The thing is, in order to let God in, you have to make space inside. I don’t know about you, but my inner world is pretty crowded, stuffed tight with worries and judgments . . . (Click image to read more)
SHORT ESSAY: Making Room For God To Dwell Inside You (Parashat Terumah) Read More »
False beliefs put you in a claustrophobic box, but truth will open the doors and the windows for you to step out into who you really are.
ESSAY: Putting Distance Around Our False Beliefs (Parashat Mishpatim) Read More »
In this meditation, we apply the phrase מדבר שקר תרחק, “keep yourself distant from falsehood’ (Ex. 23:7) to our inner falsehoods, to the core false beliefs about ourselves that lie hidden and unquestioned inside us, things like: “I am not enough” and “I don’t matter” and “I need to do everything just right.” We work
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You don’t need to knock on someone else’s door. You are whole in and of yourself. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Envy and Our Own Inherent Value (Parashat Yitro) Read More »
This meditation deals with the tenth commandment, lo tachmod, “you shall not covet” or envy what your neighbor has. Bringing to mind a situation in which we might feel some envy around the accomplishment or quality of another person, we then look at the healing response that the experience at Mount Sinai offers us —
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What stops you from singing your “zimrat yah,” your divine song? What voices from your past, like the chasing Egyptians, hold you back? (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: What Stops You From Singing Your Soul’s Song (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »
In this meditation, we focus on one line from the Song at the Sea: עזי וזמרת יה ויהי לי לישועה, “The Lord is my strength and my song. The Lord has become my deliverance” (Exodus 15:2), looking at the connection between strength and song, and then finally, deliverance. We consider the strength it takes to
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I give thanks for the glimpses within the night. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: The Revelation of that Night (Parashat Bo) Read More »
On the night of the last plague, at the exact midpoint of the night, its darkest time, amidst the anguished cries of the Egyptians, the Israelites, standing in their doorways painted with blood, experienced a revelation, what the rabbis refer to as giluy shechinah, “the revelation of divine presence.” The dogs stopped barking, the dough
MEDITATION: When the Dogs Stopped Barking (Parashat Bo) Read More »
He did not save himself. He learend to surrender to the saving that wanted to happen. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Floating into Redemption (Parashat Va’era) Read More »