These fleeting opportunities for connecting, in a time so challenging. We’ve lost so much this year. Only these brief, beautiful moments of exchange remain. Read More
On this Yom Kippur, this Day of Atonement let us turn towards ourselves and each other with the kind of forgiveness that heals the world. The kind that doesn’t judge or shame or divide us, but rather the kind that uncovers and gathers the broken fragments of God and Light and puts them back together. Read More
What is the meaning of compassion? For it seems to me, if one aspect of our lives, one attribute, that has almost disappeared in the last 18 months it is compassion. Read More
I was struck by the intensity with which the woman davened, head beat slightly forward, machzor open in her hands. She wore a simple skirt, a short-sleeved blue-grey shirt and sandals. She did not wear a hat. Read More
While the contest was an opportunity for budding artists to make their name, it was also an opportunity for the judges to make theirs. Read More
And then there is the annual question of Yom Kippur: to fast, or not to fast? Fasting is contraindicated for ED recovery – but what does that mean for one’s neshama? Read More
If we can find a way to lean into this chaos, weave it into our perceptions of reality rather than dismiss and repress it for the sake of simplicity and order – perhaps we may feel less hollow and disconnected… Read More
I think when I look back at this time I will still grapple with the juxtapose of being in paradise while others suffer. Read More
I don’t mind
pushing the night bugs
from the surface
of the water Read More
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