Parashat Masei begins with a list of the 42 stops on the Israelites’ desert journey. There is a famous midrash which compares this list to the recounting of a father who has taken his ill child on a journey to be healed. Applying this midrash to ourselves, we look at our own life journey, with […]
MEDITATION: Our Healing Journey (Parashat Matot-Masei) Read More »
You are not your anxiety or your fear of even your helpless inner child. You are something way beyond that. You are the spirit that holds them all. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Being the Space Between: Becoming a Leader for Your Own System (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »
Moshe asks God to appoint a leader in his stead before he dies so that the people will not be like sheep without a shepherd. In this meditation, we consider the ways in which our internal systems often feel leaderless and the ways we might learn to be stronger internal leaders for our parts. We
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Moshe may have given up on us, but God never does. God knows that we are in our essence people of growth. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: On Moshe’s Mistake and Being People of Growth (Parashat Chukat-Balak) Read More »
In the incident of the rock, Moshe says to the people, before he hits the rock, Shimu na hamorim, “listen up, you rebels” (Numbers 20:10). In this meditation, we explore the ways that such harsh words and negative assessments, both internal and external, hurt us, and we consider the possibility of substituting for such harshness
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All those parts were looking outside of us, but everything we need is right here inside. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Turning Towards Our Own Central Light (Parashat Beha’alotecha) Read More »
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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Birkat Kohanim, the Priestly Blessing, is an invitation into an alternate divine realm tthat can offer us nourishment as we make our way in this often troubled human world. (Click image to read more)
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We have reached the center, and the center is light. (Click image to read more and to listen)
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By counting us out of love, God loves us into counting, into mattering, into knowing our own value (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Counted In Love — Loved Into Counting (Parashat Bamidbar) Read More »