QUICK THOUGHT: To the Land that I will Show you (Parashat Lech Lecha)
We are each an Avram slowly becoming an Avraham. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: To The Land That I will Show you (Parashat Lech Lecha)
Avram is called to step out onto a path toward a land that God will show him. We each recieve this call each day, a call to trust and be open to what God wants to show us, to let go of the (childhood and ancestral) burdens of control and fear and self doubt, and
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QUICK THOUGHT: Saving Yourself (Parashat Noah)
God’s instructions to Noah for building an ark are reminiscent of the instructions for the consctruction of the Tabernacle. (Click image to read more)
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SHORT ESSAY: What We Wash Away in the Flood (Parashat Noah)
What are the false beliefs and habits of mind and burdens that we would do well to wash away in a flood? (Click image to read more)
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SHORT ESSAY: Garments of Light (Parashat Bereishit)
Adam and Chava, with their majestic garments of light, were like the kohen gadol, aglow with the new knoweldge, after sin and forgiveness, of who they really are at their core. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Garments of Light (Parashat Bereishit)
God made “garments of skin,” or some say “garments of light” for Adam and Eve after their sin, and then God dressed them. (Click image to read more)
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SHORT ESSAY: On Loneliness in the Creation Story (Parashat Bereishit)
(Originally published in 2020) The implication is that God looked at Adam and saw loneliness because God knew about loneliness. (Click image to read more)
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WOW (Word of the Week): וילך, “He Went” (Parashat Vayelech)
Moshe may die and “walk” away, but God continues to walk with the people. Who or what are walking out of our lives this year, and how can we experience the steadiness of God’s continuous walking with us? (Click image to read more)
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WOW (Word of the Week): שוב, Return (Parashat Nitzavim and Rosh Hashanah)
Parashat Nitzavim is always read on the shabbat before Rosh Hashanah, and in it, quite fittingly, is a poignant passage that speaks of the process of teshuva, of our return to God and to the land, after a long period of distancing and exile and scattering. The passage (Deuteronomy 30:1-10) uses the root שוב,
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QUICK THOUGHT: A Land Flowing With Milk and Honey (Parashat Ki Tavo)
This is the journey we make in life, not once, but many times over, from Mitzrayim, a place of narrow straits, to a land of ease and flow. (Click image to read more)
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