Reflections on the common table: who has a seat?
If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.― Shauna Niequist If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. — Michael Enzi I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the […]
Lev/Heart as reflected in the Jewish prayer known as the Shema: home of your intellect, emotions, and discernment and decision-making, integrating body-mind-spirit
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don’t you? ― Rumi We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple […]
Ahava / Love as reflected in Jewish prayer known as Shema
There is no remedy for love but to love more.—Henry David Thoreau The first two of these commandments —love for God and love for our fellow humans —are actualized through mitzvot, a system that shapes idealsinto behavior and is deepened through communal norms.— Joanna Samuels Love God. Love God with everything you are: heart, mind, […]