jewish spirituality Archives - Path With Heart Community

Take A Snow Day (or even a Snow Moment)

There’s something about really bad weather (like blizzards) that are so freeing. No matter what your plans are, your meetings and appointments, if you can’t get out of the driveway, you have to stay put. You are forced to “stay.” You can’t will yourself forward when the Big Snow says, “I don’t think so.” (I …

Life lessons from the saddest day of the Jewish year

On Tisha B’Av – the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av – we commemorate and mourn the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Temples in Jerusalem. For modern Jews, how might we make sense of this? A profound teaching may be uncovered from this little-known day: the fall of the Temple reflects …

Mary Oliver on Awe

Instructions for life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver (from her poem “Sometimes”) This photo was taken on a walk around our neighborhood in Mar Vista (Los Angeles) – You can just be walking, and come upon such beauty! Click on the photo to really see how amazing this flower is.

Your Torah, Our Torah

Every one of us has a story. A story woven from the unique blend of gifts that are the core of who you are — what you have learned, what has endured, what you hold most dear. This Shavuot, we explore what happens when those singular stories meet at the foot of a mountain — and how that ancient moment still lives in us today.