The Dance of the Dolphin

Using the analogy of the dolphin who breathes in two seemingly incompatible worlds, water and air, a rabbi instructs people how to navigate and thrive in two conflicting worlds, the rational/material and the spiritual, arguing that balancing these two worlds is the source of spiritual survival.

Acknowledgments

ix

Imagining the Dance

xi

Prayer: The Language of the Spirit

The Iron Wings

5

(9)

Navigating the Heavens

14

(3)

Meditation on the Beach of Boca Raton

17

(4)

Grace

21

(4)

And Then There Was Light

25

(4)

Mystery

29

(3)

Communal Prayer: The Philosophy of the Minyan

32

(7)

May the Words of My Mouth

39

(10)

Perspective: The Language of Thought

Choice as a Spiritual Law

49

(4)

Envision

53

(4)

Memory: Life Retold or Unlearned

57

(7)

Reflection, Then Reaction

64

(5)

Lingering

69

(4)

Watch

73

(6)

Interpretation

79

(4)

Change for the Sake of Transformation

83

(10)

Meaning

Searching for Meaning

93

(3)

Shema: Listening Is the Language of the Soul

96

(11)

Yisrael: Struggling with Reality

107

(6)

Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad: All Is One

113

(8)

Noticing the Invisible

121

(5)

Passion

126

(6)

Divine Discontent

132

(4)

Mortality Demands

136

(5)

Notes

141

(4)

About Jewish Lights

145

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The Dance of the Dolphin

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