Kabbalah Experience Evolves
Many of you have heard that Kabbalah Experience is restructuring its staff. Teacher Melanie Gruenwald will be the new Executive Director and our founder, Dr. David Sanders, will assume the position of Spiritual Director. It is an exciting time for them personally and for Kabbalah Experience. David and the KE Board of Directors wanted to […]
The Stream of Conscious Living
I was met with a blank stare. It was early morning and there wasn’t anyone else in the store. I placed my black boxed eggs on the counter and explained it was for those students completing the Human Narrative class. The eyes told me—if you want to change the way we treat animals, chickens in […]
Obtuse Angles
Kabbalah Experience was one of many community partners at the Israel Walk and Festival this past Sunday. As we ended a slow walk alongside early morning joggers at Washington Park there was a quiet group of protesters with banners, flags and signs. As I passed them I looked in each person’s eyes and thanked them […]
Pyramid Scheme
There are two basic ways to approach the holiday of Passover: External: The Passover reenactment is about what happened to others from another time and place. Internal: The Passover story is a conceit for looking at what enslaves you in your life today. The traditional Passover Seder is an “as if” experiment. Participants are asked […]
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all. Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may […]
Guest Blog for Purim Holiday:
The Mask I Wear
by Melanie Gruenwald
My child’s cancer diagnosis abruptly halted reflection on my own post-cancer body and soul. But after he died, it came roaring back. In Kabbalah this semester, we are studying “Masks”. What masks do we wear in our lives? And do we wear our masks or do they wear us…? This is the second level course […]
Final Jeopardy
You may not recognize the photo or even the name Randy Pausch. He died at age 47 from pancreatic cancer. During the final year of his life he shared with the world his Last Lecture—On Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. His inspired talk, as he said each time he delivered it, “is not about death, it’s […]
2020 Vision
Back in 2001, following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers there were Kabbalah teachers who pointed out a prophecy in the Zohar predicting “the fall of (three) towers in the city of Rome.” What was most impressive in that text was the date listed (that section of the Zohar was written no later […]
Word Cloud
You don’t believe in God? And I said, No. I believe in this connection we all have to nature, to each other, to the universe. And she said, Yeah, God. And how we stood there, low beasts among the white oaks, Spanish moss, and spider webs, obsidian shards stuck in our pockets, woodpecker flurry, and […]
Mary Poppins Returns
What was your most significant moment of 2018? It does not have to be a moment—it could be several moments or a “moment” that unfolds and is interconnected with other moments. It was over fifty years ago that my parents took me to the theater to see Mary Poppins. I was seven years old […]