Bereshit (Genesis)
Together we create inside us a collective and personal space that can hold what is difficult in this moment. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Inner Resourcing For Difficult Times (Parashat Breishit) Read More »
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)
MEDITATION: Hope Amidst It All (Parashat Vayechi) Read More »
(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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Yaakov suffers.. His is a hard lot, symbolized by the rock he puts his head on. He is born into strife with his brother, and it follows him into his marriages and family life. He works tirelessly only to be cheated by his father in law, and, ever lurking in the background, is a brother
QUICK THOUGHT: What Good Do Angels Do? (Parashat Vayetze) Read More »
Maybe our feelings are angels, divine messengers sent to help us heal and grow. This parsha begins with angels (the ones in Yaakov’s ladder dream), and it ends with angels. I’d like to focus on the less well known concluding angels. After Yaakov leaves Haran with his family to return home, Lavan chases him in
ESSAY: Our Feelings Are Angels (Parashat Vayetze) Read More »