This meditation considers the entire universe as a world of praise to God, and explores our ability to enter and join that praise. The meditation is based on a study of Ashrei we did together in my Psalms group, and plays with the words מהולל, mehulal, “praised,” and כל, kol, “everthing,” which both appear often […]
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In this meditation, we explore the intense feeling contained in the Shabbat song, Tzama Nafshi, “My soul thirsts for God.” (Click image to read more)
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(Originally published in October 2020, in honor of my father’s seventh yahrtzeit). In this essay, I explore the meaning of a song I learned from my father as a child — koh amar Hashem. (Click image to read more)
SHORT ESSAY: A Song For My Father about חן — Grace (Parashat Noah) Read More »
In this meditation from my Psalms group, we work with the phrase: כי עמך הסליחה, “For with You is forgiveness” (Ps 130:4), finding the parts inside of us that hold shame and regret and remorse for harm we have caused others and ourselves, and providing them with a sense of the soft bed of forgiveness
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The bright pink and white azaleas are stunning right now. Oh, Lord, I see Your glory all around me. And yet I feel unease, Deep, relentless unease,A sense of impending doom andUncertaintycertain only that the future will not be like the past.Worries, fears, panic even, take me over, Especially at night when rest should come. Oh, Lord, in
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