PARSHAT NITZAVIM-VAYEILECH: UNFINISHED WORK
The sculptor Jacque Lipschitz was once asked: “How do you know when a work of art is finished?” Lipschitz replied, “When I stop working on it.” … Read More
The sculptor Jacque Lipschitz was once asked: “How do you know when a work of art is finished?” Lipschitz replied, “When I stop working on it.” … Read More
A healthy integration of past, present and future time perspectives promotes fulfillment of the divine promise of finding a place in the world, of fruition and peace.… Read More
By telling our stories we discover the common threads which we can weave together into a common fabric that is community.… Read More
To experience a sense of settlement in the world requires overcoming ways we perceive the past which hold us back from creating a healthy future. We need a memory that is forward looking.… Read More
Sacred restraint of our most aggressive impulses to possess and control does not diminish our personal sovereignty. It expands and ennobles it.… Read More
To see the one before us as a unique universe of hopes, imperfections and strengths is the beginning of sacred attachment, one based not on domination and possession but on a sense of wonder and mystery and gratitude.… Read More
View the study sheet here. Recording coming here. Hanging on a wall in our home is a painting by mid-twentieth century Israeli artist Joseph Zaritsky. It is titled … Read More
A journey lived through ambiguity more than clarity, possibilities more than certainties is the pathway to fulfillment.… Read More
Now, the tame becomes wild. The static, dynamic. The coolness of settled certainty combusts into flames. The fire of black lettered words and the fire of the spaces in between and around them. A conflagration of possibilities. We are making the world anew…again.… Read More
When we make our dreams come true, we discover new ones emerging on the horizon. And so, we continue in our explorations and the transformation of ourselves and our world.… Read More