SHORT ESSAY: Avraham and His Three Angels: How Welcoming Transforms the Pain (Parashat Vayera)
Surely the first visitor who arrived and was welcomed in was the pain itself. (Click image to read more)
Parsha
MEDITATION: Welcoming Our Inner Guests (Parashat Vayera)
In this meditation, we bring Avraham’s spirit of hospitality inside and explore what it means to really open to and welcome any emotional visitors that stand at our doorway. (Click image to listen)
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ESSAY: The Journey Toward Our Own Vastness (Parashat Lekh Lekha)
What we are being asked to do is move from the starting place of our small, situated human selves toward a self that is a part of the vast groundless blessedness of the divine. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Adding the “Heh” of Spaciousness (Parashat Lekh Lekha)
We are so much larger than we think! We contain the whole universe inside us. In this meditation, we work on opening up some space around our contracted parts by breathing in the extra letter “Heh” from Avraham’s new name along with the vastness of the earth and the stars in his divinely granted vision.
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SHORT ESSAY: A Shelter in the Flood (Parashat Noah)
In the face of a physical flood, God instructs Noah to build an ark. Perhaps this is what we need to do for our emotional flooding as well, to create a space of safety inside us where we can ride out the storm. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: A Shelter in the Flood (Parashat Noah)
We are all at times flooded emotionally. — by overwhelm, anxiety, fear, distress. In this meditation, we work on constructing an inner ark to weather the storms. (Click image to listen)
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SHORT ESSAY: A Song For My Father about חן — Grace (Parashat Noah)
(Originally published in October 2020, in honor of my father’s seventh yahrtzeit). In this essay, I explore the meaning of a song I learned from my father as a child — koh amar Hashem. (Click image to read more)
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SHORT ESSAY: First Comes Clarity (Parashat Bereishit)
Why is God’s first creation light? We talk a lot about compassion, but often in addition to or maybe even before compassion, we need clarity. (Click image to read more)
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POEM: Let me remember You (Parashat Re’eh)
O Lord when the wind does blow, let me remember You (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: The City of Refuge Inside Us (Parashat Matot-Masei)
Relax and cultivate the city of refuge inside you, as a place to go where we are held in all our imperfections. Click here to listen.
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