In this meditation, we consider our own experience of being flooded and overwhelmed emotionally, and how building ourselves a safe place — like Noah’s ark — might help us learn to regulate and return to a state of calm. We take the time to imagine such a sanctuary inside ourselves and to feel God’s peaceful […]
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“And the two of them walked on together,” Avraham and Yitzhak, each of us and our young ones, and God”s shining face upon us. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Learning To Walk With Your Inner Child (Rosh Hashanah) Read More »
In this meditation, I offer a reading of the Akedah (the Binding of Isaac) from the lens of the inner child, focusing on two pivotal moments in the text — the first, when Avraham and Yitzhak “walk together” and the second, when Avraham binds up his son. We explore these in terms of our own
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“You shall surely raise it up together with him.” Together with him. — The Torah asks us not to rescue, but to partner in healing. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Rising Up Together (Parashat Ki Tetzei) Read More »
In this meditation, we look at the mitzvah of helping someone lift up their fallen donkey, considering carefully the words hakem takim imo which mean “you shall surely lift up with him” (Deutonormy 22:5). Rashi explains that “with him” means only if he participates, and this is our jumping off point for considering how it
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Staying present and true to God in you. That is all. What happens next is not your business. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Be Yourself No Matter What They Say (Parashat Shoftim) Read More »
In this meditation we explore the verse Tamim tihiyeh im Hashem Elokeha (Deuteronomy 18:13), “Be wholehearted with Hashem your God” as an instruction to give yourself over completely to the simple but not easy task of being true to yourself and to God in you at all moments. We consider the stress of constant worry
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God rejoices when we do this work, when we reclaim our space and our voice, our strength and our confidence. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: God Says Yes To you (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »
In this meditation, we look at the story of the daughters of Tzelafchad and consider the courage that it took to stand up and say their piece. We feel into our own conditioning into silence and the possibility of stepping forward and of God’s great rejoicing when we do, tasting the resounding “yes” that God
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How do we cultivate a sense of boundaries and wholeness in and of ourselves, and learn to move into relationship from that place? (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Staying In Your Own Tent (Parashat Balak) Read More »