
Breaking False Dichotomies, Compassion and Empathy, Longform, Mundane Into Sacred, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized |
March 10, 2022
Don’t Try To Be the Hero of Your Story
With two elementary-school-aged kids, we hear a fair amount of sibling fighting, with only some of it unprovoked. When one of them is getting a little too wild, and, say, someone’s limbs smack into someone else’s body, their first reaction is to say, “I didn’t mean to do it!” And while my wife and I do draw a distinction between purposeful versus accidental actions, we try to focus more on the consequences and how to make it right afterward. That’s what’s so striking about this week’s Torah portion, Vayikra. It outlines the......
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Bring The Sacred Down To Earth, Compassion and Empathy, Longform, Longform, Mundane Into Sacred |
February 04, 2022
Freedom to Give
“A contract is a transaction. A covenant is a relationship. A contract is about interests. A covenant is about identity. That is why contracts benefit, but covenants transform.“ In these terse words of enduring wisdom, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks draws our attention to the covenants we might long have overlooked and the contracts that we mistook for something more (see Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times for additional wisdom). Such was certainly the case for the Israelites, as becomes evident in this week’s Torah portion, T’rumah (Exodus 25:1 – 27:19). It......
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Bring The Sacred Down To Earth, Compassion and Empathy, Hold Dualities Together, Longform, Longform, Mundane Into Sacred, There's More To You Than You Realize, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized, Wisdom Daily News |
November 24, 2021
What does it mean to have enough?
Do you really have nothing?...
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A non-religious person takes a trip to Camino De Santiago and experiences unexpected moments of spirituality....
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Mundane Into Sacred |
November 13, 2018
Gardening In Israel Helps Me Dream Of A World Without Borders
Do not growl at the border someone else drew in the sand. Place your hands in the dirt and plant something new....
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Mundane Into Sacred |
March 28, 2018
10 Minutes Late: How A Broken Bone Helped Me Find Wholeness In My Life
How injuring my foot helped me learn to slow down and appreciate the wholeness of my life....
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Mundane Into Sacred |
February 28, 2017
Irish Folktales Show How Easily The Mundane And The Mystical Can Blur
In Irish Folktales, as in life, we must use our wits to decipher between reality and fantasy....
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A message to the entertainment industry and media to stop playing to our worst fears....
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It is August. We are in-between. In the liminal space between what was and what will be....
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What Donald Trump's idea of vetting immigrants through "ideological orientation" can teach us about how we should look at people like... Donald Trump....
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