With us in the middle of the High Holy Days, I was particularly happy to get an email from a friend discussing the analogy that we draw between ourselves and our Master Craftsman.
During the Yom Kippur services, we say, “Here we are, like silver in the hands of the Refiner….”
It is also written in Malachi 3:3: ‘He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.’
My friend went on to share….. Read the rest of this entry »
We are very excited that Varda has agreed to share several of her writings with us and here’s the first. Varda is a wonderful writer and poet that has been published in many places. Her book of collected writings, “In the Night I Remembered your Name” is one of my favorites.
We’re lucky to have her here in Jerusalem. Although Varda is a woman of substance with great spiritual depths, she brings out the fun in me. We have been frequently asked if we are sisters. Being the same good height, we are a great dancing duo at weddings. Her houseful of wonderful children and now grandkids is a inspiration. When I asked her how to describe her, she answered “a fool looking for wisdom!”
We would like for you to react to her poems and will be posting two more in the hear future. What do they bring up for you? See mine below and enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »
We all have a tape running inside our heads. All the information that we need to recall quickly is stored there, all our experiences, all our judgments. It is a really useful tape. You don’t need to sort all you know about color to come up with “blue”, you don’t need to sort all of your memories and knowledge to come up with “Grandma doesn’t like strawberries”.
