PARSHAT BESHALACH 5783 IMMERSION AND EMERGENCE: CROSSING THE WATERS
Freedom is not only liberation from external restraints. It also involves overcoming internalized feelings of negativity and fear of lack.… Read More
PARSHAT BO 5783 COMINGS AND GOINGS: THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF TORAH
To be a source of liberation we need to first confront our own fears and layers of self-protection. … Read More
PARSHAT VAERA 5783 SCRAPING AWAY TO REVEAL THE DIVINE
Scraping away our layers of defenses against our anxieties and fears opens up an intimacy with one another and with the Source of all life. … Read More
PARSHAT SHEMOT 5783 TURNING ASIDE
It is hard to imagine a world in which one did not constantly encounter images created by Vincent Van Gogh. Today one does not need to make an effort to go to a museum to see them.… Read More
PARSHAT VAYECHI 5783 BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES
If we read deeply enough, if we live deeply enough, what looks like an ending becomes an opening…and we can be the author.… Read More
PARSHAT VAYIGASH 5783 ESTRANGEMENT AND UNITY
Breaking continuity can sometimes be the best way to maintain it.… Read More
PARSHAT MIKETZ 5783 SHATTERING AND HOPE
Moments of fracture contain within them the possibility of life reconstructed and renewed.… Read More
PARSHAT VAYESHEV 5783 THE USES OF A CLOAK
We can enrobe words with different ones (metaphors). We can enrobe ourselves in different personas. These open up different possibilities, new ways of seeing what we thought we knew.… Read More
PARSHAT VAYISHLACH 5783 REFUSING TO BE COMFORTED
We weep for the brokenness in our world. Our refusal to be comforted is our insistence that we can create a better, more just future.
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PARSHAT VAYETZEI 5783 TO FIND HOPE IN THE DOORWAY
Torah guides us on a journey that is both internally and externally focused. The world is ever in danger. And spiritually composed beings can bring wholeness to it.
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