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MOONWALK MONTHLY: ELUL - A High Holiday Appeal for the Skeptics Among Us 🎥

MOONWALK MONTHLY: ELUL - A High Holiday Appeal for the Skeptics Among Us 🎥

This time of year, I hear my own inner skeptic say, “Why bother?” Isn’t this idea of starting the new year over a bit outdated? After all, we are Jews. There’s no Times Square fanfare or a ball to drop. Yes, there are apples and honey, but frankly, I’d rather eat a brownie. 

MOONWALK MONTHLY: AV - Tender, Brave Love 💗 What do you hear? 👂🏽

MOONWALK MONTHLY: AV - Tender, Brave Love 💗 What do you hear? 👂🏽

Shalom, Rabbi, I have a question. Why is it that when I experience true beauty, a mama lion serenely cradling her cub, a cub fully vulnerable and relaxed into her mama’s embrace, do I experience a pain in my heart? I immediately feel a pain and a fear that someone will harm either of them or that bad things will happen to them? What in me needs healing to let go of this fear and despair that beauty is under attack, that vulnerability and love will be destroyed?

A New and Sweet Year

A New and Sweet Year

A blessing for you and yours in the video above. 

For insights into the shofar, hear my recent song-filled sermon here. 11 min.

To join us tonight and over these Awesome Days at my shul in San Diego. We will broadcast live - tune in here.

Shana tova!

Professor Elie Wiesel - Catalyst or Memory?

Professor Elie Wiesel - Catalyst or Memory?

Our world is becoming an increasingly scary place. 

We need to strengthen our resolve to seek tov, to seek goodness.

One way: seek peace by looking in each other's eyes.

Click here to listen to me preach about this man as I look into his eyes.  

A Wilderness Prayer: Passover to Shavuot

A Wilderness Prayer: Passover to Shavuot

Walkin' with the One. Such a relief. A prayer for the sacred count up from Passover to Shavuot. Walk with me through the barley fields.  

Passover TORAH: Water & Light to Heal

Passover TORAH: Water & Light to Heal

The fresh month of Nisan began this weekend. It's the month of Uri'el, Spring, Passover, blossoms and balance. Click the blossom above to have a special listen in to our April MoonWalk, recorded live 4/5/16. To join, go to http://www.thisisras.com/shop/moonwalk.

Big & Small Mind

Big & Small Mind

When you walk on the beach, where do your eyes rest? A VIDEO teaching inspired by Hassidut, Judaism's mystical wild-side. An opportunity to train in spiritual warriorship, to notice our mind's patterns to cultivate choice and empowered self expression. 

Want more? Join me on an upcoming FREE CALLS. Details inside. 

Does Opportunity "Knock"?

Does Opportunity "Knock"?

הִזדַמְנוּת - OPPORTUNITY.

At the root of the the Hebrew word for opportunity is the word for time, or moment. 

What does opportunity look like and sound like, in your life? What is the potential of one moment to alter our lives? Here's a peak into Moses' life and just one of those tiny, GIANT, moments. 

How to Stop

How to Stop

Each day we light fires and put them out. We break things and build. We plant and harvest, tear and smooth. Six days a week we effort, tirelessly to create. In the year 200 C.E., the rabbis of the Mishna got radical. They took a list of 39 artisan techniques -- threshing, winnowing, sowing, skinning, weaving and tearing -- and transformed it from a checklist to create into an invitation to be created. Shabbat is one of these nights.