Bereshit (Genesis)
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)
QUICK THOUGHT: Saving Yourself (Parashat Noah) Read More »
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)
SHORT ESSAY: What We Wash Away in the Flood (Parashat Noah) Read More »
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)
SHORT ESSAY: Garments of Light (Parashat Bereishit) Read More »
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)
MEDITATION: Garments of Light (Parashat Bereishit) Read More »
(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)
SHORT ESSAY: On Loneliness in the Creation Story (Parashat Bereishit) Read More »
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)
WOW (Word of the Week): ויחי, And He Lived (Parashat Vayechi) Read More »
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
MEDITATION: On “Chayut,” Aliveness (Parashat Vayechi) Read More »
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)
WOW (Word of the Week): Goshen (Parashat Vayigash) Read More »
On that day, the earth shook with sorrow/ and the farmer who was seeding, paused mid-row (Click image to read more)
POEM: The Great Cry (Parashat Vayigash) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the emotional complexity of the first scene of the parsha . . . (Click image for more)
MEDITATION: Glimpsing Goshen: the Land of Connection (Parashat Vayigash) Read More »