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Rabbi Yael writes kavanot as well as authors meditations and suggestions for practice based on the cycles of Jewish time.

 
Iyar Week 5: Foundations of Interdependence
Iyar Week 5: Foundations of Interdependence

The choices we make, the ways we treat each other, the ways we interact with the natural world, have consequences that extend far beyond our own lifetime.

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Daily IntentionsAway InMay 30, 2019Iyar
 Iyar Week 4: Lag B'Omer
Iyar Week 4: Lag B'Omer

         May we pause in gratitude today, noticing the presence of the Mystery within all.

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Daily IntentionsAway InMay 23, 2019Iyar
Video: Month of Iyar
Video: Month of Iyar

With Rabbi Yael Levy of A Way In Jewish Mindfulness Organization, we welcome the month of Iyar. Iyar is the month of second chances.

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Daily Intentions, VideoAway InMay 9, 2019Iyar
Iyar Week 2: The Week of Tiferet and Second Chances
Iyar Week 2: The Week of Tiferet and Second Chances

You Shall Be Holy:

Live in reverent relationship with the earth and all beings.

Treat everyone with dignity, fairness and care.

See the good.

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Daily IntentionsAway InMay 9, 2019Iyar
Iyar Week 1: Gifts of Gevurah
Iyar Week 1: Gifts of Gevurah

Gevurah urges us to consider the power of restraint and to wonder about limits we can engage with that will calm our minds and nourish our souls.

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Daily IntentionsAway InMay 2, 2019Nisan
Nisan Week 4: Chesed and the Passover Journey
Nisan Week 4: Chesed and the Passover Journey

This Pesach Shabbat may we rest in the beauty of the world blossoming.

May the green buds and the flowers shining yellow, pink and red give us hope.

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Daily IntentionsAway InApril 26, 2019Nisan
Nisan Week 3: Passover—Festival of Liberation
Nisan Week 3: Passover—Festival of Liberation

May we release all that has kept us bound. May we know our connection with all life. And as we listen to the cries for freedom that sound throughout the world, may we hear them as our own.

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Daily IntentionsAway InApril 19, 2019Nisan
Nisan Week 2: Looking Toward Passover
Nisan Week 2: Looking Toward Passover

Each Season has its call,

Each Festival has its light

That shines from the depths

Of the mystery.

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Daily IntentionsAway InApril 11, 2019Nisan
Video: Month of Nisan
Video: Month of Nisan

As the earth continues to guide us into spring

The month of Nisan arrives and calls:

Grow, Blossom, Become.

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Daily Intentions, VideoAway InApril 4, 2019Nisan
Jewish Mindfulness Pesach Haggadah Supplements 5779
Jewish Mindfulness Pesach Haggadah Supplements 5779

During Passover we are urged to feel as if we too are being brought out of bondage into an expanse of freedom and possibility. We are called to soften our hearts so we can hear and respond to the cries of each other.

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Weekly Torah, Weekly FocusAway InApril 4, 2019Pesach 5779
Sing to the Infinite a New Song. Two Months of Adar Conclusion
Sing to the Infinite a New Song. Two Months of Adar Conclusion

May all that has been explored, discovered and revealed through these months of Adar be of benefit and blessing for all.

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Weekly Focus, Weekly TorahAway InApril 2, 2019Adar II
Adar II, Week 4 — The Fires are Lit on the Altars
Adar II, Week 4 — The Fires are Lit on the Altars

Be aware of what you take into your body, through the foods you eat, the news you consume, the people and situations with which you engage.

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Weekly Focus, Weekly TorahAway InMarch 28, 2019Adar II
Time to Align. Adar II, Week 4
Time to Align. Adar II, Week 4

Adar can demand a lot of one’s body, mind and spirit. These months can shake us to the core by challenging our habits and beliefs, by questioning the roles and limits that define us and by demanding that we face our vulnerabilities and fears.

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Weekly Focus, Weekly TorahAway InMarch 26, 2019Adar II
Adar II, Week 3 — Who Knows?
Adar II, Week 3 — Who Knows?

Who knows? Perhaps it was for this very reason we were brought into the world.

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Weekly Focus, Weekly TorahAway InMarch 21, 2019Adar II
Returning to the Present Moment. Adar II, Week 3
Returning to the Present Moment. Adar II, Week 3

As we reach this third week of Adar Sheni, we return to wondering about time—asking ourselves to notice how much time we spend in the present moment and how much time we spend turning toward the past or reaching into the future.  

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Weekly Focus, Weekly TorahAway InMarch 19, 2019Adar II
Adar II, Week 2 — Draw Close
Adar II, Week 2 — Draw Close

Allow vulnerability.

            Practice gratitude,

            Stand by your word.

            Ask for help.

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Weekly Focus, Weekly TorahAway InMarch 14, 2019Adar II
Who Am I? Adar II, Week 2
Who Am I? Adar II, Week 2

Adar Sheni challenges us to notice the masks we put on to appear acceptable to ourselves and others and to perhaps let these masks fall away allowing ourselves to be revealed in more of our fullness.  

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Weekly Focus, Weekly TorahAway InMarch 12, 2019Adar II
Adar II, Week 1 — A Prayer for Rosh Hodesh
Adar II, Week 1 — A Prayer for Rosh Hodesh

May the mighty winds of this time bring blessings of transformation and renewal.

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Weekly Focus, Weekly TorahAway InMarch 7, 2019Adar II
Releasing. Adar II, Week 1
Releasing. Adar II, Week 1

The Mystery is Transformation, the Infinite responds in the moment we call. (Psalm 20:10)

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Weekly Focus, Weekly TorahAway InMarch 5, 2019Adar II
Adar I , Week 4 — Stop, Pause, Rest
Adar I , Week 4 — Stop, Pause, Rest

As we come into the final week of Adar Rishon, may we listen in the Torah’s call and be mindful of how we spend our time.

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Weekly Focus, Weekly TorahAway InFebruary 28, 2019Adar I
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