(Originally published in 2020) The implication is that God looked at Adam and saw loneliness because God knew about loneliness. (Click image to read more)
SHORT ESSAY: On Loneliness in the Creation Story (Parashat Bereishit) Read More »
Moshe may die and “walk” away, but God continues to walk with the people. Who or what are walking out of our lives this year, and how can we experience the steadiness of God’s continuous walking with us? (Click image to read more)
WOW (Word of the Week): וילך, “He Went” (Parashat Vayelech) Read More »
Parashat Nitzavim is always read on the shabbat before Rosh Hashanah, and in it, quite fittingly, is a poignant passage that speaks of the process of teshuva, of our return to God and to the land, after a long period of distancing and exile and scattering. The passage (Deuteronomy 30:1-10) uses the root שוב,
WOW (Word of the Week): שוב, Return (Parashat Nitzavim and Rosh Hashanah) Read More »
This is the journey we make in life, not once, but many times over, from Mitzrayim, a place of narrow straits, to a land of ease and flow. (Click image to read more)
QUICK THOUGHT: A Land Flowing With Milk and Honey (Parashat Ki Tavo) Read More »
Holding that fantasy in faith before us, the fantasy of total return, the fantasy of really coming home to ourselves and to God . . . (Click image to read more)
QUICK THOUGHT: Imagining Your Own Homecoming (Parashat Ki Tavo) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the bikkurim (first fruits) ceremony as a celebration of homecoming, both physical, to the land, and in our meditation, spiritual, a continual return to the home of peace and rest inside ourselves that is our true home, a place that is not tight like Mitzrayim, but flowing like the land
MEDITATION: On Bikkurim and Homecoming (Parashat Ki Tavo) Read More »
(Originally published in 2020) It is as if we have a secret language between us and God that no one else knows . . . (Click image to read more)
SHORT ESSAY: Back and Forth Between Us and God (Parashat Ki Tavo) Read More »
We walk and we stumble; we walk and we stumble. All of us walk straight and proud some of the time, and all of us stumble and fall some of the time. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Lifting Each Other When We Fall (Parashat Ki Tetzei) Read More »
This meditation deals with the mitzvah of helping to raise up a fellow’s fallen animal. Hakem takim imo, “you shall surely raise [it] up together with him.” The meditation considers this verse in terms of our experience of emotional “falling” on life’s journey, exploring some different ways of understanding what this falling is, and then
MEDITATION: Lifting Each Other When We Fall (Parashat Ki Tetzei) Read More »
For a person — even in the midst of war — is still a tree of the field, still steady, majestic and connected. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Your True Tree Self (Parashat Shoftim) Read More »