POEM: The Great Cry (Parashat Vayigash)
On that day, the earth shook with sorrow/ and the farmer who was seeding, paused mid-row (Click image to read more)
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Bereishit (Genesis)
Bereshit (Genesis)
MEDITATION: Glimpsing Goshen: the Land of Connection (Parashat Vayigash)
In this meditation, we explore the emotional complexity of the first scene of the parsha . . . (Click image for more)
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WOW (Word of the Week): אחד, One (Parashat Miketz)
חלום פרעה אחד הוא
Pharaoh’s dream is one.
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SHORT ESSAY: Becoming a Vessel (Chanukah and Parashat Vayeshev)
(Originally published in December 2020) The Chanukah menorah is a kli, a vessel, to hold the oil or the candles that bring light into the world. Light needs a container. In order for blessing to enter this world, it needs a container. In the book of Kings (II Kings 4), when a destitute woman
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WOW (Word of the Week): את (Parashat Vayeshev)
ויהי ה’ את יוסף, “And God was with Yosef” (Click image to read more)
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WOW (Word of the Week): ותוכל (Parashat Vayishlach)
You are capable. Go out and conquer the world. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: “You have Prevailed”: Feeling Our Own Strength (Parashat Vayishlach)
Yaakov struggles with the angel and is told, vatukhal, “you have prevailed.” In this meditation, we work with our own struggles and fears and find the strength and resililence to meet them face to face and feel our capacity to handle what is difficult. Photo by Snapwire from Pexels
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SHORT ESSAY: Yaakov’s Rebirth (Parashat Vayishlach)
(Originally published in December 2020) Yaakov’s struggle with a “man” the night before he meets up with his brother Esav can be read as a rebirth. It is a transformative experience at the end of which he receives a name change, as if born anew with a fresh way of being in the world.
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SHORT ESSAY: From Hamakom to Hamakom: Being Where We Are Right Now (Parashat Vayetze)
When we fully rest in hamakom, in the place of today, whatever it is, we open up access to another hamakom, to God, to the ultimate Place of the World. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Resting in “Hamakom” — This Place (Parashat Vayetze)
Yaakov stopped on his journey away from home at Hamakom, “the place.” In this meditation, we intrepret hamakom to mean where he was at that moment, the emotional space he was in, a fearful, lonely space. We imitate Yaakov’s instinct to rest in the place that he was in — in its hard rocks —
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