The Axis of Healing
A new meditation on the source of healing — the light that shines from your own heart — posted as gift on this Shabbat for a…
Read articleKi Teitzei 5775: Amalek Within
Amalek is the arch-villain of Torah. This week’s portion, Ki Teitzei, refers to an incident in Exodus just after the people crossed the Red Sea. The…
Read articleShofetim: To the Streets
One of Torah’s famous instructions appears in this week’s parsha: “Justice, justice shalt thou pursue…” (Deut. 16:20) The context is establishing a legal system, but our ethos…
Read articleTo the Streets, Revised
This is a call to leaders to leave the safety and cloister of their institutions, to go into the streets to learn from the anguish of…
Read articleNoach: Always this Wonder
This is a prayer that our children remember pure joy of laughter and play. It’s a prayer that we remember our own innocence and love. After…
Read articleFire and Water
Love and despair can be like fire. Truth can be like water, keeping the fires that fuel our emotions – the passions that make us human…
Read articleSimple Prayer for Healing, Revised
This prayer is basic, direct, to the point. Heal and comfort those in need. And heal the world of suffering and strife. It’s a prayer for…
Read articleNoach: The Flood
What flood — what flood of emotion, of grief, of tragedy, of fire or water — tore through your life? Was there a lifeboat? A meditation inspired…
Read articleThe Cut that Heals
In the Ben Yehuda Street pedestrian mall, on a sunny, breezy, Jerusalem afternoon, I saw a young woman wearing a deep blue shoulderless top reading an…
Read articlePlanting Seeds
This prayer recognizes that everything we do has the potential to heal or to harm. So we ask for G-d’s help to plant seeds of holiness…
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