ESSAY: Envy and Our Own Inherent Value (Parashat Yitro)
You don’t need to knock on someone else’s door. You are whole in and of yourself. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Envy and Our Own Inherent Value (Parashat Yitro)
This meditation deals with the tenth commandment, lo tachmod, “you shall not covet” or envy what your neighbor has. Bringing to mind a situation in which we might feel some envy around the accomplishment or quality of another person, we then look at the healing response that the experience at Mount Sinai offers us —
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ESSAY: What Stops You From Singing Your Soul’s Song (Parashat Beshalach)
What stops you from singing your “zimrat yah,” your divine song? What voices from your past, like the chasing Egyptians, hold you back? (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: What Stops You From Singing Your Soul’s Song (Parashat Beshalach)
In this meditation, we focus on one line from the Song at the Sea: עזי וזמרת יה ויהי לי לישועה, “The Lord is my strength and my song. The Lord has become my deliverance” (Exodus 15:2), looking at the connection between strength and song, and then finally, deliverance. We consider the strength it takes to
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ESSAY: The Revelation of that Night (Parashat Bo)
I give thanks for the glimpses within the night. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: When the Dogs Stopped Barking (Parashat Bo)
On the night of the last plague, at the exact midpoint of the night, its darkest time, amidst the anguished cries of the Egyptians, the Israelites, standing in their doorways painted with blood, experienced a revelation, what the rabbis refer to as giluy shechinah, “the revelation of divine presence.” The dogs stopped barking, the dough
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ESSAY: Floating into Redemption (Parashat Va’era)
He did not save himself. He learend to surrender to the saving that wanted to happen. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Relaxing into Redemption (Parashat Va’era)
In order to achieve our own redemption, we need to become like Moshe in his ability to surrender to God and to open to the divine redemptive process. (Click image to read more)
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ESSAY: Not Consumed By Our Fiery Emotions (Parashat Shemot)
We are not our fires. We are the burning bush that cannot be consumed. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Not Consumed By Our Fiery Emotions (Parashat Shemot)
In this meditation, we look at the image of the burning bush that was not consumed. We become aware of our internal fires of suffering and emotion and we find within them a pont of perfect stillness, like the eye of the storm. We experiment with holding both energies at once, both the raging fire
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