Parsha

MEDITATION: Betzalel and the Honoring of Our Intuitive Knowing (Parashat Pekudei)

What if God and the universe wants and needs us to listen to that inkling, to that intuition, to that knowing? What if the world depends on it? (Click image to read more and listen)

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ESSAY: Not Consumed By Fire (Parashat Vayakhel)

You are not your anxiety. You are the you that is anchored in your shabbat resting place. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Not Consumed By Our Raging Emotions (Parashat Vayakhel)

In this meditation, we look at the Shabbat prohibition of “not kindling a fire in all your dwelling places” (Exodus 35:3) in dialogue with the burning bush incident, interpreting the “fire” as any strong emotion that threatens to consume you and understanding the prohibition against kindling such a fire “in all your dwelling places” as

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ESSAY: Our Idolatrous Impulse And The Container(s) That Can Hold It (Parashat Ki Tisa)

Come rest your frantic parts in this double sanctuary of stillness and presence. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Idolatry: Looking Out Instead of In (Parashat Ki Tisa)

In this meditation, we look at the Golden Calf and our tendency to idolatry as a search for redemption in people and things other than God. We explore the urgency, anxiety and restlessness brough on by this constant external search and then feel into how the surrounding container of shabbat and mishkan (tabernacle) –inside us

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ESSAY: Carrying Others In Our Heart The Way The High Priest Does (Parashat Tetzaveh)

Whom do you carry on your shoulders and in your heart? Here is what is different about how the Kohen Gadol did it . . . (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Carrying Others In Our Heart The Way The High Priest Does (Parashat Tetzaveh)

Whom do you carry on your shoulders and on your heart? (Click image to read more and listen)

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ESSAY: From Swords to Angel Wings: Learning to Open Our Hearts (Parashat Terumah)

“I will meet you there,” God says. But are we open to it? What about those angels of destruction standing in the way? (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: From Swords to Angel Wings: Learning to Open Our Hearts (Parashat Terumah)

In this meditation, we look closely at the keruvim, the child-like angel figures that stood on top of the ark in the Tabernacle. It is from between these keruvim that God is said to speak and meet us. Finding this place in our own heart space, we explore what blocks us from this open access

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ESSAY: Embodying The Alef Of “Anokhi” (Parashat Yitro)

When God revealed Godself, God chose to bring into this broken world this single letter to heal us and strengthen us. What is its power? (Click image to read more)

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