SHORT ESSAY: No Need For Extra (Parashat Shemini)
(Originally published in 2019) God’s Glory fills the Tabernacle. What happens next is extra. (Click image to read more)
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WOW (Word of the Week): ויקרא, Vayikra — The Call to Come Close (Parashat Vayikra)
And to us, too, God calls lovingly, a constant call to come close. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: All Parts Have a Place (Parashat Pekudei)
We see and honor each of our internal parts as having a place insde us, just as Moshe saw and anointed each of the vessels of the Mishkan (Tabernacle). (Click image to read more and listen)
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WOW (Word of the Week): עזים, “Goats” — Staying Connected to the Source (Parashat Vayakhel)
The women quite literally spun the wool while it was still on the goats’ backs. (Click image to read more)
POEM: Kiyor Mirrors (Parashat Vayakhel)
(Originally published in 2021)
Come with me on this journey of self- and other – love. You can be as exquisite as I (well, almost anyhow). (Click image to read more)
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SHORT ESSAY: Anxiety and the Two Rocks (Parashat Ki Tisa)
This essay considers the Golden Calf incident and the divine encounter in the cleft of the rock as two alternative approaches to anxiety, one a false refuge and the other a true one. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: The Cleft in the Rock (Parashat Ki Tisa)
In this meditation, we explore the feeling of being held in the cleft of the Rock of Life as a response to the shakiness which the people experienced upon awaiting Moshe’s return, and which we all regularly experience.
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SHORT ESSAY: True Refuge for our Vulnerable Heart (Parashat Ki Tisa)
(Originally published in 2021) Our vulnerability is our Holy of Holies. It is in this tender human heart that God resides. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Our Inner Ner Tamid, Eternal Light (Parashat Tetzaveh)
In this meditation, we work together to access the Ner Tamid (eternal light) inside us, to feel its glow spread through us, to know its steadfastness, and to spread its light to the other parts of us that are needing light. Photo by Pixabay at Pexels
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WOW (Word of the Week): כרובים, Keruvim: Through the Portal of Our Childhood Selves (Parashat Terumah)
We are given a chance to retrieve what we lost in the Garden of Eden by entering through the keruvim, through our childhood selves with all their woundedness and innocence. (Click image to read more)