If we have been scared lately, like our ancestors waiting for Moses, if we have felt the absence of something or someone we need, this parsha is for us. We are not alone in reaching for something solid when the ground feels uncertain. That is human. That is ancient. That has been true since before Sinai.
Read MoreEve: “Pinky swear?” I reached out toward my camera with my pinky.
God: “Pinky swear.” God smiled and reached back toward me.
We pinky swore through the screen, folding distances of all kinds.
Maybe when we pray, maybe when we take our love and our kindness and breathe life into it so it can live in the world, maybe when we come together and care for one another, maybe we are creating a dimensional experience where we activate something on God’s side of the screen.
Read MoreV’etchanan, this week’s parsha. V’etchanan, which means, “I pleaded.”
Maybe when we are charged to love God with our whole two-vet hearts, we are charged with remembering that we are created in God’s image and charged with having hearts that reflect the hearts of one another.
NOAH (GENESIS 6:9 – 11:32 )
It is this parsha in which I find my heart, and it is also this parsha that breaks it.
