Parsha

MEDITATION: Filling Up With Divine Love (Parashat Eikev)

In this meditation, we look at the phrase ואכלת ושבעת וברכת, “You shall eat and be satisfied and give thanks,” as a spiritual process of opening, filling up and overflowing with divine love. (Click image to read more)

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ESSAY: Holding On to the Connection (Parashat Va’etchanan and Tisha B’Av)

The captain of the ship said — grab hold of this rope and whatever you do, don’t let go of it. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Holding On to the Connection (Parashat Va’etchanan and Tisha B’Av)

Holding fast to our lifeline in times of trouble helps us stay afloat. (Click image to read more and to listen. )

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ESSAY: Not Missing A Thing (Parashat Devarim)

What would it feel like to inhabit such an emotional space, where we really feel that nothing is lacking, that everything we need is right here? (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Not Missing A Thing (Parashat Devarim)

What would it feel like to inhabit such an emotional space, where we really feel that nothing is lacking, that everything we need is right here? (Click image to read more and to listen)

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ESSAY: Our Healing Journey (Parashat Matot-Masei)

Trusting that each station in our lives is part of such a sacred process of growth.
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MEDITATION: Our Healing Journey (Parashat Matot-Masei)

Parashat Masei begins with a list of the 42 stops on the Israelites’ desert journey. There is a famous midrash which compares this list to the recounting of a father who has taken his ill child on a journey to be healed. Applying this midrash to ourselves, we look at our own life journey, with

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ESSAY: Being the Space Between: Becoming a Leader for Your Own System (Parashat Pinchas)

You are not your anxiety or your fear of even your helpless inner child. You are something way beyond that. You are the spirit that holds them all. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: The Internal Leadership of Spaciousness (Parashat Pinchas)

Moshe asks God to appoint a leader in his stead before he dies so that the people will not be like sheep without a shepherd. In this meditation, we consider the ways in which our internal systems often feel leaderless and the ways we might learn to be stronger internal leaders for our parts. We

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ESSAY: On Moshe’s Mistake and Being People of Growth (Parashat Chukat-Balak)

Moshe may have given up on us, but God never does. God knows that we are in our essence people of growth. (Click image to read more)

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