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)
SHORT ESSAY: Anxiety and the Two Rocks (Parashat Ki Tisa) Read More »
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.
MEDITATION: The Cleft in the Rock (Parashat Ki Tisa) Read More »
(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)
SHORT ESSAY: True Refuge for our Vulnerable Heart (Parashat Ki Tisa) Read More »
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
MEDITATION: Our Inner Ner Tamid, Eternal Light (Parashat Tetzaveh) Read More »
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)
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 »