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 […]
MEDITATION: Not Consumed By Our Raging Emotions (Parashat Vayakhel) Read More »
Come rest your frantic parts in this double sanctuary of stillness and presence. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Our Idolatrous Impulse And The Container(s) That Can Hold It (Parashat Ki Tisa) Read More »
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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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)
ESSAY: Carrying Others In Our Heart The Way The High Priest Does (Parashat Tetzaveh) Read More »
Whom do you carry on your shoulders and on your heart? (Click image to read more and listen)
“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)
ESSAY: From Swords to Angel Wings: Learning to Open Our Hearts (Parashat Terumah) Read More »
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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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)
ESSAY: Embodying The Alef Of “Anokhi” (Parashat Yitro) Read More »
There is a Hasidic tradition that the only thing God spoke at Mount Sinai was the first letter of the first commandment — the alef of the word anokhi, “I am.” In this meditation, we explore the power of this silent letter to heal and strengthen and empower us. א Sources:Exodus 20:2The Rebbe of Rumanov
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This passage holds both the pain of marginalization as well as the seeds of a future complete redemption and liberation. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Miriam And Her (Marginalized) Song of Empowerment (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »