Shlach, שְׁלַח-לְךָ
Send Out!
13:1-15:41
Stay steady with God’s gaze upon you. See yourself as God see you and remember who you really are. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Tzitzit: Remembering Who We Are (Parashat Shelach) Read More »
In this meditation, we look at the mitzvah of tzitzit as a symbol of our “tie” to God and as a reminder of who we really are in our divine essence and of the loving way in which God continually gazes upon us. Sources:Numbers 15:38-39Sefat Emet, Shelach 5635 (4:6)Psalms 97:11Midrash Tanchuma Shelach 15:1Rashi on Numbers
MEDITATION: Tzitzit: Remembering Who We are (Parashat Shelach) Read More »
Don’t compare yourself and feel like a grasshopper. Look inward and remember who you truly are. (Based on the story of the spies and the mitzvah of tzitzit) Click on image to read more.
ESSAY: Looking Inwards Instead of Outwards (Parashat Shelach) Read More »
Through the story of the spies and the mitzvah of tzitzit, we notice our tendency to compare ourselves to one another and practice looking inward instead, knowing our own completeness. (Click on image to read more and listen)
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In order to quell the fear and the doubt and the terrible feeling of not knowing, the groundlessness of uncertainy, we try to gain some certainty. We try “latur,” to scout out information . . . (Click image to read more)
WOW (Word of the Week): לתור, To Scout Out (Parashat Shelach) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the story of the scouts. We connect to the fear and the doubt that the 10 scouts and the Israelites felt. We find those places inside us that are terrified of new things, that feel like grasshoppers in some way. And then we also touch the place of the “yud”
MEDITATION: Holding Both the Fear and the Yud Inside Us (Parashat Shelach) Read More »
For a 12 minute meditation on Parashat Shelach, click here. (Or click on image and then click here). Photo by Any Lane of Pexels
MEDITATION: We Have All 12 Spies Inside Us (Parashat Shelach) Read More »