This meditation offers an opportunity to inhabit this experience of being counted by God with love. (Click image to read more)
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What would it feel like to do this internally, to return to our original essence, to our soul, to reclaim ourselves? (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: The Jubilee Year and Your Return to Yourself (Parashat Behar-Bechukotai) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the yovel (jubilee) year’s instruction to return “each person to his holding,” understanding this internally as referring to a return to our soul, to our essence, after an inevitable distancing and shutting down through life and social and cutlural norms. Using bird imagery and river imagery which both emerge from
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Shabbat teaches us our own infinite value as a radiant gem in the world, and we can learn to inhabit that identity. (Click image for more)
ESSAY: Our Inner Shabbat Resting Place (Parashat Emor) Read More »
Shabbat is the first of the holidays listed in this week’s parsha. In this meditation, we explore what it means to disidentify with our work and to find inside ourselves our inner Shabbat Resting Place. We notice the fluttering of our anxious parts, like little birds, and help them come to rest, like Noah’s dove,
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All the other judgments and lenses — the reason you are “less than” — they are like chaff that gets blown away in the wind, leaving behind the core kernel of who you are, the solidness of your inherent sacredness. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: From “Less Than” To Overflowing With Love (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim) Read More »
The section of mitzvot at the begininng of Parashat Kedoshim invites us into a radical re-invisioning of how we structure society and see ourselves and each other. It is inviting us to move from a power dominated perspective in which some are considered “less than” to a consciousness that is centered on love and the
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We can help each other and our own afflicted parts see themselves as the kohen sees them, as only temporarily imbalanced, temporarily afflicted, but always essentially whole, essentially pure. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Being the Kohen For Our Afflicted Parts (Parashat Tazria-Metzora) Read More »
In this meditation, we practice inhabiting our inner kohen, our capacity to be God’s representative on earth. Like the kohen — vera’ah hakohen — we look at our own tzaru’a, afflicted parts, through this divine lens, seeing our afflictions with optimisim and spaciousness and steadfast love, confident and patient about our own process of healing
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This is the traingle of wholeness and peace — self, other and God. Which one of these facings is most difficult for us? (Click image to read more)