SHORT ESSAY: Don’t Leave Yourself Out of the Party — the Shelamim Sacrifice (Parashat Tzav)
This is the traingle of wholeness and peace — self, other and God. Which one of these facings is most difficult for us? (Click image to read more)
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ESSAY: How Is God Calling To You? (Parashat Vayikra)
How might the collapse itself, the doubt itself, be a call? (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: How Is God Calling To You? (Parashat Vayikra)
In this meditation, we explore God’s call to Moshe at the beginning of this parsha and ask the question: How is God calling to me at this moment? By delving into the word Vayikra with its small alef, and paying attention to its connection to the end of last week’s parsha, too, we deepen this
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ESSAY: What Unites Our Fragmented Parts (Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei)
You are more important than the work. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: What Unites Our Fragmented Parts (Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei)
This meditation explores the relationship between the mishkan (Tabernacle), work and Shabbat. We start by noticing the multiplicity of vessels and labors and creations in the mishkan, noting that multiplicity inside ourselves as well, and feeling into the sense of overwhelm and fragmentation we sometimes experiece as a result. And then we consider what makes
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POEM: A Blessing (Parashat Pekudei)
Open your hands to receive the blessing — these hands that shape and create, that mold and hold tight . . . (Click image to read more)
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ESSAY: Leaning in to Uncertainty (Parashat Ki Tisa)
“Make us an idol because we don’t know what happened to Moshe.” What if they could have stayed with the unease of not knowing, allowed the feeling but not acted on it? What if we could do that?
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MEDITATION: Leaning In To Uncertainty (Parashat Ki Tisa)
What if the Israelites could have stayed with the feeling of uncertainty and unease, allowed the feeling but not acted on it? What if we could do that, learn to stay with the unease, with the questions, with the not knowing? (Click image to read more)
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WOW (Word of the Week): מאליה, “on its Own” (Parashat Tetzaveh)
We need to absorb some of this “on its own” energy, the sense that everything will unfold on its own, just as it should, beautifully, if we will only allow it to, if we can only do what Moshe did . . . (Click image to read more)
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SHORT ESSAY: Making Room For God To Dwell Inside You (Parashat Terumah)
The thing is, in order to let God in, you have to make space inside. I don’t know about you, but my inner world is pretty crowded, stuffed tight with worries and judgments . . . (Click image to read more)
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