Join Rabbi Marc Margolius for a podcast on the period of S’firat HaOmer - counting the Omer – a period marking our spiritual journey from Egypt to Sinai – moving from breaking the bonds of slavery on Pessach to developing our capacity to open ourselves to the divine on Shavuot. Marc’s offering includes a teaching […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Join Rabbi Sheila Weinberg in contemplating Sh’ma Koleynu – Hear our voices. This is the reverse of Sh’ma Yisrael, when our plea to hear is directed to ourselves; here, Sh’ma is directed towards the source of mercy and compassion - Adonai Eloheinu. It is a communal project to ask God to hear our […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Join Rabbi Sheila Weinberg in this series of short podcasts in preparation for the High Holy Days.
“Achat Sha’alti me’eit Adonai, otah avakeish; shivti b’veit Adonai kol y’mei chayai, lachazot b’noam Adonai ulvakeir b’heichalo. One thing I ask of Adonai, for this do I yearn: to dwell in the house of Adonai all the […]
Join Rabbi Jonathan Slater for a discussion of the practice of engaging in and maintaining a spiritual practice; whether prayer, meditation or yoga. Throughout the latter part of the summer and into the fall we read through the book of Deuteronomy/Devarim, where Moses is speaking to the children of Israel, preparing them for […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )As we approach Shavuot, explore the physical experience of revelation with Rabbi Myriam Klotz. What is the embodied, sensory, experience of a moment of revelation of the sacred in the world?
With the season, we return to the Biblical moment of divine revelation through the gift of the Torah – a kinetic and […]
As we move into Exodus/Shemot (where we meet the mythic/historical Pharaoh – the all-powerful enslaver), join us for a meditation reflecting on the internal nature of Pharaoh. The story of liberation is about seeing through and beyond Pharaoh’s authority and control. In meditation we look inside our own hearts; there we may encounter the inner-Pharaoh […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Join Rabbi Myriam Klotz for this beautiful meditation on the menorah flames and engaging our capacity for sight. Chanukah invites us to see into the goodness that the creator has given us. As we see these flames without working with them - just seeing them - we train our hearts and inner vision to become more sensitive […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What do we mean by awe and fear? How do we experience it? How do we understand our size and position in the world? In relation to the galaxy? The universe? To God? Join Rabbi Nancy Flam for a meditation on proportion, place, power, and gratitude.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )During Elul, we begin the focused self study that can enable a closer alignment with the goodness inherent inside. Join Rabbi Myriam Klotz as she explores a practice from Rebbe Nachman of actively seeking out the good points within ourselves and drawing these points into our awareness so we can accept and embrace the intrinsic […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Counting the Omer - Week 7 - Malchut; Shmirat HaLashon: Guarding One’s Speach. Join Rabbi Sheila Weinberg for a meditation on letters of the the aleph bet, along with the breath, as a practice to help us settle the mind and see more clearly so that we can choose our words with greater care.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Meditation, Yoga, Text Study and Contemplative Practice with IJS
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