Vayishlach, וַיִּשְׁלַח

In this meditation, we look at Yaakov’s night levad, alone, the night before he meets Esav and consider what he learned from that night of wrestling with himself and God, how he came into some greater awareness of his own separateness and completeness through a “face to face” connection with God. We consider our own

After Yaakov wrestles with the angel, injuring his hip, the next morning the Torah says, vayizrach lo hashemesh, “the sun shone for him” (Genesis 32:32). The midrash explains that the sun came out to heal him after his injury. In this meditation, we explore what it would feel like to imagine that the sun was

We can, like Yaakov, move out of hiding to step into our own larger Yisrael self, to feel our own power, strength, confidence and divine essence. (Click image to read more and to listen)

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)

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