this meditation, we work on expanding our notion of aliveness in two ways: 1) As Yaakov had a very difficult life, but still vayechi, still loved, so we experiment with seeing our most difficult emotions as manifestations of
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WOW (Word of the Week): Goshen (Parashat Vayigash)
Goshen is the land of connection, the place where we arrive following all the strife of the book of Breishit, a place where we can glimpse the possibility of real connection and coming together. (Click image to read more)
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