Parsha

ESSAY: Rest Is Not Secondary (Parashat Behar-Bekhukotai)

We say we love rest. But do we? Why does everything else seem to take priority over rest then? This week, I’d like to take a hard look at our relationship to rest.

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MEDITATION: Rest Is Not Secondary (Parashat Behar-Bekhukotai)

Letting all the thoughts and plans and worries swirl around as you rest in your shabbat place, the place of stillness deep inside you that is always at peace.

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ESSAY: Proclaiming Holiness (Parashat Emor)

One angel says to the other: See that flower? Holy! And the other angel calls back: See that human walking the street? Holy! “Holy! Holy! Holy!” What if we did that, too?

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MEDITATION: Proclaiming Holiness (Parashat Emor)

If we are looking for fear, fear will be everywhere. But if we decide that what we are looking for is God, then God is everywhere.

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ESSAY: From Vengeance To Divine Love (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim)

Become that love. You were born to be that.

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MEDITATION: Divine Love As The Antidote to Revenge (Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim and Yom Ha’atzmaut)

It is precisely into this space of impossibility that God enters.

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ESSAY: How Solitude Heals (Parashat Tazria- Metzora)

The Torah understands that human affliction often comes from a core disconnection with ourselves and God, and that a retreat into solitude offers an opporutnity to reconnect.

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MEDITATION: How Solitude Heals (Parashat Tazria- Metzora)

All is right with you when you are with yourself like this.

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ESSAY: Receiving God’s Call of Love (Parashat Vayikra)

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MEDITATION: Receiving God’s Call of Love (Parashat Vayikra)

What would it feel like to take seriously that God wishes to connect to us, that God desires us, and to open to receiving that love?

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