Muchas Gracias
Quirino, Janeth, Guillermo, Marcella, Rodrigo, were among the many friendly, helpful staff during our vacation stay in Mexico. They smiled incessantly and offered consummate hospitality. Sometimes our ‘gracias’ was met with ‘de nada,’ but more often with an even broader smile. The staff learned our names and used them in greeting us. One greeter was […]
Sealed with a Kiss: Eulogy for Bob Loup
Based on the Song of Songs (Chapter 8: 6-7) We place you Bob as a seal upon our hearts We place you Bob as a seal upon our arms For love is truly stronger than death A fire whose flame burns eternally For all the waters of the world Cannot extinguish our love for you Rita […]
Celebrating and Mourning Bob Loup
To Our KE community: The man of a thousand lives slipped into another realm early Thursday morning. Bob Loup, a long-time student of KE whose daily meditation practice was “D’layt Atar Panuey Menay” (There is no place empty of You) was my surrogate Dad and the surrogate Zayde (grandfather) to our young girls. There is […]
Love Doesn’t Die
by Dr. David Sanders You learn so much at a funeral about the person and about yourself. Her daughter called to let me know she had died, “she so much liked the classes.” Alice Ruback started to study Kabbalah at age 87. Her mind was sharp, her wit even sharper. Her manner gentle, comforting and […]
Dr. David Sanders’ Interview with Science of Mind Magazine
Exciting! An excerpt from Dr. David Sanders’ Interview with Science of Mind Magazine’s February Issue Finding the Parallels: An Ancient Practice in Today’s World by Julie Mierau “There are things that science may not be able to ever explain,” Sanders says. “The mystery is that there is mystery. Quantum entan- glement in physics — that […]
Wonder Girls
At bedtime last night my girls wanted to know the names of female superheroes and were thrilled to hear me name Wonder Woman. I had little more to add to describing her to them as the last encounter I had with her was a comic book fifty years ago. I looked her up to learn […]
Beacons of Light
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give […]
True Colors
The latest DreamWorks children’s film is Trolls which pits the mean, depressed mono-chromatic Bergens against the fun-loving, exuberant, multi-colored Trolls. The Bergens hold the belief that the only way they can experience happiness is by eating trolls. The Trolls are led by Poppy. She is adorable, she sings, she dances, she is fun and that […]
Transforming Darkness to Light
Mind is the Master Power that molds and makes And Man is Mind And evermore he takes The tool of Thought Shaping what he wills Brings forth a thousand joys A thousand ills James Allen begins his book, “As Man Thinketh” with this poem—setting the stage for an understanding of the Kabbalah principle of how […]
Sacred Luminosity
On December 21, 1978 an editorial in the New York Times by Anne Roiphe caused a stir in me and many others. Her topic was the celebration of Christmas in her Jewish home, choosing to celebrate it and not celebrate Hanukkah. At the time, Anne was married to a man who was not Jewish but […]