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)
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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)
MEDITATION: Becoming a Mishkan, a Dwelling Place for Divine Presence (Parashat Terumah)
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
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POEM: Terumah: Raise it Up! (Parashat Terumah)
(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)
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WOW (Word of the Week): נשמע, Nishma, We Will Listen (Parashat Mishpatim)
“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)
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