ESSAY: God’s “Anokhi” and The Invitation To Claim Our Own “I” (Shavu’ot)
God is saying to us — Come, you be an I, too.
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MEDITATION: God’s “Anokhi” And The Invitation To Claim Our Own “I” (Shavu’ot)
Shouting out from the rooftop — I am me. I am here. I matter. I take up space.
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ESSAY: Leaving Home For the Desert (Parashat Bamidbar)
We are making ourselves “hefker,” renunciating anything that can demand our allegiance other than our own true heart and alignment with God.
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MEDITATION: What Owns You And How To Let Go (Parashat Bamidbar)
Make like a desert and become hefker, ownerless. A midrash on the start of our parsha suggests that in order to recieve the Torah, we need to do just that, become as hefker — as free from being owned — as the desert in which the Torah was given (Bamidbar Rabbah 1:7). In this meditation,
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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.