We haven’t been able to do Teshuvah in the past, because feeling bad about ourselves is not sufficient to change behavior in any permanent or lasting way.
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Ultimately, if the change we want and need to see is a continual unfolding of Divine consciousness in our human family, then we need to use our voices in ways that affirm our shared humanity and Divine image
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How do we grow? Improve? Transform into more realized versions of our visions of who we could be and what kind of impact we can have in the world? Is growth about becoming a picture of someone else, or is it about more fully embracing who we already are? There is a midrash – a
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“I’m spiritual” can simply mean that “I am aware that there is more depth to reality than I can perceive and I’m interested in a greater understanding of that depth. I intuit that this greater understanding brings me closer to truth in a world of lies, and that this greater understanding can help me navigate my world in a way that brings greater clarity, love, and peace.”
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When we decide to open to the sacred dimension of our relationships, our essential pathway is communication
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If we want to delve deeply into any aspect of our experience, we need to embrace it fully.
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Our Torah and Jewish tradition dreams of a world in which human dignity is real and the presence of God is manifest. How do we hold on to that dream, nourish it, not lose hope and not conclude that the way the world is, is the way it has to be?
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Where our Passover seders are about exploring redemption in the past and present, on the 8th day, on the final day of Passover, we are invited to tune into what it might mean in the future and to orient our lives today to guide ourselves and others to that vision.
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Taking the time to disengage from the news, to celebrate Shabbat, to notice the little miracles that are with us every day is essential to remind us that God’s face is not fully hidden – that is safe to keep our hearts open to the darkness and the suffering because we are part of the Divine Reality that underlies the darkness.
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The more I participate in interfaith dialogue and become aware of the various religious approaches to understanding sacred texts, the more I am convinced of the uniqueness of the value and approach of midrash. Midrash means “interpretation” and comes from the Hebrew root “leedrosh” which means “to seek.” This idea means that while Judaism’s core
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