I name my year at Rosh Hashanah every year, but it’s hard to not feel the pull of the collective energy at the secular new year when everyone is making their resolutions. My word for 5770 is “harmony.” It started as “balance”, but I’m looking for more than just balance. I’m looking for my life [...]
We live in cycles. This seems like an obvious statement, but most of us have been indoctrinated from birth into linear time. First you do this, then this, then this. It’s why birthdays are so important in our society. They mark your next step in a linear process. Even if we are aware of the [...]
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One of my favorite bloggers, the Bliss Chick, wrote a challenging post recently asking what the point of all this “enlightement” and spiritual growth is. She’s pointing out something that many of us have noticed. Too many people are focused on “growth” for themselves alone. The point of all this spiritual work that many of [...]
I’ve been reading The Rituals & Practices of a Jewish Life: A Handbook for Personal Spiritual Renewal and found that it spurred more than a few interesting ideas. I’ll write more on the book later, but one of the ideas that the section on the Kriat Shema, or bedtime shema, was a new tarot spread. [...]
Pinhas (Num 25:10-30:1) is both one of my favorite and least favorite readings all in one. It starts with the death of Zimri and Cozbi, the Simeonite prince and Midianite princess that Phineas violently kills to avert G!d’s rage from the Israelites’ “whoring” after Baal Peor. I’m used the David Alter translation of the Five [...]
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