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I remember the morning after I had learned some of the most personally upsetting and disturbing news of my life. I sat there in the dark early hours of the morning feeling betrayed, foolish and perplexed. My footing had been pulled from beneath me and I could not make sense of what had happened. I had no certain grasp of reality or a predictable future. I sat at the kitchen table just breathing. It was then in the silence of everything I...Read more...

I suspect that many of us grew up with images of God and messages about God that did not serve us. More challenging is that some of these messages still live within us, even when logically they do not fit in our beliefs. At High Holy Days, the most consistent Jewish practice for many of us, we confront these images directly and often it creates a barrier for connection. So many of our Jewish teaching point to love as the field for exploring...Read more...