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 […]
MEDITATION: Turning Towards Our Own Central Light (Parashat Beha’alotecha) Read More »
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)
ESSAY: The Priestly Blessing (Parashat Naso) Read More »
We have reached the center, and the center is light. (Click image to read more and to listen)
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By counting us out of love, God loves us into counting, into mattering, into knowing our own value (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Counted In Love — Loved Into Counting (Parashat Bamidbar) Read More »
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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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)
ESSAY: The Jubilee Year and Your Return to Yourself (Parashat Behar-Bechukotai) Read More »
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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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)
ESSAY: Our Inner Shabbat Resting Place (Parashat Emor) Read More »
Shabbat is the first of the holidays listed in this week’s parsha. In this meditation, we explore what it means to disidentify with our work and to find inside ourselves our inner Shabbat Resting Place. We notice the fluttering of our anxious parts, like little birds, and help them come to rest, like Noah’s dove,
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All the other judgments and lenses — the reason you are “less than” — they are like chaff that gets blown away in the wind, leaving behind the core kernel of who you are, the solidness of your inherent sacredness. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: From “Less Than” To Overflowing With Love (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim) Read More »