בְּרֵאשִׁית – B’Rae/ShyTh (In a beginning)
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Clever Human vs Cunning Snake “And the snake was the most cunning-deceptive (ערום - \aRuM) of all the wild beings of the field that...
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Aug 15, 202310 min read
נֹחַ - No’aHh
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...
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Aug 15, 20238 min read
לֶךְ־לְךָ – LeKh L’Kha (Go for your sake)
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...
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Aug 15, 202314 min read
וַיֵּרָא – WaYaeRaaH (And He was appearing)
Overcoming Brooding Insecurity The Hebrew word for men /aNaShim (אנשים), from the noun /eNoSh (אנוש), evolved from the root /aNaH (אנה)...
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Aug 15, 202313 min read
חַיֵּי שָׂרָה – HhaYaey SLaRaH (Life of Sarah)
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...
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Aug 15, 202313 min read
תּוֹלְדֹת – ToL’DhoTh (Generations)
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...
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Aug 15, 202315 min read
וַיֵּצֵא – WayYaeTs!ae (And he was going out)
Encounters with haMaQoM As a means of engaging with experience and processing what is encountered, Yaaqov represents a person’s grabbing...
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Aug 15, 202317 min read
וַיִּשְׁלַח – WayYiShLaHh (And he was sending)
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,...
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Aug 15, 202319 min read
וַיֵּשֶׁב – WayYaeSheBh (And he was settling in)
Yoseph – Trounced upon by His Brothers (this time) A quick perusal of English Torah translations demonstrate a difficulty in translating,...
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Aug 15, 202319 min read
מִקֵּץ – MiQaeTs! (At the end of)
Retract from fear, Awaken to mindfulness Reading one of my blogs can be rather perplexing. The first paragraph may seem clear enough, but...
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Aug 15, 202324 min read
וַיִּגַּשׁ – WayYiGaSh (And he was approaching)
Closely Approaching - probing experience in Goshen There are times when we are too afraid to engage all that life is throwing at us....
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Aug 15, 202318 min read
וַיְחִי – WaY’HhiY (And he was living)
When Yaaqov is lively, Yisrael goes to Extremes Allegorically, Mitsraim represents a person’s attempts to focus (narrow in) upon the many...
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Aug 15, 202327 min read
שְׁמוֹת – Sh’MoTh (Names)
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...
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Aug 15, 202324 min read
וָאֵרָא – Waa?aeRaa? (And I was appearing)
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...
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Aug 15, 202326 min read
בֹּא – Bo? (Go in)
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...
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Aug 15, 202326 min read
בְּשַׁלַּח – B’ShaLaHh (In sending forth)
Strengthening Mitsraim by Removing its Wheels When Pharaoh (our chaotically attending to too many things in experience)1finally does send...
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Aug 15, 202328 min read
יִתְרוֹ - YiThRo (Jethro)
YiThRo Fundamentally, the purpose of Torah is to bring us closer to God. The allegorical understanding of Torah does this by showing us...
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Aug 15, 202324 min read
מִּשְׁפָּטִים – MiShPaT!ym (Declarations-decisions)
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...
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Aug 15, 20236 min read
תְּרוּמָה – T’RuMaH (Donations)
Terumah In Parashat Terumah, HaShem instructs Moshe to have the children of Yisrael take up for God fifteen items for the purpose of...
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Aug 15, 202320 min read
תְּצַוֶּה – T’Ts!aWeH (You shall command)
Performing w/Precise Mindful Intention Of the twelve occurrences of the expression: לכהן לי “for the purpose of performing the priestly...
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