It’s not true that no one got sacrificed at the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac. Someone did get sacrificed –Sarah. Sarah’s death at the beginning of our parsha immediately follows the story of the Akedah, and Rashi famously explains the connection as causal: When an angel came to inform Sarah that her son had been […]
ESSAY: Listen to Her Voice (Parashat Chayei Sarah) Read More »
Sarah in some way dies from inattention, from not being properly honored and listened to. In this meditation, we work to find the Sarah inside us, the deep knowing resting place that connects us to the divine; we find this place and rest in it; we listen to it and honor it, so that Sarah
MEDITATION: Listen To the Voice of Your Own Sarah (Parashat Chayei Sarah) Read More »
Like Hagar and Avraham, we are blind until God opens our eyes to see that everything we need is right here. (Click image to read more)
MEDITATION: Opening Our Eyes (Parashat Vayera) Read More »
Our first hearing of God is invariably harsh. (Click image to read more)
POEM: Unbinding (Parashat Vayera) Read More »
We are each an Avram slowly becoming an Avraham. (Click image to read more)
QUICK THOUGHT: To the Land that I will Show you (Parashat Lech Lecha) Read More »
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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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)
QUICK THOUGHT: Saving Yourself (Parashat Noah) Read More »
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)
SHORT ESSAY: What We Wash Away in the Flood (Parashat Noah) Read More »
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)
SHORT ESSAY: Garments of Light (Parashat Bereishit) Read More »
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)
MEDITATION: Garments of Light (Parashat Bereishit) Read More »