Clever Human vs Cunning Snake “And the snake was the most cunning-deceptive (ערום - \aRuM) of all the wild beings of the field that...

The Curse of Canaan From an allegorical point of view, No'aHh is an archetype, a representation of our desire to take a rest from the...

Journeying with G-d In Parshat Lekh L’kha, haShem instructs Avram to go to the land that He would show him. He leaves Charan with his...

Overcoming Brooding Insecurity The Hebrew word for men /aNaShim (אנשים), from the noun /eNoSh (אנוש), evolved from the root /aNaH (אנה)...

Recovering focus so as to engage with experience In this week’s parsha, Sarah dies and Avraham negotiates for a burial plot for her, and...

Competing ways to bring things to light Imagine you are at a wide-open assemblage of all types of people. Strewn across the scene, there...

Encounters with haMaQoM As a means of engaging with experience and processing what is encountered, Yaaqov represents a person’s grabbing...

Yaaqov becomes Yisrael In order for him to fulfill his archetypal role as a person’s grabbing at what comes around so as to investigate,...

Yoseph – Trounced upon by His Brothers (this time) A quick perusal of English Torah translations demonstrate a difficulty in translating,...

Retract from fear, Awaken to mindfulness Reading one of my blogs can be rather perplexing. The first paragraph may seem clear enough, but...

Closely Approaching - probing experience in Goshen There are times when we are too afraid to engage all that life is throwing at us....

When Yaaqov is lively, Yisrael goes to Extremes Allegorically, Mitsraim represents a person’s attempts to focus (narrow in) upon the many...

A New Way to be Mindful As was true with the book of B’raeshit, the allegory of Sh’mot is about mentally processing what is encountered...

The Gestalt that is YHWH The most frequently used names that refer to G-d in the Torah are the tetragrammaton (YHWH), Elohim, El and El...

Leaving Denial and Chaos Behind As an archetype, Pharaoh is not a bad actor, he is simply an aspect of each one of us, our being in...

Strengthening Mitsraim by Removing its Wheels When Pharaoh (our chaotically attending to too many things in experience)1finally does send...

YiThRo Fundamentally, the purpose of Torah is to bring us closer to God. The allegorical understanding of Torah does this by showing us...

What Did a Witch Ever Do to Me? The purpose of life is to live it. The allegory of Torah reiterates this over and again. In parashat...

Terumah In Parashat Terumah, HaShem instructs Moshe to have the children of Yisrael take up for God fifteen items for the purpose of...

Performing w/Precise Mindful Intention Of the twelve occurrences of the expression: לכהן לי “for the purpose of performing the priestly...