Beha’alotecha, בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ

Behaalotecha, בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ
When You Raise
8:1-12:16

MEDITATION: Turning Towards Our Own Central Light (Parashat Beha’alotecha)

The menorah lights were lit in a way that they all pointed inwards towards the central shaft, the core of the menorah. In this meditation, we explore what that means for us internally, first finding our own place of centered, stable alignment, and then inviting all the parts of us that are so habitually focused

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SHORT ESSAY: Vayehi Beneso’a Ha’aron: Scattering Our “Enemies” and then Returning Them Home (Parashat Beha’alotecha)

Coming face to face with the strength of God in you, with this mighty, courageous, light-filled force, the fear, the judgment, the doubt, they relax a little — oh, someone is in charge, they see — they step back; they give space. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Vayehi Beneso’a Ha’aron: To Journey and To Rest (Parashat Beha’alotecha)

In this meditation, we explore the passage that is bracketed by upside down “nuns” in the Torah, a passage whose text is familiar to us from the Torah service in shul. First, we explore the feeling of rising up in divine power and having our internal “enemies” scatter in the face of that strength, and

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SHORT ESSAY: The Healing Middle (Parashat Beha’alotecha)

El na refa na lah (Numbers 12:13) —  These are the words Moshe uses to cry out to God on behalf of his sister Miriam when she is afflicted by a skin disease after gossiping about him and his Cushite wife.    O Lord please heal her.    Translated word for word it reads:  Lord, please,

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Parashat Beha’alotekha: On Healing

אל נא רפא נא לה El na refa na lah. O Lord, please heal her, please.(Numbers 12:13, in this week’s Torah portion) These five Hebrew words are Moshe’s prayer to God to heal his sister, Miriam, after she has been afflicted with leprosy as a divine punishment for speaking slanderously. The text tells us little

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