Parsha

MEDITATION: You, Your Inner Child and God: Learning to Be Strong (Parashat Bo)

In this meditation, we look at the Torah’s injunctions to “tell your child” about the exodus story as a model for how to tend to our inner child’s emotional and spiritual needs. We consider how to unblend from your inner child so that you can set up such a dialogue and how the message of […]

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ESSAY: Letting Go Into God’s Healing (Parashat Va’era)

Unclenching from the tree branch you have been clinging to your whole life and trusting enough to let go and fall into God.

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MEDITATION: Letting Go Into God’s Healing (Parashat Va’era)

I can’t. You (God) can. I will let You. Surrendering and opening to God’s healing energies inside us.

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ESSAY: I Am Who I Am (Parashat Shemot)

Perhaps our biggest sin is not our imperfections, but how we abandon ourselves because of them.

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MEDITATION: I am Who I Am (Parashat Shemot)

Maybe God’s “I am who I am” offers a response to Moshe’s — and our — feelings of inadequacy.

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ESSAY: Shedding Coats Like Yosef (Parashat Vayeshev)

Coats can be taken away from you. But this other thing we are talking about, that can never be taken away. It is the core of who you are.

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MEDITATION: Shedding Coats Like Yosef (Parashat Vayeshev)

Who are you without that external coat of specialness and superiority? Underneath, what Yosef found, was God and his own divine core.

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ESSAY: Coming Into Wholeness Through Alone Time (Parashat Vayishlach)

Yaakov remained alone that night, wrestling and healing and discovering his own wholeness. And it was this inner work that made all the difference.

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MEDITATION: Coming Into Wholeness Through Alone Time (Parashat Vayishlach)

In this meditation, we look at Yaakov’s night levad, alone, the night before he meets Esav and consider what he learned from that night of wrestling with himself and God, how he came into some greater awareness of his own separateness and completeness through a “face to face” connection with God. We consider our own

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ESSAY: Blessed For Being You (Parashat Toldot)

Is the only way to receive a blessing to pretend to be someone else? (Click image to read more)

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