What would it feel like to have God offering you support in claiming your voice, helping you to amplify it and strengthen it so that you can speak your piece of the divine truth into the world? God offered Moshe that kind of support at Mount Sinai. In the midst of the thunder and lightning […]
ESSAY: God’s Support For Moshe’s Voice and Our Own (Parashat Yitro) Read More »
Love is “the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another person’s spiritual growth.” (Click on image to read more and listen)
MEDITATION: God’s Support for Moshe’s Voice And Our Own (Parashat Yitro) Read More »
We search for the strength to face what is difficult right now and not fall into the collapsing energies of fear and despair. Ozi vezimrat Yah. “The Lord is my strength and song (Exodus 15:2),” the Israelites sang after their salvation at the Red Sea. They knew something about facing impossible situations. My Strength
ESSAY: Your Strength and Your Song (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the phrase Ozi vezimrat Yah, “The Lord is my strength and song” (Exodus 15:2). We consider the fear that the Israelites felt at the Sea as well as our own fears and feel into how we might allow the divine energy of strength and courage and creativity to flow through
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What am I not allowing myself to feel? Who am I excluding inside me? (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Radical Inclusivity (Parashat Bo) Read More »
With our young and our elderly we will go, with our sons and our daughters we will go. (Click image to read more)
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Who is in charge inside –Pharaoh or God? (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Breathing God In (Parashat Va’era) Read More »
When Moshe came to the Israelites with the good news of God’s redemption, they could not hear him because of “shortness of breath” and “hard work” (Exodus 6:9). In this meditation, we explore our own shortness of breath in relation to the pressures of a fast paced, productivity oriented society and we consider how we
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I have been thinking about riptides, those powerful currents in the sea that take you further and further away from the shore and from safety. If you fight them and try to swim against them to get back to the shore, you just exhaust yourself and make things worse. The key apparently is to relax
ESSAY: Floating Down The River With Moshe (Parashat Shemot) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the image of Moshe floating down the river to salvation and feel into what it would be like to surrender and trust and let go of navigation and control to that extent, letting the river take us where we need to go. Source: Exodus 2:1-10 Photo by Pixabay at Pexels
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