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10 Day Mindfulness Challenge – Day 1

Today is Day One of our 10-Day Jewish Mindfulness Challenge. Welcome! Here’s how it will work: When you sign up for the challenge,  you will receive an email from me each morning for ten days, as a reminder to meditate or practice mindfulness. Each day I will recommend a kavannah or guidance for the day and …

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Hold Both Truth & Joy

This is the sermon I delivered on Rosh Hashanah at the Jewish Collaborative of Orange County in 2019. People asked to read it – so here it is: Rabbi Alan Lew, of blessed memory, writes that the High Holy Days season promises nothing less than total personal transformation – IF  we do the work, and …

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Never Again is Now

Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated on this day, January 27, in 1945. Today, the world remembers that 17 million souls, including one-third of the global population of Jews, were murdered in the genocide of the Nazi regime. How is it possible that such atrocities were committed? First, the Nazis began by portraying Jews and other …

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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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Morning Phrases to Guide Your Day

A major benefit of teaching Morning Spiritual Practices this month in Hineni has been to revisit my own rituals! It has been said that we teach what we need to learn, right? Many of my adult students are also having a grounding experience establishing some of these beautiful rituals because they allow you to bookmark your day …

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You Need An Anchor

I have a prediction. If you think the last two years have been wild, hold on to your hat. Things are about to get much more rocky. Can you feel it? Even if you wanted to shelter yourself from the upcoming hearings, investigations and reckoning with truth and justice, I predict there will be shake-ups …

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The Year of New Vision (updated for 20/20)

(Note: I wrote this in January of 2018. Since we have now entered 2020 – the year of “perfect vision” – I thought it was good to re-visit. My friend and amazing poet Devon Spier and I co-wrote the poem/meditation at the end.) The Back Story At first, I thought my clouded vision meant that …

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