Parashat Emor 5779 by Meir Sendor We were in the midst of our Tal Orot training course for meditation teachers Tuesday night, in the meditation room high atop Livnot U’Lehibanot overlooking Mount Meron and the valley of Nachal Amud, when…
What Love’s Got To Do With It
Parashat Kedoshim 5779 by Meir Sendor Traveling in the Golan this week with good friends, we visited Gamla. Two millennia ago it was a thriving community, but it was besieged and destroyed by the Romans in 67 C.E., most of…
No Self Radio
Shevi’I shel Pesach 5779 by Meir Sendor It’s Hol HaMoed Pesach and Israelis are on the move all over the country. Getting out to enjoy the natural beauty of the Land is a favorite activity, and together with the Israel…
Freedom Ride
Online Course in Jewish Meditation Instruction We’re now in the process of forming an online course in Jewish Meditation Instruction. If you are interested, please let us know! Parashat Metzora – Shabbat HaGadol 5779 by Meir Sendor We voted in…
What’s Up, Doc?
Parashat Tazria – Parashat haHodesh 5779 by Meir Sendor Jewish historians have noticed an odd recurring image in a number of medieval illuminated manuscripts of the Pesach Haggadah. Like modern haggadot, these medieval versions are decorated with pictures illustrating the…
Eloquent Quiet
New Course in Jewish Meditation Training in Tzfat and online! For details, please see our page here. Parashat Shemini 5779 by Meir Sendor There is a time to be quiet and a time to speak (Kohelet 3:7). And then…
The Scream
Purim Consciousness To listen to the class given on Purim Consciousness on March 17, 2019 at Nishmat in Jerusalem, please click on this link. The source sheet can be found here. Parashat Tzav – Purim 5779 by Meir Sendor Mordechai’s immediate reaction…
Student Teacher Ratio
Parashat Vayikra 5779 by Meir Sendor A Tzfat resident complained to me a few weeks back that he was interested in learning something about Kabbalah, since it’s the town specialty, but every rabbi in town he had approached had just…
Close Encounters
Parashat Pekudei 5779 by Meir Sendor We had the first dry, sunny day in a while and I figured to take the opportunity to get in an early morning run. The route I like is one that includes a long…