Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is the founder and spiritual leader of Lab/Shul in Manhattan.
Amichai Lau-Lavie
By Amichai Lau-Lavie
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Community Prepent Day 30: Listen to the Flow
Monday 10/03/16 Tishrei 1 5777 Dear Water, On this first day of the new year we head out of our sanctuaries and line up on your shores, breadcrumbs offered to your waves. We release our past and our regrets and toss away as much guilt as possible with each crumb of nourishment. The Tashlich custom…
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Community Prepent Day 29: Letting Go and Loving Fully
Sunday 10/02/16 Elul 29 5776 Dear Beloved, Just as 2016 started I began to work with Laurie, my helpful life coach, who taught me to cut through the negative voices and focus on my big dreams for the life I want to live. One of the dreams that she had me write out was about…
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Community Prepent Day 27+28: In Search of Peace and Pleasure
Friday 9/30/16 Elul 27 5776 Today, we are publishing a double love letter for your double super Sabbath souls. Wishing you a restful, peaceful, and love-ful Sabbath. Be back on Sunday! Dear Persistent and Tired Peacemakers, Shimon Peres failed to make it happen but who knows how long it will take for grand visions like…
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Community Prepent Day 26: What Does it Really Mean to Pray?
Thursday 9/29/16 Elul 26 5776 Dear Whomever is In Charge, There was this one night in my backyard six or seven months ago, in deep despair, no poetry or meditation helping to bring me the light of simple joy. I got on my knees and lost all mind or pride and asked in tears, of…
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Community Prepent Day 25: How to Handle Conflict
Wednesday 9/28/16 Elul 25 5776 Dear Conflict, There are ways to debate our different needs and ways of life and there are ways in which debates become, so often needlessly, a conflict. On this 25th day of Elul and Prepent, the day on which, it’s said, the the world was created (humans come on day…
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Community Prepent Day 24: The Virtue of Hope
Tuesday 9/27/16 Elul 24 5776 Dear Hope, I invoke you often – “hope you are well, and I hope to see you again..” and even as I mean it, am I deeply powered by your inner honest code of highest hope? Or just cliche-ing? Do I still embody your virtue when I get sucked into…
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Community Prepent Day 23: The King in the Fields
Monday 9/26/16 Elul 23 5776 Dear Field, There is a king whose palace is open all days of the year to receive his subjects and their petitions, but the process is complicated and the lines are long and not everybody gets to see His Majesty. One month out of the year the king leaves the…
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Community Prepent Day 22: An Element of Fun
Sunday 9/25/16 Elul 22 5776 Dear Discipline, It’s a slippery slope: I stay up late, wake up late, miss my morning writing, meditation, then catch up for the rest of the day, tired, and something is missing. Self discipline, when calm and when chaotic, is what helps me ground the most. And yet so much…
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