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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MEDITATION: Blessed For Being You (Parashat toldot)
Yaakov gets a blessing by pretending to be his brother Esav. In this meditation, we consider the pain of this messaging, the pain of feeling that in some way who you are naturally is not enough, and that you need to act like someone else to deserve blessing and honor and love. We work with
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ESSAY: Come Rest in Sarah’s Tent (Parashat Chayei Sarah)
Come for a moment out of the cold into the quiet warmth and love and comfort of Sarah’s tent. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Come Rest in Sarah’s Tent (Parashat Chayei Sarah)
In this meditation, we enter into Sarah’s tent and experience the quiet divine presence and nourishment we need. Like Yitzhak, we bring our grief and our loneliness and are loved and comforted (Genesis 24:67). Come in out of the cold and rest in Sarah’s tent with us. Photo by Monica Silvestre at Pexels
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ESSAY: Centering Sarah and Ourselves (Parashat Vayera)
A radical reading of the Sarah and Avraham story that asks us to re-center Sarah — the one in the tent — and ourselves. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Centering Sarah And Ourselves (Parashat Vayera)
In this meditation, we consider Sarah’s de-centering and neglect by Avraham and ultimate centering by God in the phrase vaHashem pakad et Sarah, “And God took notice of Sarah” (Genesis 21:1). We look at Avraham’s tendency to face outward and not inward and at our own tendency to do the same towards ourselves, how we
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ESSAY: To The Land That I Will Show You (Parashat Lech Lecha)
Even though it’s scary and uncomfortable to be on this unclear journey, it feels better than you imagine. Because you don’t do it alone. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: To The Land That I Will Show you (Parashat Lech-Lecha)
This meditation explores the inner landscape that God is inviting us into in the call to Avram and to each of us to move towards “the land that I will show you,” to step out of our past conditioning and into an unknown land — together with God — to allow ourselves to open to
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ESSAY: Building A Sanctuary For Your Internal Floods (Parashat Noah)
What do you do when you are feeling overwhelmed or flooded? Make for yourself a safe haven, God tells Noah. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Building a Sanctuary For Your Internal Floods (Parashat Noah)
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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