Through the roller coaster of our internal and external lives, we can, like Yaakov, stay steady and rooted in the ground, in our makom, in that deep place inside us where we are always with God, always at peace. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Resting Deeply In This Place (Parashat Vayetze) Read More »
In this meditation, we explore the image of the angels climbing up and down in Yaakov’s dream. First we relate that image to our breath, feeling our in and out, up and down breath, as a chain of angels inside creating a constant energetic current of connection between us and God, noticing that the ladder
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Yitzhak didn’t meditate or stroll in that field for any utilitarian purpose. There is nothing you need to get done in this space. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Entering Yitzhak’s Meditative Space (Parashat Chayei Sarah) Read More »
In a world where the promised blessings seem not yet to have fully arrived, be the blessing you want to see. Be the love. Be the kindness. Be the blessing. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Grounding in Faith in an Unredeemed World (Parashat Vayera) Read More »
God’s blessings, when and if they come to Avraham, do not come easily or quickly, but with much disruption and uncertainty. The land he is promised has famine and war, and the children he is promised are slow in coming and then threatened to be taken away. It often does look to us like God’s
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Maybe you can hear the command to make a “tzohar” in the ark as a divine invitation to tend to that light in your own ark. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Tending to Your Light Through The Storm (Parashat Noah) Read More »
How has your light, your sacred fire of hope and passion and agency, been dimmed by the storms and winds of life? How can you tend to it now and preserve it, hold it close and share it? (Click image to read more and to listen)
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And God saw that it was good. Not perfect, not complete, but still good, in and of itself, in this moment. (Click image to read more and to listen)
We don’t have to be done with our work to celebrate. (Click image to read more)
We have only to serve God and the world from our special place of joy. That is how we know what is ours to do. (Click on image to read more)
ESSAY: Serving God With What Brings You Joy (Parashat Ki Tavo) Read More »