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WRITINGS

Writings from the soul, to stir the soul.
A collection of reflections that will uplift, enlighten and spark the wisdom within
Rosh Hashana: The Beginning of Beginnings
This, and every High Holiday season, we wish each other a “Happy New Year,” a “Sweet New Year.” We want and desire for the year ahead to...
Rachel Ashkenazi
Sep 20
The Blessing in the Three Weeks
The festivities take pause. The music, silenced. We mourn. Our joy diminished, inward we retreat. To search, to self-reflect. To...
Rachel Ashkenazi
Jul 13
Mitzvah, Avera & Teshuva
In the beginning, G-d created a most magnificent world, a physical paradise brimming with an unimaginable spiritual intimacy with Him....
Rachel Ashkenazi
Jun 9
Emet: The Root of Us
An utterance, an entire world. A syllable, an infinite vastness. Torah language is robust and complex, and endlessly layered. A word is...
Rachel Ashkenazi
May 5
The Freedom of Constraints
The bird glides gracefully through his space without boundaries, without borders the world his to see and to explore. Right or left, up...
Rachel Ashkenazi
Apr 1
Faith
To be demanded of us that which we can not see or feel. Taste or smell. It evades our senses, our fingertips unable to grasp. A thought...
Rachel Ashkenazi
Feb 6
The Spirituality of Flaxseed
Anyone who knows me knows of my less than ideal eating habits. Twix for breakfast, Nutella croissant for lunch and coffee Haagen Dazs...
Rachel Ashkenazi
Feb 2
Life’s Purpose
I was once taught a little insight about discovering one's purpose in this world. Our purpose is comprised of two major factors in our...
Marlene Bibi
Jan 28
The Action of Trust
We are a people of action. Our very proclamation, the very first words we proclaimed to G-d leave no room for doubt, “we will do and we...
Rachel Ashkenazi
Dec 24, 2024
To Know
To know ourselves and to know G-d. The knowledge that extends past belief and surpasses faith. To know unequivocally who we are and who...
Rachel Ashkenazi
Sep 10, 2024
Dearest Reuben
The following is a letter written to our 18 year old son, Reuben, who was fortunate to take a trip this year to Poland. The teachers from...
Marlene Bibi
Aug 13, 2024
The Pattern of Life IV - Time
To meet in time, come face to face A symbiotic essence With which to harmonize, to ascend To a symbiotic essence To grow again The...
Rachel Ashkenazi
Aug 5, 2024
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