Spiritual Practice

The presence of her absence fills the spaces where she used to be; the presence of her absence, that is what we live with now.

Rabbi Levi’s Abraham passes the test because he remains sufficiently calm and clear-thinking to avert a misinterpretation that would have ended Isaac’s life.

Interrupting ancestral patterns can be an important way to “honor your father and mother.”

My great-grandmother tells me that things have always been bad — that things have never been “normal” or calm or safe.

What is the prayer that penetrates the body and mind to awaken to the Power that makes for Connection?

God is the ground of being, the truth that we so often run away from or delude ourselves about.

Yizkor can be a way of remaining spiritually interwoven with loved (or unloved) ones in the world beyond.

As a marginalized person, I have long found the Yom Kippur liturgy to be as damaging as it is powerful.

Bernstein’s pleas are timeless: that one can pray despite living in a disappointing world on the edge of self-extinction.