As the Spirit Moves Me

Each year as Passover approaches I’m given reason to consider my fears and how I deal with them. I do this because I remember learning about how fearful the Children of Israel felt at the shore of the Red Sea as the Egyptians approached. I was at an event near my home in Silicon Valley [...]

March 18th, 2010 | Tags: Egptians, fear, Israelites, Moses, Passover, Rabbi Lew, Rabbi Nachman, Red Sea, thoughts | Category: action, Courage, faith, Making holidays meaning-full and spirit-full, moving through fear, Passover, Pesach, Rebbe Nachman, thought | Leave a comment

Today, President Barak Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslow, Norway, as the world debates whether or not he deserves the award. I’ve been asked if I think President Obama deserves a Nobel Peace Prize… I don’t think I’m one to judge. I tend to not be very politically minded. I do, however, have some [...]

December 10th, 2009 | Tags: accountability partners, achieving goals, Barak Obama, expectations, God, meeting expectations, Moses, Nobel Peace Prize, soul's purpose | Category: achieving success, celebrities, goals, purpose | Leave a comment

Today, the 17th of Tammuz on the Jewish calendar, marks the anniversary of many terribly events.  The first of these came when Moses smashed the first set of tablets he obtained atop Mt. Sinai after he found the Israelites worshiping the Golden Calf. Then, on the same date, the Babylonians entered Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. The [...]

July 9th, 2009 | Tags: 17th of Tammuz, Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem, broken tablets, burning of Torah, destruction of Temple, exile, fast day, focus, Golden Calf, Moses | Category: focused thought, Jewish holidays, manifestation | Leave a comment

While I was at the Aleph Kallah I had the opportunity to participate in a Red Heifer ritual led by Rabbi Shefa Gold. This ritual is not one normally performed…at least not that I know of, and it likely has not been performed since the days of the temple. We, of course, in Jewish renewal [...]

July 7th, 2009 | Tags: chok, faith, fear, Golden Calf, idol worship, Moses, moving through fear, Mt. Sinai, purification ritual, Rabbi Shefa Gold, Red Heifer, ritual | Category: creating change, human potential, intention, living fully, moving through fear, personal growth, priestess, ritual | Leave a comment

As I was preparing for my monthly podcast on Conversations with Mrs. Claus (www.thefamilyyak.com), I was going over my subject – Passover, which is fast approaching, and thinking about ways to talk about this Jewish holiday so that people of all faiths and spiritual backgrounds would find the podcast interesting. I realized that in the story [...]

March 27th, 2009 | Tags: Aladdin Factor, ask for what you want, destiny, Exodus, Israelites exodus from Egypt, Jack Canfield, listen to God, Moses, Passover, Passover story, personal connection with God, Pesach, Pharoah, see miracles, ta-keh | Category: Divine Purpose, faith, God's hand, miracles, Passover, Pesach | Comments (1)