In this meditation, we focus on the Aron, the ark, as the meeting place for Divine Presence in the Mishkan, and we find that meeting place inside ourselves in our hearts, and specifically in the hole (like the open space above the Aron between the angels where God spoke) of our vulnerability. We find in […]
MEDITATION: Becoming a Mishkan, a Dwelling Place for Divine Presence (Parashat Terumah) Read More »
(Originally published in 2021) O Lord, to You, I raise it all up, the joys and the laughter and the lilting songs and most of all the sorrows. (Click image to read more)
POEM: Terumah: Raise it Up! (Parashat Terumah) Read More »
“The Merciful One wants the heart.” . . We need to act, but we also need to hear, to pause for a moment and be receptive, to open up to listening and taking in. (Click image to read more)
WOW (Word of the Week): נשמע, Nishma, We Will Listen (Parashat Mishpatim) Read More »
One theme running through the parsha’s laws is taking care of the vulnerable in society — the stranger, the widow, the poor, the slave, . . . In this meditation, we look inward to our own vulnerable parts, we get to know them and the shame and judgment surrounding them, we listen to them and
MEDITATION: The Vulnerable Inside you (Parashat Mishpatim) Read More »
(Origninally published in 2021) These are our internal strangers, living in our system as second class citizens. When we welcome them in, when we welcome the holes, they shift from being outsiders in this world to insiders in another world . . . (Click image to read more)
SHORT ESSAY: The Stranger Inside Us (Parashat Mishpatim) Read More »
Maybe in the spectacular revelation of God’s “Anokhi” self, we also find the capacity to return home to the fullness of our own selves. (Click image to read more)
WOW (Word of the Week): אנכי, “I” (Parashat Yitro) Read More »
(Originally published in 2021)
1. Acccept wisdom from wherever it appears, even “outsiders.”
2. You can’t do it alone.
3. Don’t be too busy to witness the divine.
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SHORT ESSAY: 10 Steps to Revelation (Parashat Yitro) Read More »
In this meditation, we journey together through the experience of revelation at Mount Sinai, and in seeing with clarity the power and strength of God’s “Anokhi” self, we find our own divinely implanted Self reflected and empowered. This reading is based on an idea of the Sefat Emet that, at Mount Sinai, “each one recognized
MEDITATION: Mount Sinai and the Divine Empowerment of Each of Us (Parashat Yitro) Read More »
“Lo nacham” — God does not regret taking Israel out of Egypt. Rest in the knowledge of that unshakable love. (Click image to read more)
WOW (Word of the Week): נחם — God Leads and Never Leaves (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »
(Originally published in January 2021) God says: “What are you yelling at Me for? Tell them to move forward!” The only way around fear is through it, moving forward depsite the fear, in the fear, through the fear itself . . . (Click image to read more)
SHORT ESSAY: From Fear to Song (Parashat Beshalach) Read More »