Featured Blog Posts from Rabbi Jill

The Power of Not Knowing

What if “not knowing” is more important than “knowing”? For many of us, our identity is wrapped up in “what we know.”  What if real wisdom is being open to what you “do NOT know”? We spend so much time in our early years acquiring knowledge so that we can be “experts” in our chosen …

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7 Spiritual Tips to Maintain Your Sanity When The News Is Challenging

Just Because The News Is Out Of Control, Doesn’t Mean You Have To Be These days, we are on an emotional rollercoaster and no matter what happens with the current painful political situation in the United States, this “thrill ride” is not ending anytime soon. Things have really heated up with our country’s multiple crises. Therefore, …

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Lovingkindness Practice for Self & Others

Love is on my mind today. Love of others and love of ourselves. Two issues arise again and again when I teach about lovingkindness and mindfulness: the lack of self-compassion and the lingering hurt in relationships. Luckily, there is a lovingkindness mindfulness practice you can learn that addresses both. Self-Compassion In terms of self-compassion, many of …

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Seeking Awe Is A Spiritual Practice

Awe is a spiritual practice. Every day, intend to experience a sense of wonder in what you will encounter. It could be a baby’s laughter in the grocery line ahead of you. It might be noticing a tulip bulb as it begins to appear in the soil after a winter sleep. Perhaps it is observing that …

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Messengers of the Most High: A 9/11 miracle

What Happened First It is bedtime on this second day of Rosh Hashanah – 9/11/2019, but I can’t go to sleep before putting this story to paper. What happened today will forever be a reminder of grace, miracles and the unexplained mystery that weaves throughout our lives, that sometimes I’m lucky enough to catch a …

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Prayer For Those Not Ready To Forgive

We are in the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur called the 10 days of Teshuvah/Repentance. It’s the most intense time of the year where we are encouraged to search our souls for where we have gone astray and to ask people for forgiveness. The process of doing teshuvah (repentance, return to our …

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what’s born from the rubble

Today is Tisha B’Av (the 9th day of the month of Av.)  It’s the day the ancient temples in Jerusalem were destroyed. Our sages met challenge of the “center not holding” with creativity and resilience. If it weren’t for those rabbis, who created new ways of praying, connecting with the Divine, and gathering together, we …

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Three Mindfulness Lessons From The Wilderness

It’s usually high summer when we enter the wilderness in the Jewish calendar – by that I mean the book of B’midbar (also known as the Book of Numbers) in the Torah.

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