Before I finish preparing for Passover, here are two more Pathway posts to enhance your Passover experience, or throughout the season: some delicious ideas about symbolic Passover foods from the earth in the Gateway of Gardens, and a new Guided Meditation on Miriam’s Well in the Gateway of Wilderness (Miriam’s well and Miriam’s cup are already the subject of a couple of posts in the Gateway of Water Underground). For your convenience, you can find all Passover-related posts collected here.
If you are counting the Omer (a spiritual practice of counting the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot), you might enhance that with a look at Counting the Omer of your life, in the Gateway of Seasons.
If you can’t take a Passover retreat, take a break this week and explore Wellsprings of Wisdom!
In honor of Passover, I have revised a post on the Parting of the Sea. which is now on both the Gateway of Wind and the Gateway of the Sea! What is a miracle? How does the story of the Sea parting inspire us to help others and to grow as people? Hopefully there are some good questions here for personal reflection or to discuss at a Passover Seder. Enjoy and Happy Passover!
Also, since I’ve been asked, a reminder that photo credits are visible on hover (or light touch on a smaller device), except for featured images, which are credited at the bottom of each post. I am also gradually linking reposted photos from websites like Flickrback to their original location as possible. Photos by “JHD” are my own. Photos not by me, my family or friends (with their permission) are public domain or Creative Commons License.
Spring is coming, slowly but surely! In honor of springtime and Passover, a big thank you to Rabbi David Zaslow of Ashland, Oregon, for sharing “The Reason for the Season,” from his new book, Reimagining Exodus, in the Gateway of Seasons. He explores how the changing seasons affect our moods, and poses an intriguing question raised by our teacher, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi of blessed memory, about whether the Hebrew calendar and its holidays should be reversed for Jews living in the Southern Hemisphere.
There is a Jewish tradition to bless the renewal of the moon once each month from three days after the new moon appears and before it reaches fullness. (more…)
In case you haven’t visited the seashore lately, there is a new pathway postabout the sand at the shore on the new and growing Gateway of the Sea, where you will also find videos, images, and Torah study about oceans and seas.
Many people find a total solar eclipse to be an incredibly spiritual experience in nature that opens them to the vastness of the cosmos. It has a wonderful echo of the ancient legend of the Moon, because during the full solar eclipse the moon passes between earth and sun and blocks our view of the sun for a brief time, giving the illusion that the moon is the size of the sun. (more…)
The great German Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweigsaid that we relate to and experience God in three ways: Creation, Revelation, and Redemption. The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)’s depictions of the Sea encompass all three themes, and add one that he left out: destruction.
new Guided Meditation on Miriam’s Well in the Gateway of Wilderness (Miriam’s well and Miriam’s cup are already the subject of a couple of posts in the Gateway of Water Underground). For your convenience, you can find all Passover-related posts collected here.
Gateway of the Sea
Spring is coming, slowly but surely! In honor of springtime and Passover, a big thank you to Rabbi David Zaslow of Ashland, Oregon, for sharing “
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