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 »
(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 »