Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life
Our suffering, the unresolved element of our lives, is also from God. It is the instrument by which we are carried back to God, not something to be defended against, but rather to be embraced. And this embrace begins here on Tisha B’Av, seven weeks before Rosh Hashanah, so that by the Ten Days of Teshuvah, we are ready for transformation. We can en
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the fundamental, dynamic relationship between the Infinite and the finite – in Buddhist symbols, between Emptiness and form, or in Christian language, between the Spirit and the world – is one in which both exist in and out of each other; utterly different as they are and remain, they co-inhere, they “inter-are.” (This is what we explored in Chapte
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The relationship at the heart of ritual is the relationship between life and death, mediated by elemental forces. The kinds of rituals that fall out of that might be a monthly day of silence, perhaps periodic fasting, perhaps singing around the fire. All such things need to be done as symbolic testimony to the joy and sorrow of being human, no... See more
Substack • Imagining a World Beyond Consumerism
way.”* The Rabbis created a string of mourning rituals. They ordained that a glass be broken at every wedding in empathetic grief to the catastrophe, but weddings were not to be stopped. Life, family, children must go on. They instructed that a portion of every newly built home be left unfinished. Let every feast or party be less than complete. Let
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