Louis Kahn, the great American architect, died in 1974 in a washroom at Penn Station. He was alone when his heart gave out. His only son, Nathan was eleven. A …
Holding Your Opposite
Which is it—grey or gray? Isn’t it fitting that there isn’t a black and white answer. Turns out they are both acceptable ways to spell my favorite color. Gray …
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Orchestrating Change
Awareness principle four: Live by setting intention. Be open to possibility—one door closing opens another. Measure success by effort not by outcome. In the Tree of Life this awareness …
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Accepting, Living, Surrendering
The voice synthesizer fell silent, the screen turned black. The vast network of neurons in his brain, much like the stars in the sky at dawn, began to recede from …
If Not Now, When?
If it was simple to be (fully) present “now” would we need so much instruction on how to be in the moment? Kabbalah places our relationship to time at …
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Objects in the Mirror
Over the next 11 blog posts, we will look at one of the 11 principles of awareness, which we link with the Sefirot of the Tree of Life. We start …
A Broken Halleluyah
Rabbi Koby Gruenwald z”l died this past Friday, January 19, survived by his father and mother, sister and brother. His bereft congregation and community mourned his loss this past Sunday. …
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Naming Rights: What Name Will You Adopt for 2018?
Have you ever had this thought: “I am never going to get those 30 minutes back?” It may be more time or less time, and the regret may be over …
Evening the Evening: A Practice For Winter’s Darkness
Have you ever been in a desolate area, on a cloudless night, enveloped by darkness and look skyward at the vast expanse of stars? Darkness is a contrast to light. …
Humaneness
Leave it up to humans to language benevolence toward animals as “humane” and a lack of compassion as “inhumane.” It reflects that tendency humans have to see things (only) from …