In difficult times, our energy tends to get scattered and our focus, exclusively outward. But in such times, there is an even greater need for us to be well resourced internally so that we can hold the difficulty and act from this higher place, from the deep well inside us . Parashat Breishit offers us […]
ESSAY: Inner Resourcing for Difficult Times (Parashat Bereishit) Read More »
Together we create inside us a collective and personal space that can hold what is difficult in this moment. (Click image to read more)
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You don’t need to go traipsing around the world, and you certainly don’t need someone else to do it for you. “Karov hadavar me’od.” You have everything you need right here. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: It’s So Close, Right Here, Inside You (Parashat Nitzvaim-Vayelekh) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the possibility that what we are seeking is very, very close – “karov hadavar me’od” — right here, inside us. (Click image to read more and listen)
MEDITATION: It’s So Close, Right Here, Inside You (Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelekh) Read More »
How can you not just do teshuva, but be a teshuva, be a response to God’s call, inhabit your whole being as a response to God’s desire for you? (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Back and Forth — Our Reciprocal Relationship with God (Parashat Ki Tavo) Read More »
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)
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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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