Sivan, the month of milk and honey, When we rejoice in the slow rise of the bread And the cream of abundance: Here I am at its full moon In the middle of a howling storm. Earlier I drove down to the river, Which had burst its banks. White-tailed black cockatoos wheeled in their flocks, Shrieking like witches dancing between raindrops. Two ten-year-olds In pink and orange kayaks Were paddling round the flooded playground. Like Moses on the mountain peak, they sat Open-hande

We welcome you to tune into the next session in our Hineni with Ami parshah series: accessible embodied Judaism and yoga inspired by the weekly Parshah and Chassidic wisdom. This week’s parshah, Beha’alotecha, explores themes of longing and connection. Drawing from the Baal Shem Tov and the Or Torah of the Maggid of Mezritch, we’ll reflect on the idea that we are shaped through relationship - longing, yearning, and reaching toward one another. Through movement, breathwork, an

This week’s Torah portion brings us one of the most beautiful gifts in all of Torah — a blessing for peace. Moses receives not just laws, but a script — actual words and gestures for how to channel divine blessing into the world. We’re going to explore that today, through our bodies. When the Chassidic master the Kedushat Levi looks at the priestly blessing, he notices something remarkable: that blessing moves through our hands. The way we hold them, open them, extend them —