PARSHAT ACHAREI MOT 5784 THE HOLINESS OF BEING UNDERWAY
To be underway is the path of possibilities, love and the creation of new life. It takes us beyond death’s grip.… Read More
To be underway is the path of possibilities, love and the creation of new life. It takes us beyond death’s grip.… Read More
Holiness is not the ultimate, end state. It is a stage leading toward integration with all of creation. … Read More
Healing spiritual dis-ease involves both realignment with the source of creation and reconnection with community. Both require a measure of humility.… Read More
Mystery is not that which is unknowable, but that which is endlessly knowable. To live inside such endless knowability is a source of unrestricted love and eternal care.… Read More
To overcome the need to avoid the inevitable fissures in life, to let go of the desire for complete control is the beginning of freedom, fulfillment and responsibility. … Read More
An inspired life proceeds from a deep inner experience to a reshaping of one’s character to an engagement with the external world. A work of art is accomplished from the inside out.… Read More
The most enduring wisdom in Torah is found not in the explicit black letters but in the expanse of white space that surrounds them. … Read More
Both tradition and innovation, convention and imagination, continuity and discontinuity are necessary for the journey to wholeness. … Read More
At the heart of building a sacred community is weaving work, the interlacing of different dimensions: both between oneself and the world and within one’s own self. … Read More
The origin of our redemption lies not in an intervention from outside of our nature but in a stirring from within it.
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