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Tisha B’Av – First, We Grieve

Posted onAugust 5, 2022August 29, 2022

by Rabbi Nadya Gross

My last posting to this blog was in the final week of the Omer count. I left us all in Malchut/Shechina – the manifest world. There, we confronted the truth of an imperfect Creation, acknowledging the essential design flaw that occurs when this realm…

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Shavuot/Pentecost: Forever Revealing

Posted onJune 3, 2022June 8, 2022

by Hazzan-Maggid Steve Klaper

Starting on the second day of Passover, traditional practice requires Jews to begin counting seven weeks, 49 days, which conclude with the celebration of the festival of Shavuot [weeks]. Originally an agricultural holiday, the idea of …

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Living the Omer – Manifestation

Posted onJune 1, 2022June 8, 2022

by Rabbi Nadya Gross

And so we come to the close of our counting – at the end of this week, we will have completed seven cycles of seven and followed the pathways of creation, carrying the divine attributes on the Tree of Life into the manifest world.
In Yesod, we found the complete ..

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Living the Omer – Foundation

Posted onMay 24, 2022June 8, 2022

by Kohenet Ruach D’vorah Grenn

Yesod, you ground me, bring me back into balance. Every time I call on you, I sink into you as Foundation, Rootedness, Stability; I am brought back, at least for a few moments, into alignment. Although one of your attributes is Ego, you often take me out of my egoic Self and into …

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Memories of Lag Ba’Omer

Posted onMay 18, 2022June 8, 2022

by Rabbi Nadya Gross

My earliest memories of Lag Ba’Omer take me back to grade school in Israel. There was a grove of trees that we walked through to get to school. On that day, following the lead of the older kids, we all gathered fallen tree limbs as we returned home at the end of …

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Living the Omer – Splendor

Posted onMay 17, 2022June 8, 2022

by Rabbi Nadya Gross

I love the attribute of Hod. As a human being, I am in co-creative partnership with the Creator and all of Creation. Furthermore, I love to create rituals that transform energy and create sacred space. I often turn to Hod for guidance. This week the flow of creative energy ..

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Living the Omer – Perseverance

Posted onMay 10, 2022June 8, 2022

by Kohenet Ruach D’vorah Grenn

This has always been one of my favorite sefirot, the divine/human attributes on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Netzach is an energy I thrive on – that has also gotten me into trouble. Its laser focus on a particular goal has caused me to at times throw caution..

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Living the Omer – Compassion

Posted onMay 3, 2022May 8, 2022

by Rabbi Nadya Gross

Our journey began in overflowing love, the attribute that makes everything feel possible and good: Chesed – on the right hand. Yet the energetic flow on the Tree of Life teaches us that the love must be contained and given direction so that it remains healthy and does not overwhelm.

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It Could Be Any Night…

Posted onApril 29, 2022May 13, 2022

by Maggid Amitai Gross

As Imams stare into the sky, watching the clouds pass over the moon, interpreting the cycle and declaring, with pious certainty, that the Ummah [community] has entered the last ten days of the holiest month, they know that one of these nights will be Laylat al-Qadr, …

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Living the Omer – Discernment

Posted onApril 27, 2022June 8, 2022

by Kohenet Ruach D’vorah Grenn, Ph.D

In the second week of our journey, we engage with the sefirah (attribute) of Gevurah (discernment, strength). I used to see this sefirah on the Tree of Life and never liked it. It meant judgment, and I already had judgmental people in my life; why would I invite an attribute…

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Living the Omer – Loving-kindness

Posted onApril 20, 2022May 8, 2022

by Rabbi Nadya Gross

On Seder night(s), we celebrate freedom. One of the questions we asked at our Seder was: “Freedom from…” or “Freedom to…”? We explored how freedoms come with responsibilities, and how the exercise of “my freedom” can become the enslavement of another if …

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Determined to Live in the Light

Posted onApril 15, 2022May 8, 2022

by Pastor Larry Block

The unholy residue of our human experience. We are wounded and we wound. We are complicit in the suffering of humanity, in the injustice and darkness of this physical world. In Lent through Holy Week, we acknowledge our participation, intended or unintended,…

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The Promise of New Life

Posted onApril 14, 2022May 8, 2022

by Reverends Janet and Phil Kettering

Through the gift of deep ecumenism birthed from our relationship with Rabbis Victor & Nadya and the Pardes Levavot Jewish Renewal Community, our lives of faith and understanding continue to be deepened and transformed. Resonating with Rabbi Nadya’s recognition of ….

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From Calumny to Transformation

Posted onApril 13, 2022May 8, 2022

by Rabbi Victor Gross

Today is spy Wednesday. For one side of the equation a spy is a hero. On the other side a traitor. It references the story found in Matthew 26:14-16 where Judas “went to the chief priests, and said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they game him …

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Like a Kernel of Wheat

Posted onApril 12, 2022May 8, 2022

by Rabbi Nadya Gross

One of the images that Reb Zalman used in teaching Deep Ecumenism was a group of circles overlapping in the center, each circle representing one of the world’s religions. We mostly see our differences – the outer parts of the circles – and focus on …

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Cleansing the Temple

Posted onApril 11, 2022May 8, 2022

by Maggid Amitai Gross

This year, Holy Week and the lead-up to Pesach coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. This convergence is a unique opportunity for a “Spiritual Spring Cleaning.” Each day of this week, we offer you a brief teaching on this auspicious occasion.

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