Debby Titlebaum Neuman

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May 12, 2025, 6:49 AM

Lessons for Survival

Last week when I was alone meditating in the hills there was a siren. I wish I were writing about the mythical creature, but no, I am writing about missile sirens. They sometimes wail in the morning, other times...

Apr 18, 2024, 4:02 PM

Mourning and Living

I am sitting on the earth in the shade, my cat is licking his belly at my feet. The winter wind is blowing through the pines. I stare at the sky, sometimes noticing patterns in the clouds; more often...

Oct 31, 2023, 10:28 AM

My resources lie in the crevices of a heart that seems to have exploded in my body, or they are non-existent, when all I can do is breathe. Barely. My resources play in points of gratitude, in moments of presence, practice, and process....

Oct 24, 2023, 12:16 AM

Indigenous people

From my village I can see a third of the country’s coastline, we have spectacular sunsets, especially in the winter. This country is not the one I grew up in but the one I returned to. My grandparents never...

Oct 20, 2023, 4:44 PM

I Want You to Know

I want you to know: That you can let go of the fear and that it is okay to turn the music up loud and sing. In fact, do it- sing out loud a song for our soldiers and then sing...

Sep 25, 2015, 6:17 PM

Words of our heart

I love our tradition and it is hard for me. This year on Yom Kippur I felt a block. Not with myself, not with my Creator, not with my world; but with words. In the early morning walking down the side...

Sep 17, 2015, 10:42 AM

Flowing in the Ten Days

Yesterday in shul, the woman next to me lifted her head, coming up for air from her pool of prayers and said, 'I just want to do this all the time. I wish Rosh Hashanah was every day'. I...

Sep 9, 2015, 8:39 PM

Keepin’ it real this Rosh Hashanah

The shofar is the sound of the deepest place within each of us and it strikes awe in even the most complacent

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About Me

Debby is a mother, writer, childbirth educator, spiritual teacher, forest gan manager, and doula. When she is not teaching, writing, or attending births she can most often be found wandering the Judean hills foraging wild edibles, strumming her ukelele, and feeling gratitude at the wonders of creation.

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