Empowerment in Memory: Zachor vs Timche
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How do we understand the need to both remember, and also erase our trauma? To Zachor, and also Timche, the memory of Amalek?
Read MoreSacred Space & Spiritual Technology: #Pekudei
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Creating a space for the Divine to rest - from history to today.
Read More#Parsha #KiTisa: Our Cheat Code for The Divine
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This week's Torah portion, "Ki Tisa", is a roller-coaster journey of human desire and yearning, Divine connection, separation and reconnection, and finally, the divulging of the "formula" for which the Israelite nation - and hopefully, human beings, can connect with the Divine in their lives.
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Overcoming Procrastination as a Spiritual Practice
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How can we focus on the Real Reason we avoid Getting Things Done to actually Do The Things?
Read MoreThe Long, Short Way to Letting Go of Grudges & Jealousy
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Can we let go of grudges, of jealousy and of vengeance, in a way that is simple even if it takes time?
Read MoreDoes Spirituality Go Beyond The Mind?
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Is a spiritual practice simply about the mind, or can we allow Divine to flow through our bodies, too?
Read MoreThe Spring Cleaning of The Soul
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How do we shake off the winter darkness and spring clean ourselves using the winter as nourishment and fuel?
Read MoreThe Dance of Abun-Dance
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Change your reality, change the world. It goes in a circle, and we dance with our bodies.
Read MoreThe Power to Go Beyond Time Is Ours
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We were given time as a gift. To use, to mobilize, to transform. To create something bigger and better, outside the box that we were given. Are you ready to jump out of the box?
Read MoreTo a New Year of the Gene-Sis
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As we embark on the second year of The Gene-Sis, I open myself to readers and co-collaborators to ask, what do you want to journey through this upcoming year?
Read MoreOut of the Comfort Zone to Find the Land We Were Promised: An Election Week Reflection on Avram and Sarai's Journey
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Go, get out of your homeland - the earth that is beneath your feet, everything you've ever thought to be true, the mother earth that nurtured you that you always thought to be yours. Get out of it. Shake it up. Move out of your attachment to your own space and place, and go!
Read MoreWhy Didn't Noah Save Everybody aka How to Not Drag People Kicking and Screaming Even When You Really Want To
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Sometimes, it's not our job to drag others kicking and screaming into a new reality. That's their work. We have to do our own.
Read MoreReasons Elul Doesn't Suck & the High Holidays are High
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Except Elul isn’t really about saying sorry, and Teshuvah isn’t really about repentance. The High Holidays aren’t about spending a day bored in the Synagogue, and they’re certainly not a manmade trigger point to get you to hate your heritage even more when you find that the Temple is so damn hard.
Read MoreIf you practice being love, you don't have to work so hard to act like it
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We want love, we want transcendence, we want ecstasy, and we often pay the price for it - without realizing that it's not as steep as we think. We readily part with our sanity, our own essence of self, for the sake of uniting with this great godforce of love, but there's a big piece of the picture we forget in the process.
Read MoreStrength Training That's Better Than Pilates
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Rejection. It's hard because it's worth it, but does it ever get any easier?
Read MoreFlowering into Fruition and Blossoming into Our True Selves: Shavuot
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When the Jewish people received revelation on Mount Sinai, it was the culmination of a process of transformation that would enable them to bring heavenly fire into the depths of the earth.
Read MoreThe Magic of 33: Fusing Heaven and Earth on Lag Ba'Omer
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On a spiritual path, how do we integrate our revelations with physical activity - or elevate our mundane day-to-day with the teachings of Divinity?
Read MoreOutlasting The Pack with Stamina: Netzach & Hod = Yesod
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The two seemingly opposed Sefirot of Netzach - triumph and Hod - humility; fuse together to create connection - which only takes place with deep, imbued, everlasting strength in vulnerability.
Read MoreStay Separate, Stay Holy
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Is the key to being holy being separate from the rest - or separating ourselves so we can reconnect with the Source that powers us all equally?
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