Enjoy this playlist inspired by the dream theme in this week’s Torah portion Vayeitzei. I hope it encourages you (and me) to create conscious opportunities to dream our important dreams, and to wake with the all the stuff we need to build them in this world.
Why is the Temple Mount so terribly fraught with conflict? Chaya shares a smashing poetic vision that unravels the paradox of the world's most holy & most contested site.
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the splendor.
the receiving.
the taste of aleph-beis on my tongue.
the tambourine beating in my blood.
Nostalgia calls,
Beaming from ancient hillsides,
A legacy lay dormant,
buried in the Judean soil
contoured crests and valleys
unfolding along a lush river of time;
The sound of the effort to escape is also the sound of the effort to know where you are now.
A set of poems and thoughts written by some of Hevria's writers in reaction to the terror attack that took five lives in a Jerusalem synagogue today.
Heron, your indifference, your beak to the sky, your unmoving, ruffled stance on the crumbling seawall, your staunch you-ness, it’s so easy for you. To be you. You through and through.
Another terror victim has died. She has a remarkable story. This poem is offered up in her memory.
Eve lives inside my skin...she is primal, she is woman, she is curious, she is new, she is wild...Eve is not "The fallen slut that caused all the trouble," though oversimplifications of texts would have us believe that.
I exist beyond biology....I am a warrior and my cause is honesty...I choose to feel everything.
