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Hanukkah Night #6: What Helps You Stop & Rest?

In order to act in the world with consciousness and compassion, you must regularly stop and rest, and renew and recharge. Otherwise, the light in our beings can be snuffed out. Our question for this 6th night of Hanukkah is: what helps you rest and renew? We are not the first people, nor the last, …

Simple Breath Meditation

This is a simple breath meditation. It’s 10 minutes long. It is very helpful in stressful times to just do the basics – remember to breathe, sit quietly, walk, listen to a beautiful piece of music. Several times a day as I feel the anxiety arising (we are in California #StayAtHome) I stop what I’m …

Doing is Overrated: Steep Yourself In Silence

Doing is over-rated. Sometimes the most urgent thing to do is to do nothing and steep yourself in silence. This is especially true when you realize that you are truly not in control of anything or anybody except your own self. When the chaos of the world gets too much, it is ok to pull …

What is Being Birthed From This Darkness?

There’s so much darkness and chaos right now. The environment is cloaked with it. I can see it in my newsfeed. I feel it on the roadways. In moments like this, I have to reach deep, to what I know to be true. Here it is: I know that light comes out of the darkness …

You Were Created For Just This Moment

Please – for just one moment – Breathe in: You are a precious sacred being unlike any other on this earth. Exhale: love & compassion for every other creature on this earth. You were created for just this moment – to be uniquely you in this world so desperately in need of love & compassion that …

You Will Rise Again

Think about a time you were really down, a time when you were so filled with despair that you had no idea how you would rise again – Are you still in that place? What helped you get up? What did you learn about yourself by how you rose up from that darkness? It is …

You All Got A’s

In yesterday’s reflection, we talked about the courage to “hang out” in the unknown. Today, we share a story about the feelings that can emerge when we inhabit a place of not knowing. Rabbi Jill Zimmerman

Shabbat is The Day We Let Go of the Illusion…

Shabbat is the day we let go of the illusion that we are in control. We accept the world as it is given, rather than trying to mold it to our wishes. We are free to impose our will by DO-ing six days of the week. On the seventh day, Shabbat, we are supposed to …

who what where why god?

what is god? Where is God? who is god? is God looking for me? God is too big and too small to name – words can only attempt, approximate, give a feel for, the experience. One reason poetry and music are wonderful in god-discussions is because they speak the language of metaphor. Metaphor frees us …

the silence that speaks

Upon awakening the first morning in our new place, the very first thing I noticed was the deep silence. Instinctively I took the deepest breath I had taken in months. Until we moved here to Laguna Woods, I didn’t even realize the noise level in west Los Angeles. I had obviously gotten accustomed to the …