In this meditation, we explore what it might feel like to connect to God in this reciprocal way, to know that it is not just that we yearn for God, but also that God yearns for us. (Click image to read more and to listen)
MEDITATION: Back and Forth — Our Reciprocal Relationship With God (Parashat Ki Tavo) Read More »
Here, in the season of teshuva, of returning home to God and to our true selves, we read about another mitzvah of return, using the same root, shuv – hashavat avedah, the mitzvah of returning lost items to their owners. I want to offer a reading of this mitzvah of returning lost objects in
ESSAY: The Return of Our Lost Parts (Parashat Ki Teitzei) Read More »
The mitzvah of returning lost items is read as the retrieval and ingathering of lost parts of ourselves. What parts of you are asking to be brought home this season? (Click image to read more and listen)
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This place of refuge is not a place of judgment or perfection, but a place to be held in the mess of your own life with love and forgiveness. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Our Inner City of Refuge (Parashat Shoftim) Read More »
In this meditation, we work on finding and strengthening places of refuge inside us where there is forgiveness and atonement and healing, where we are held in all our imperfections and returned to a sense of belonging. Sources:Deuteronomy 19:1-8Rashi on Deuteronomy 19:3Psalm 27:4Maimonides, Laws of the Murderer and Loss of Life, 8: 5-6, 11Psalm 91:1Deuteronomy
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Keep adding chairs to the table, drawing the circle wider to include them all. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Gathering In All Parts of You (Parashat Re’eh) Read More »
Again and again in this parsha, the Torah talks about gathering all the members of your household together to hamakom, to the place where God resides, and being sameach, joyful, there. In this meditation we work on gathering in all parts of ourselves to hamakom, to the place of inner divine spaciousness, inviting in each
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וְאָכַלְתָּ֖ וְשָׂבָ֑עְתָּ וּבֵֽרַכְתָּ֙
Opening, filling up and overflowing — becoming a channel for the divine flow of love in the universe. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Filling Up With Divine Love (Parashat Eikev) Read More »
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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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)
ESSAY: Holding On to the Connection (Parashat Va’etchanan and Tisha B’Av) Read More »