Making room for God

God is From as far back as I can remember, God has been real for me. I don’t know where that comes from. My family wasn’t religious. We never discussed religion or God. I haven’t always seen eye to eye with God of course. We’ve had our differences and fallings out. I’ve turned my back

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“Let me see Your glory!” Davenen through the Four Worlds (Ki Tisa & Pesach)

D’var Torah on Ex. 33:12-23 At Pesach[1] we are called to go ‘up’, physically and metaphorically, to journey beyond our narrowness, and dare to live in our fullness. By the time of today’s reading[2], we’ve travelled into the desert, complained many times, received the Torah, ten commandments, and detailed instructions for building the mishkan, prayed

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God hidden, whereabouts unknown – notes on the book by Miles-Yepez & Schachter-Shalomi

These are my own gleanings from a book by Netanel Miles-Yepez & Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, God Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: the Holy Ari and the ‘Contraction of God’ (2021, Albion-Andalus). I hope they encourage you to buy the book. I have paraphrased in order to clarify my own understanding, but there are also direct quotations from the

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