Rabbi Jill

“How is Your Heart?”

I recently read a lovely teaching about the “disease of being busy” by Professor Omid Safi from Duke University. He wrote that when asked “how are you?” so many of us reply with choruses of “I’m so busy…I’m crazy busy…so much going on…”   He shared that there is a Persian and Islamic custom that instead …

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A Hidden Wholeness

Parker Palmer, the great educator and philosopher writes about Thomas Merton’s statement: “..there is in all things…a hidden wholeness…”*  And he goes on to quote Mary Oliver, the poet:  “This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know…that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness.” In our tradition, the Kabbalists …

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We Journey With Angels (from Journey of the Soul: Making the Omer Count a project of Rabbi Cindy Enger and Rabbi Jill Zimmerman)

Welcome to the fortieth day of the Journey of the Soul: Making the Omer Count.  We continue with this week’s kavannah (intention), which is Becoming the Vision. We are intricately connected with what happens in the world.  Jewish tradition gives us Shabbat each week as a moment to let go of the weekday world so …

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Finding Our Way: Week 5 of Journey of the Soul (Day 29)

DEADLINE TOMORROW! Webinars/Classes begin Wed. May 14 and Thurs. May 15.  To Register: https://jewishmindful.org/upcoming-classes-and-events/ Welcome to the twenty-ninth day of the Journey of the Soul. This is the first day of the fifth week. This week’s new kavannah (intention) is Finding Our Way. In this fifth week of the journey, we find ourselves more than half-way …

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Experiencing the Desert

This is a newsletter article written by Rabbi Cindy Enger.  In our work together creating our daily Making the Omer Count emails, Cindy recalled the time she spent in Israel during her first year in rabbinic school.   We excerpted part of this beautiful article in one of our emails.  The full text is below.  (If …

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