The Dark Night of the Soul
Darkness is an overarching theme of Jacob’s life.
Darkness is an overarching theme of Jacob’s life.
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According to the source-critical approach, Chayei Sara contains three segments.
In many ways, the story of Abraham in Parashat Vayera, is the detail – what the Rabbis called the ‘p’rat’ – of the Noach story.
Can we be like Abram? Can we center ourselves on our morality and center each other’s humanity? Can we hold difference and create space? Can we recognize grievance and pain, diversity and blessing? Can we leverage wealth and power not for prestige and conquest but for compassion and the common good?
Not so long ago, before the Jewish High Holidays, my five-year-old daughter – the middle child – insightfully asked me whether God ever makes mistakes.
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‘Did they’, she wondered out loud, ‘consider the gardens they planted, their last garden?’
Be still, my soul, the Psalmist sings. Isn’t that soothing? Isn’t that what the current moment cries out for?