In this meditation, we explore the positive aspects of ga’avah, pride, looking at the phrase from the Song at the Sea ki ga’o ga’ah, meaning that God has risen up and up or has become more and more proud, from the root ga’ah, to be proud. We explore how it would feel to imitate this […]
MEDITATION: Pride Is a Virtue, In God and In Us (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »
“When your child asks you.” That fear in you is a child asking you, begging you, to be strong, to remember God’s mighty arm and inhabit it in yourself.
ESSAY: You, Your Inner Child and God: Learning to Be Strong (Parashat Bo) Read More »
In this meditation, we look at the Torah’s injunctions to “tell your child” about the exodus story as a model for how to tend to our inner child’s emotional and spiritual needs. We consider how to unblend from your inner child so that you can set up such a dialogue and how the message of
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Unclenching from the tree branch you have been clinging to your whole life and trusting enough to let go and fall into God.
ESSAY: Letting Go Into God’s Healing (Parashat Va’era) Read More »
I can’t. You (God) can. I will let You. Surrendering and opening to God’s healing energies inside us.
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Perhaps our biggest sin is not our imperfections, but how we abandon ourselves because of them.
ESSAY: I Am Who I Am (Parashat Shemot) Read More »
Maybe God’s “I am who I am” offers a response to Moshe’s — and our — feelings of inadequacy.
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Coats can be taken away from you. But this other thing we are talking about, that can never be taken away. It is the core of who you are.
ESSAY: Shedding Coats Like Yosef (Parashat Vayeshev) Read More »
Who are you without that external coat of specialness and superiority? Underneath, what Yosef found, was God and his own divine core.
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Yaakov remained alone that night, wrestling and healing and discovering his own wholeness. And it was this inner work that made all the difference.
ESSAY: Coming Into Wholeness Through Alone Time (Parashat Vayishlach) Read More »