Parsha

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

/ Meditations, Chukat, חֻקַּת, Balak, בָּלָק

In the incident of the rock, Moshe says to the people, before he hits the rock, Shimu na hamorim, “listen up, you rebels” (Numbers 20:10). In this meditation, we explore the ways that such harsh words and negative assessments, both internal and external, hurt us, and we consider the possibility of substituting for such harshness […]

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ESSAY: Turning Towards Our Own Central Light (Parashat Beha’alotecha)

/ Beha'alotecha, בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ

All those parts were looking outside of us, but everything we need is right here inside. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Turning Towards Our Own Central Light (Parashat Beha’alotecha)

/ Beha'alotecha, בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ, Meditations

The menorah lights were lit in a way that they all pointed inwards towards the central shaft, the core of the menorah. In this meditation, we explore what that means for us internally, first finding our own place of centered, stable alignment, and then inviting all the parts of us that are so habitually focused

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ESSAY: The Priestly Blessing (Parashat Naso)

/ Naso, נָשֹׂא

Birkat Kohanim, the Priestly Blessing, is an invitation into an alternate divine realm tthat can offer us nourishment as we make our way in this often troubled human world. (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: The Priestly Blessing (Parashat Naso)

/ Naso, נָשֹׂא, Meditations

We have reached the center, and the center is light. (Click image to read more and to listen)

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ESSAY: Counted In Love — Loved Into Counting (Parashat Bamidbar)

/ Bamidbar, בְּמִדְבַּר

By counting us out of love, God loves us into counting, into mattering, into knowing our own value (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: Counted in Love — Loved into Counting (Parashat Bamidbar)

/ Bamidbar, בְּמִדְבַּר, Meditations

This meditation offers an opportunity to inhabit this experience of being counted by God with love. (Click image to read more)

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ESSAY: The Jubilee Year and Your Return to Yourself (Parashat Behar-Bechukotai)

/ Behar, בְּהַר, Bechukotai, בְּחֻקֹּתַי

What would it feel like to do this internally, to return to our original essence, to our soul, to reclaim ourselves? (Click image to read more)

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MEDITATION: The Jubilee Year and Your Return to Yourself (Parashat Behar-Bechukotai)

/ Meditations, Behar, בְּהַר, Bechukotai, בְּחֻקֹּתַי

In this meditation, we explore the yovel (jubilee) year’s instruction to return “each person to his holding,” understanding this internally as referring to a return to our soul, to our essence, after an inevitable distancing and shutting down through life and social and cutlural norms. Using bird imagery and river imagery which both emerge from

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ESSAY: Our Inner Shabbat Resting Place (Parashat Emor)

/ Emor, אֱמֹר

Shabbat teaches us our own infinite value as a radiant gem in the world, and we can learn to inhabit that identity. (Click image for more)

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