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Mar 20, 2025, 11:10 PM

Poem Parashat Vayakhel: Vertical Imprecation

What if the Mishkan could feel like a more personal experience - one of infinite discovery? The Zohar on this week's parasha discusses meditation on our unity with Gd. The parasha itself primarily focuses on building the Mishkan and...

Mar 12, 2025, 5:13 AM

A Ki Tisa Poem: Transmutation

This poem emerges from a parashat that tells of a particularly dark moment in our history—a time when our people fashioned and worshipped a golden calf. In response, I chose to explore a positive theme of t transmutation within...

Mar 6, 2025, 11:29 PM

Parashat Tetzaveh: Light Reflections

Just how far can the feeling of peace from Shabbat be extended? We don’t say “Have a joyful Shabbat” (Shabbat sameycha), and yet we say “have a joyful holiday” (chag sameyach) with almost all Jewish holidays. We instead say...

Feb 27, 2025, 11:22 PM

Parashat Teruma: See Your Heart From Another Angel

We looked at each other and were surprised to notice that both of us had gone through unbelievably strange events in each of our personal lives. We both admitted that if we each wrote a book about what we...

Feb 20, 2025, 11:13 PM

Parashat Mishpatim: Heart-Core Meditation

For part of my life, I was in such a rational environment that I didn't know much about intuition and making decisions from the heart. According to the Zohar on this week's Parashat Mishpatim (116a -117b), it says the heart...

Feb 13, 2025, 11:48 PM

Parashat Yitro: Your “Soul” Focus

“Belief applies not to what can be known. Belief relates to the unknowable essence. To believe in something is to be irrationally drawn towards it with all your being since it is part of you.” – Rabbi Shneur Zalman of...

Feb 6, 2025, 8:06 PM

Parashat Beshalach: Ask Your “Ma”

According to the most recent data from UNESCO, only 5 percent of the ocean has been explored. This is also interesting when you consider that the ocean makes up 71 percent of Earth's surface (and likely more in the...

Jan 30, 2025, 9:57 PM

Parashat Bo: When Everyone Clicks

Out of the many ways Gd could have plagued the Egyptians, why did he pick these particular plagues? The eighth plague to the Egyptians (and the first one in Parashat Bo) was locusts. Perhaps locusts with their single-minded purpose...

Jan 23, 2025, 10:52 PM

Parashat Vaera: More Powerful Than Imagination

Could emotions be more powerful than imagination? In this week’s parasha, we learn that at first, the Israelites could not listen to Moses because of their emotional state (6:9). Later on, when they go free, what would they really believe...

Jan 16, 2025, 10:17 PM

Parashat Shemot: Royally Satisfied

Our eyes only see 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum (range of light wavelengths), and that small percentage still shows so much beauty. Hidden to us are different divine realms, finite or maybe even infinite sometimes. I like to also...

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For questions, contact me: oragadarah [at] gmail [dot] com She aims to be elegantly interdisciplinary in all her work, reflecting the richness, beauty, and depth of life and Judaism. Torah teacher, hypnotherapist, and artist. With has over 15 years of experience leading various Jewish classes and previously served as a synagogue board member and a scout leader at a very young age. Studied psychology, physics, and Jewish studies. Studied with the world's most renowned scholars in creative studies. Won first prize for a short story about her life at the age of 11 and is working on several other books. She recently published "Better Than You Wished: Poetic Meditations from Torah, Science and Life," link here: [https://shorturl.at/ClD5Q]. It was a bestseller in mysticism. She is based in Paris (like her last name), where she promoted the first series of Jewish community events on sustainability and later other events to learn about health or support peoples creative expression.