Category: Meditation
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Opening To Presence: Where Jewish Mindfulness Meets Lived Disability Experience
A new offering with Or HaLev We live in profoundly challenging and unsteady times. I have found, again and again, that cultivating my own capacity for inner resourcing has been absolutely essential. There are many pieces to that and one of the most significant and transformative has been the practice…
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What Allows Our Practice to Flourish?
On Parashat Terumah Parashat Terumah, read the Shabbat of Feb 20-21 in 5786 begins an extended reflection and discussion of sacred space. The Mishkan, the portable sanctuary the people create from gifts brought for its purpose accompanies them as they journey in the desert. It is a place for the…
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What Can Remind Us of Our Interconnection?
Some contemplation for Parashat Beshalach This Shabbat is a special one. Known as Shabbat shira—the Shabbat of song—it is one of two times in the annual Torah reading cycle that we publicly read the Song at the Sea. This song contains what has become a famous verse in many communities.…
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Institute for Jewish Spirituality Daily Meditation Sit
I was honored to hold the Institute for Jewish Spirituality’s Daily Sit on December 12, 2025. You can practice using the recording of that sit on IJS’ YouTube channel here.
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Jewish Meditation with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality
Rabbi Tuchman lead a meditation practice with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality for Shabbat Nachamu. This sit includes a fifteen-minute question and response period after the formal practice. August 8, 2025
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Daily Meditation Sit
For this Daily Meditation sit with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, Rabbi Tuchman helps calm the mind and engage spiritually. This was offered on November 27, 2024.
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Daily Meditation Sit on August 23
This meditation was hosted on August 23, 2024 by the Institute for Jewish Spirituality.
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman 