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

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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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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This week many of us will sit around a table of thanksgiving with family and friends. It is an opportunity to reflect on a world that is other than we might wish it to be and to imagine the possibilities nurtured by hope.… Read More

A compassionate curiosity about what is missing, unvoiced, or undeveloped in one’s story is one of the sacred practices encouraged by Torah.… Read More

The most important guests in our lives may not be those we invite but those, both people and experiences, that show up unexpectedly.… Read More

The adult world is one of complexity and imperfection. It is where we are called upon not to be perfect but to be responsible.… Read More

The spirituality of imperfection opens us up to viewing others, and ourselves, with a measure of divine grace. … Read More

Life consists of a series of separations. They can evoke from us despair. They can also evoke from us a fruitful longing for connection. … Read More

For a year now we have been reading the Torah. It began far away from us in distance and time, galaxies upon galaxies and eons upon eons. . A cosmological combustion that cooled into oceans and soil and rock, sea creatures and land animals and birds, and the human.… Read More