A Candle in the Night: Chanukah as a Mythic Journey from Darkness to Light
When we interrupt our patterns, the light of awareness shines through.
When we interrupt our patterns, the light of awareness shines through.
When we meet a child’s question with reverence instead of resolution, we move from instructing to accompanying.
We don’t have to whitewash harm or pretend it didn’t happen to make room for healing.
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.
We are entering an era in which people will seek sanctuaries of meaning.
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.
At one of the most famous theophanies in the Torah, when Moses stood at the burning bush, God told him to remove his shoes, because he was standing on holy ground.
Sometimes we need to work softly, like water slowly dripping, day in and day out