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READ MOREADAR AND PURIM IN A TIME OF HOSTAGES 20 MARCH 2024/ 10 ADAR II 5784 Seriously? Two months of Adar this leap-year, of all years?? When we are told to marbim b’simcha, increase our joy, and delight and bask in revelry and merry-making? (“Why?” one might wonder. Because tomorrow we might die!) What a cruel […]
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READ MOREMandala in Sanskrit means “circle”. Mandalas represent wholeness and unity and are used in many traditions as tools for meditative focus and practice. There is evidence of the presence of mandala art in most ancient cultures. Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, understood mandalas as the graphic representation of the inner self, and the […]
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READ MOREThe Omer period in the Jewish calendar are the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot. During this time, we have the opportunity to rectify deficiencies by focusing on balancing various attributes within ourselves. According to Kabbalah, each of the weeks we count represent one of the lower seven sefirot/Divine emanations. Each day of the week […]
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I called to You to reveal the mysteries never hidden from You, instead, I uncovered the deep within meand did not depart empty- handedfor in the songs I sang to You, I sawa vision of a ladder.I offer thanks for Your wondersthough I do not under- stand thembut I will not forget what You whispered […]
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Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye Sept. 19, 2019 Small Kindnesses By Danusha Laméris I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. […]
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READ MOREThe rabbi of Berdichev saw a man hurrying along the street, looking neither right nor left. “Why are rushing so much?” he asked the man. “I’m rushing after my livelihood,” the man answered. “And how do you know,” said the rabbi, “that your livelihood is running on before you so that you have to rush […]
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READ MOREI am determined to cultivate only thoughts that increase trust and love, to use my hands to perform only deeds that build community, to speak only words of harmony and aid. — Thich Nhat Hanh “Angola_general” by SIM USA is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
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READ MOREYou need not do anything Remain sitting at your table and listen You need not even listen, just wait You need not even wait Just become quiet and still and solitary and the world will offer itself to you to be unmasked It has no choice It will roll in ecstasy at your feet It […]
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READ MOREOpen me to silence, Sound Creator; Clear my ears from the background of my life, Quiet the highway of my emotions As they growl with gridlocked traffic. When I calm my soul I can hear You. Open me to silence, Sweet Singer; Switch off the electronic noise makers, The automatic switches I flip unawares, That […]