MEDITATION: Carrying Others In Our Heart The Way The High Priest Does (Parashat Tetzaveh)
Whom do you carry on your shoulders and on your heart? (Click image to read more and listen)
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ESSAY: From Swords to Angel Wings: Learning to Open Our Hearts (Parashat Terumah)
“I will meet you there,” God says. But are we open to it? What about those angels of destruction standing in the way? (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: From Swords to Angel Wings: Learning to Open Our Hearts (Parashat Terumah)
In this meditation, we look closely at the keruvim, the child-like angel figures that stood on top of the ark in the Tabernacle. It is from between these keruvim that God is said to speak and meet us. Finding this place in our own heart space, we explore what blocks us from this open access
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ESSAY: Embodying The Alef Of “Anokhi” (Parashat Yitro)
When God revealed Godself, God chose to bring into this broken world this single letter to heal us and strengthen us. What is its power? (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Embodying The Alef Of “Anokhi” (Parashat Yitro)
There is a Hasidic tradition that the only thing God spoke at Mount Sinai was the first letter of the first commandment — the alef of the word anokhi, “I am.” In this meditation, we explore the power of this silent letter to heal and strengthen and empower us. א Sources:Exodus 20:2The Rebbe of Rumanov
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ESSAY: Miriam And Her (Marginalized) Song of Empowerment (Parashat Beshalach)
This passage holds both the pain of marginalization as well as the seeds of a future complete redemption and liberation. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Miriam And Her (Marginalized) Song of Empowerment (Parashat Beshalach)
In this meditation, we take a close look at the way the Torah describes the women’s song and dance led by Miriam, feeling into aspects of both marginalization and ultimate empowerment in the Torah and in ourselves. We explore in our own bodies Miriam’s radical and deeply feminine way of leading and being and worshiping
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ESSAY: On The (Uncomfortable) Growth Process In Egypt And In Ourselves (Parashat Bo)
“The stimulus for the lobster to grow is to feel uncomfortable. ” (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: On The (Uncomfortable) Growth Process In Egypt and In Ourselves (Parashat Bo)
The plagues escalate until finally, Pharaoh lets the people go. In this meditation, we take the whole scene inside, finding our own inner “children of Israel” part, the locked away hurt inner child who longs to be set free, as well as our own Pharaoh part who acts as a harsh inner guard to shut
ESSAY: When We Are Closed — Learning to Breathe (Parashat Va’era)
The Israelites could not hear Moshe because of “kotzer ruah,” shortness of breath. How do we learn to breathe deeply and let God in? (Click image to read more)
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