MEDITATION: Divine Love As The Antidote to Revenge (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim and Yom Ha’atzmaut)
It is precisely into this space of impossibility that God enters.
Acharei Mot, אַחֲרֵי מוֹת
Acharei Mot, אַחֲרֵי מוֹת After the Death 16:1-18:30
ESSAY: From “Less Than” To Overflowing With Love (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim)
All the other judgments and lenses — the reason you are “less than” — they are like chaff that gets blown away in the wind, leaving behind the core kernel of who you are, the solidness of your inherent sacredness. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: From “Less Than” to Overflowing With Love (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim)
The section of mitzvot at the begininng of Parashat Kedoshim invites us into a radical re-invisioning of how we structure society and see ourselves and each other. It is inviting us to move from a power dominated perspective in which some are considered “less than” to a consciousness that is centered on love and the
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QUICK THOUGHT: Enter With Only This (Parashat Acharei Mot)
If you want to come into the divine sanctuary, you cannot do so with “kol et,” weighed down by all of time, by all the traums of the past and the worries over the future. Enter only with “zot,” with this moment. (Click image to read more)
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SHORT ESSAY: Two Thoughts on Parashat Acharei-Mot/Kedoshim
#1: On Kedushah (Holiness) According to some Hasidic commentators, kedushah refers not to the content of what you are permitted to do or to eat, but to the way that you go about doing or eating it. What is required by kedushah, they say, is to take every action b’yishuv hada’at , with a settled
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