A Mother bird hovering over her chicks (Deut: 22:6) which can also symbolize Shechinah protecting the people Israel.

To continue deepening our practice, I’m delighted to share this month’s Hineni with Ami: Yoga and Jewish Spirituality. As we exhale from the fullness of Tishrei, Cheshvan invites us into integration — the quiet work of absorbing what was planted in the holidays and letting it flow into our daily rhythm. Cheshvan is the month of water — gentle, steady, soaking in. With no holidays, it offers us a sacred pause, a chance to slow down, return to the body, and find holiness in the

As the festivals recede may the transcendent light of pure teshuva remind us of the resolves we made which seal not only our fate but our intimacy with the Divine, our beloved May all the contracted thoughts and obstacles, all the aversions, the wrestling and judgements cease, our ratzon restored to its true strength. We move to Bereishit the creation story and it will be new as if never before heard. New and yet familiar as it resonates in memory; the stretching forth of the