Judith Hanson Lasater on Making Peace with the Present Moment
Judith Hanson Lasater with B. K. S. Iyengar
On Monday, 1/28/13, from 7-7:30 PM EST, 6-6:30 PM CST, for Tiferet Talk, I will have the honor of speaking with writer, yoga instructor, psychologist, and physical therapist Judith Hanson...
EXPLORING THE DIVINE FEMININE
Some newly restored frescoes in the Catacombs of Priscilla show what many see as evidence that the early Christian church had women priests. But The Vatican quickly dismissed the claims of the Women's Ordination...
Kabbalah in Winesburg, Ohio
When I studied Integrated Kabbalistic Healing, my teacher Jason Shulman told us about the Hebrew word yesh. One way to translate the word is simply as “there is” or “there are.” But a yesh...
Will You Be My Mother?
I had been in Rwanda for a month, tracing the footsteps of the genocide in the ten thousand hills. This was my last morning, alone in the genocide museum near Kigali. The perfect place...
Underneath the Tarot Moon
I have a monthly tarot card date with my friend Tania. Tania taught me how to read the cards about twenty years ago. She got married thirteen years ago and moved to California and...
Knitting as Zen Practice
For years, I've had a knotty relationship with knitting. As a teenager, I envied friends who, having learned the skill from their mothers, aunts or grandmothers, whipped up scarves and sweaters. In my freshman...
2013 Contest Winners
Poetry Winners/Honorable Mentions
Definitions by Sandra Kohler
Winner
A Little Nightmusic by Ami Kaye
Honorable Mention Fox Knows Through Her Window by Katharyn Machan
Honorable Mention Fiction Winners/Honorable Mentions
The Root System of Trees by Judith Dancoff
Winner
The Whole Truth by Bob Minder
Honorable...
Into the Mystic: Jane Lead
Contrary to popular opinion, “Protestant mystic” is not an oxymoron. Indeed, during the first century or two following the Reformation a great abundance of Protestant mystics flourished. The Silesian cobbler Jacob Boehme may be...
Natalie Goldberg Interview on Tiferet Talk
Today I will have the great fortune of speaking with author, poet, teacher, and painter, Natalie Goldberg about her forthcoming book, The True Secret of Writing for Tiferet Talk. Goldberg is the author of the seminal writing books Writing Down the...