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ESSAY: Looking Inwards Instead of Outwards (Parashat Shelach)

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.

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MEDITATION: Looking Inwards Instead of Outwards (Parashat Shelach)

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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WOW (Word of the Week): לתור, To Scout Out (Parashat Shelach)

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)

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MEDITATION: Holding Both the Fear and the Yud Inside Us (Parashat Shelach)

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”

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