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Embracing Your Shadow - The Sanctity of Purim

What is in the clothing that we wear, the hats that we place upon our heads, the masks that we put on, that allows us to reveal things about ourselves, that otherwise would remain hidden?

Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar is known as Yom Hakipurim, which if translated means “the day like Purim.” Many Chasidik masters have said
that Purim in all its merrymaking and fun and in all its mysteries is the day that is even holier than Yom Kippur.

What about Purim makes it so holy? What about getting dressed up and drunk is sacred?

Winter has arrived, and as the bears, snakes, and other wildlife hibernate, many of us find that we are doing the same. We go inside, a space of deep reflection. We dress ourselves in layers of coats and blankets, warming ourselves with cups of tea, coffee and hot cocoa.

May your heart desire what your soul needs and may those yearnings be fulfilled.

Wishing all a Healthy, Peaceful and Prosperous New Year.

There is a Midrash that God's angel went to all the nations asking each one if they wanted the Torah.

Each one asked - “What is written in the Torah”
and the angel told them about one specific commandment
The nation said - "No, Thank you."

Life has a way of being so hectic that “I” can get lost. Between being a parent, an employee, building my practice, and writing papers as a student, my core can go missing in the process. I lose touch with myself and the very things that make me, me.

Passover is all about leaving Egypt – that place of enslavement - and going to a place of freedom.

Notice that when the Jews left they were in the "not-knowing place". Primarily because the generation leaving Egypt was a generation born into captivity one that had never known anything but enslavement, and here they were leaving to the unknown… trusting that voice that told them to move ahead.

There is a powerful paradox in living. It is to the extent that we feel our pain, that our joy is experienced.