Holidays, at the best of times, bring an array of emotions, expectations and experiences, and how much more so with the challenges and uncertainties of this past year.
Break through how you learned to see.
Break through the confines of rational thought.
Tonight, at sunset we enter the month of Kislev.
This month calls us to welcome the darkness,
To welcome the darkness,
As a friend, a teacher, a guide.
This week, let’s turn the prism of Torah and sit in the tent of Sarah.
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It took some time for me to discover what to offer during this autumn season and I am very excited about what I finally came to.
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And the goal of this journey?
The reason to leap,
To struggle, to let go, to risk?
The reason to rise and fall
And rise again and again?
Is to be a blessing.
May the light of this month encourage our awareness, curiosity and kindness so that a deep sense of caring guides our words and actions.
We continue to begin, arriving at the opening of the Torah and the creation of all life.
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From the expanse of Yom Kippur we arrive in Sukkot, the celebration of earth’s generosity.
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We call on the heavens and earth,
We call on the wisdom of the ancestors,
We call on the prayers of the generations to come,
Help us and guide us.
May we experience life in its complexity and continue to love.
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Shana Tova. Much blessing and love as we begin 5782.
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May the fires of devotion inspire loving and courageous offerings of our hearts and hands.
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The Torah calls,
You stand here today with everyone,
With all those who came before you,
And all those who will come after.
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The turning doesn’t make the sadness disappear,
It doesn’t negate the tragedies, or nullify the pain,
But it does bring us into connection
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I will wait for you to remember
That you were born into this fragile existence
To let your heart shatter and shine.
We continue into the month of Elul with the call to do hesbon hanefesh, to take an accounting of our soul, to explore who we are and ask ourselves:
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Return to me and I will return to you. (Zecaria 1:3)
Return, Ani l’dodi, v’dodi li, (Song of Songs 6:3)
What does the Infinite ask of you?
To be in awe of the Unfolding Mystery,
To walk in the paths of truths.
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May our lives be for healing.
May our lives be for peace.