Parsha

MEDITATION: Being the Kohen for Our Afflicted Parts (Parashat Tazria-Metzora)

/ Tazria, תַזְרִיעַ, Meditations, Metzora, מְּצֹרָע

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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SHORT ESSAY: Don’t Leave Yourself Out of the Party — the Shelamim Sacrifice (Parashat Tzav)

/ Tzav, צַו

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)

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ESSAY: How Is God Calling To You? (Parashat Vayikra)

/ Vayikra, וַיִּקְרָא

How might the collapse itself, the doubt itself, be a call? (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: How Is God Calling To You? (Parashat Vayikra)

/ Vayikra, וַיִּקְרָא, Meditations

In this meditation, we explore God’s call to Moshe at the beginning of this parsha and ask the question: How is God calling to me at this moment? By delving into the word Vayikra with its small alef, and paying attention to its connection to the end of last week’s parsha, too, we deepen this

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ESSAY: What Unites Our Fragmented Parts (Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei)

/ Vayakhel, וַיַּקְהֵל, Pekudei, פְקוּדֵי

You are more important than the work. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: What Unites Our Fragmented Parts (Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei)

/ Meditations, Vayakhel, וַיַּקְהֵל, Pekudei, פְקוּדֵי

This meditation explores the relationship between the mishkan (Tabernacle), work and Shabbat. We start by noticing the multiplicity of vessels and labors and creations in the mishkan, noting that multiplicity inside ourselves as well, and feeling into the sense of overwhelm and fragmentation we sometimes experiece as a result. And then we consider what makes

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POEM: A Blessing (Parashat Pekudei)

/ Poetry, Pekudei, פְקוּדֵי

Open your hands to receive the blessing — these hands that shape and create, that mold and hold tight . . . (Click image to read more)

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ESSAY: Leaning in to Uncertainty (Parashat Ki Tisa)

/ Ki Tisa, כִּי תִשָּׂא

“Make us an idol because we don’t know what happened to Moshe.” What if they could have stayed with the unease of not knowing, allowed the feeling but not acted on it? What if we could do that?

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MEDITATION: Leaning In To Uncertainty (Parashat Ki Tisa)

/ Meditations, Ki Tisa, כִּי תִשָּׂא

What if the Israelites could have stayed with the feeling of uncertainty and unease, allowed the feeling but not acted on it? What if we could do that, learn to stay with the unease, with the questions, with the not knowing? (Click image to read more)

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WOW (Word of the Week): מאליה, “on its Own” (Parashat Tetzaveh)

/ Tetzaveh, תְּצַוֶּה

We need to absorb some of this “on its own” energy, the sense that everything will unfold on its own, just as it should, beautifully, if we will only allow it to, if we can only do what Moshe did . . . (Click image to read more)

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