Thursday, July 23, 2020 – 2 Av 5780
Devarim: Deuteronomy 1:1 – 3:22
Become aware of your thoughts, words and actions today. Notice which come with difficulty and which with ease; what distracts you and what engages your interest and feels wholesome in your body; what feels distant and what brings you closer to serving the will of God. (Success, p. 223)
Friday, July 24, 2020 – 3 Av 5780
Devarim: Deuteronomy 1:1 – 3:22
“It is now forty years Adonai, your God, is accompanying you, you have lacked nothing.”
You were created to walk lightly, play joyfully, and soar abundantly with the Creator of this universe. (Creativity, p. 228)
Saturday, July 25, 2020 – 4 Av 5780
Devarim: Deuteronomy 1:1 – 3:22
Moses recaps the many battles and conquests along the way.
The power you give away is a power of illusion. The real power is not in your ego; it is in your divinity. That power is eternal. (Glory, p. 242)
Sunday, July 26, 2020 – 5 Av 5780
Va’etchanan: Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11
Moses recalls how he pleaded with God to cross the Jordan and see the Promised Land.
Let go of the way you think things ought to be, and open to a more expansive, dynamic, organic view of the way things are. (Method, p. 24)
Monday, July 27, 2020 – 6 Av 5780
Va’etchanan: Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11
Moses tells the Israelites, “You who cling to God, all of you are alive today.”
The state of being attached to God is called devekut. Devekut is the process of merging with the Divine, going beyond yourself and your self-imposed boundaries. Devekut is an intimacy in which all thoughts and ideas are transparent between you and God. It is seeing God through the same eyes that God sees you through. (Creativity, p. 285)
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 – 7 Av 5780
Va’etchanan: Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11
If you search for the Lord, your God, you will find God, if you seek God with all your heart and soul…..
You see, hear, and know God in your own experience rather than in another’s knowledge or language. In mystical Judaism, God is a direct experience of a direct relationship. Another cannot bring God to you more authentically than you can on your own. (Understanding, p. 99)
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 – 8 Av 5780
Va’etchanan: Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11
“It was not with our fathers that the Lord made this covenant, but with us, the living, every one of us who is here today.”
Each generation and each individual come to God in their own way. (Understanding, p. 99)
