In this meditation, we look at the laws of the shmita or sabbatical year — abstaining from growth-promoting work on the land– in relation to our inner work on ourselves. We notice our strong tendency to strive, and we explore ways of relaxing into the divine abundance that nourishes and heals us without our effort, […]
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AT the end of this period, the Torah says — bring close a new gift to God. We ourselves are that something new. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: On “Sefirah” and the Growth Process (Parashat Emor) Read More »
At the end of the 49 day count known as Sefirat Ha-Omer, the Torah says that we are to bring a minchah hadashah lashem, a new gift to God. In this meditation, we look at this Sefirah period as an incubation or gestational period of inner growth in which we gradually come into a new
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It’s a lot, the weight of the many needs and demands on us like the clamor of a thousand hungry children pulling at our apron strings. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: A Holding Container For It All (Parashat Kedoshim) Read More »
We carry so much weight, so many worries and needs. Ani Hashem — I am God. There is vast holding container that can hold it all. (Click image to read more and to listen)
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We run every which way trying to get what we need, when the very thing that would help us is not to run, but to stay. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: What is Enough? (Parashat Shemini) Read More »
On the eighth day, after much preparation and anticipation, to much fanfare, the Glory of God finally appears in the Tabernacle and the people sing out and fall on their faces in joy and awe. At this moment, Nadav and Avihu, the two sons of Aaron, grab their pans and their own fire and bring
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As the mishkan gets built and dismantled, built and dismantled — as our lives go through their ups and their downs — the Torah’s advice is: stay grounded in your seat in the sanctuary. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Staying Centered Through the Ups and Downs (Parashat Tzav) Read More »
There is a tradition that during the 7 day period of the miluim, the days of practice and initiation before the tabernacle was officially consecrated on day 8, during each of those 7 days, Moshe erected and took down the mishkan (Midrash Tanchuma Pekudei 11). We look at this practice of construction and dismantling as
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What if, like Betzalel, we are not wrong? What if God and the universe depend on our speaking out our truth? (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Betzalel and the Honoring of Our Intuitive Knowing (Parashat Pekudei) Read More »