Finishing Passover With Lessons Learned
When we can delay the need for convenience and pleasure on demand, we actually tap into ancestral muscle memory for living rich and meaningful lives with a greater capacity for wisdom.
Soul Writings
Connecting with T’fillah: Zooming in and zooming out
In a self-obsessed and individualistic world, how can we recognize, delight in, and live up to the commitments we have to each other, to the world, and to making it more sacred?
Of Time and the Birder
We register the bird in front of us in a sequence of time since the last time we saw that species; a dialogue between our presents and our pasts.
Keeping Time
I’m learning by proximity—by being slowed down in rooms where time is treated seriously, where patience is a discipline.
Why I Still Dare to Raise a Jewish Child
The number of mornings that I wake up, look at my sweet Zusha, and feel that I am betraying him by raising him as a Jew keeps growing: Have I condemned him to a life of trauma because he is Jewish?
The Holy Outcast
Especially at this time in the Jewish calendar, our new selves are trying to get through to us, the selves we want to become this year.
Time as Awakening
Elul is the time for us to reflect on how we have acted in the past and how we want to act in the future.
Feel the Spirit
Invisible, powerful, essential to life, close as our breath within, and vast as the heavens above: the Air can be … Continue Reading
Our Sleep Sanctuary: A Sacred Act of Care
Sometimes, the greatest kindness we can offer each other is the space to rest, even if it breaks the mold of what a “healthy” relationship is supposed to look like.
Joy Arrives With the Dawn
I sit on the couch facing the sliding glass doors to savor the sights and sounds of God’s creatures who share my small patch of Eden.