Don’t compare yourself and feel like a grasshopper. Look inward and remember who you truly are. (Based on the story of the spies and the mitzvah of tzitzit) Click on image to read more.
ESSAY: Looking Inwards Instead of Outwards (Parashat Shelach) Read More »
Through the story of the spies and the mitzvah of tzitzit, we notice our tendency to compare ourselves to one another and practice looking inward instead, knowing our own completeness. (Click on image to read more and listen)
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The central commandment of the shmita year is to not work your land. What if we apply this sabbatical concept to our internal work and take a break from working our process, from tilling our own internal landscape? Consider what is prohibited on the shmita year – no sowing, planting, pruning, harvesting, or cultivating the
ESSAY: A Sabbatical for Our Strivers (Parashat Behar) Read More »
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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