WALKING THE SPIRITUAL PATH WEBINARS BEGIN TUESDAY 4/30. CLICK here for more info! DAY SEVEN* Welcome to the seventh day of the journey. We continue with this week’s kavannah (intention), which is Waking Up. (Journey of the Soul: Making the Omer Count is a project of Rabbi Jill Zimmerman and Rabbi Cindy Enger. To subscribe and receive each Omer day Continue Reading
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 take a breath and just BE. I love Rabbi Alan Lew's teaching that on Shabbat, God takes a breath. Continue Reading
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 I needed new glasses. Or maybe my eyesight was blurred because of Continue Reading
ready or not
I’m wondering if you gasped, as I did, seeing Nazi flags marched through the streets of Charlottesville. I’m sure you looked on in horror as men with torches surrounded a church holding an interfaith service and shouted “Jews will not replace us” and “blood and soil”, slogans taken from Nazi Germany. Not as well publicized was that on that particular Continue Reading
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 constant roar of the freeway and the city Continue Reading
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