Beautiful Limits, Ten Days of the Omer
Ten days of the Omer, Beautiful Limits. Tiferet ShebeGevurah. Reflections on how limits secure us, allowing us to live into our full selves.
Boundaries and Judgment, Nine Days Omer 5783
9 days of the Omer, 1 week and 2 days. The heart of Gevurah: boundaries, judgment, discipline, strength. Finding ways to hold space for this structure within Shabbat. Making space for the Shadow within.
Grace within Boundaries, 8 Days of the Omer 5783
Today is 8 days of the Omer, Grace within Boundaries. Allowing ourselves to flow into Now and accepting all that means.
Indwelling of Grace, Seven Days of Omer 5783
Seven days of the Omer, Indwelling of Grace. Though perhaps foreign sounding to most Jewish minds, Grace lives within us. When we make space for our souls, we have the opportunity to be held within Grace.
Foundation of Grace, Six Days of Omer 5783
Foundation of Grace. Six Days of Omer. Connecting with other people and building intentional community creates a foundation for Flow.
Splendor of Grace, Five Days of the Omer 5783
Splendor within Grace, Hod ShebeChesed, Five Days of the Omer. Great Art is the container that holds Grace’s Splendor. Sink into it today.
Four Days of Omer: Enduring Grace
Choosing to connect every day with Grace. Accepting responsibility for enduring through life. Day Four of the Omer, 5783. Netzach ShebeChesed.
Three Days Omer: Beauty within Grace
Three Days of the Omer, Beauty within Grace. Allowing Beauty to transform us and lift us into Grace.
Two Days of Omer Limits of Grace
Discipline within Grace, two days of the Omer in 5783 / 2023. Defining a way to make space for spirituality everyday: prayer and community.
Exodus, Passover, Divine Emanations, Revelation
Chol HaMoed Pesach Shabbat Sermon 5783. Moving from a clear-eyed understanding of the Exodus to meaningful Omer count with the emanations of the Divine towards revelation.
One Day Omer 5783 Enveloped in Grace
Become enveloped in the Grace flowing through the Universe. Begin the seven week journey towards revelation by living more deeply into today.
Why Judaism?
Reflecting on taking Passover seriously, approaching spirituality from a feminist lens, and choosing Temple Israel of Alameda.
Shabbat Parah 5783: Purity of Vision
Reflecting on the ancient practice of burning a red heifer and using its ashes for purification. How can we purify our vision for the future of our kahal kodesh, our holy community?
Remember Amalek and connect with Ner Tamid 5783
Remembering the enemy, Amalek, reminds us that evil exists: not just in other people, but within each of us. In Parashah Tetzaveh we are commanded to keep the Ner Tamid continuously lit within our inner sanctuary: Light to challenge evil.
Repro Shabbat 2023
Parashat Mishpatim sermon explaining that women’s bodily autonomy is sacrosanct. Reviewing Exodus 21:22-25 and statements by the Reform and Conservative Movements of Judaism.
The Exodus, the Shoah, and the Jewish Roundtable of Alameda Unified
We are leaving Egypt in this week’s Torah portion. We remember the Shoah, yet our children go to school with rising support for neo-Nazism.
Maintain Alameda District Funding For Arts-Integration at Maya Lin Elementary
A letter to the Alameda School Board: The Maya Lin arts-integrated model encouraged me to move my family to Alameda. The district needs to accept its obligation to support this nationally recognized education model.
Vaera: God appears
God appears to Moses and declares God's Proper Name. Understand God's names to understand our relationship to the Ground of Being. Reflect on how God appears today.
Hope and Community in the Secular New Year
My thoughts on the rise in anti-Jewish bias, Zionism and Judaism, and my hopes for the secular new year.
