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“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 …

Siri and I: We’ve Been Friends…(evidently…)

  True story: I was talking to my husband Ely the other day about the candidates for the November election. We were sitting at the dining room table, my Iphone next to me. All of a sudden Siri (the Iphone “assistant”) just started answering me! She said “I don’t understand” and then she repeated the …

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 …

Go Forth With An Open Heart – Lech Lecha*

Go – Go with a free heart, with open palms, with no expectations; Trust – That what is shown to you is exactly what you need to learn, even though at first glance, it may not seem so… Be – In the mystery of what is unfolding before your eyes; Know – That real truth …

“We Can’t Allow Ourselves to Fall Into the Pit”

July 21, 2014 Today, I was fortunate to be on a conference call with an individual who spoke to my heart and my head and helped me remember and re-commit to what I have always believed: violence can never be the solution to resolving conflict or creating real lasting change. I have been asked by …

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 …

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 …

Responding to our Soul’s Calling

(This is a sermon I gave in November of 2008 at the Women of Reform Judaism Biennial convention, held in Seattle Washington.  I’m posting it today because this explains, in part, why I felt called to become a rabbi at age 47.  This is part of my life’s journey.  In this week’s Journey of the Soul: Making the Omer …

“On What Disturbs, Then Nourishes” A guest post by Dani Shapiro

One of my very favorite authors and people – Dani Shapiro, writes about her frequent traveling, coming home and a poem (YES by David Whyte!!) that inspired wisdom within the constancy of change.  Thank you Dani for allowing us to share this.  Check out Dani’s blog – link at the bottom.  And check out her …

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