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

We have the capacity to heal through love the apparent separations in our lives that we call “ends” and “beginnings.” And then we know it as all.… Read More

Torah is a message proclaiming confidence in the capacity of every human being to take responsibility for their life and that of their community.… Read More

Torah reminds us that the true site of promise lies within us and that its fulfillment requires a new way of seeing. … Read More