In this episode, I sit with Parshat Beshalach and share what its stories are teaching me about fear, trust, and timing. I reflect on what happens when faith collapses under pressure, how silence can be either oppression or power, and why learning when not to react is a form of spiritual maturity.

I speak about miracles that only arrive after movement, the difference between prayer and action, and what it means to walk forward before the path is clear. I explore the feminine capacity to hold discomfort, the danger of ignoring fear, and how trust is rebuilt one day at a time through daily dependence, like the manna in the desert.

I end with a personal reflection on vulnerability as a doorway to miracles, how God often speaks through people, and what it means to lead with an open heart even when certainty is absent.

Lea

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In this episode of More to the Story, I learn Parshas Bo and reflect on what happens when redemption finally turns from concept into movement. We walk through the last of the plagues and the first of the mitzvos, especially sanctifying the moon and Korban Pesach - the moment we leave Egypt with our families and reclaim our voice.

But Bo also reads like an inner map: redemption begins when we’re willing to face Pharaoh, the darkest chamber we’ve avoided, and say yes to G-d before we feel clean, ready, or worthy. I share what it means to move beyond “trust” as an idea and begin living with G-d as a felt reality by reclaiming our senses, clearing what numbs us, and letting the soul come fully home in the body.

Lea

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In this episode I reflect on the story of the plagues, not as history but as an inner map. Egypt is not only a place we once left, it is a state of constriction that lives inside us. Va’eira is the moment when redemption begins to touch what has been numb, defended, or frozen.

I explore how the plagues are not random punishments, but precise corrections to a worldview that separates G-d from nature, spirit from body, masculine from feminine. Each plague confronts a different form of coldness, indifference, denial, misplaced passion, and invites warmth, presence, and responsibility back into the system.

Va’eira teaches that healing does not begin by escaping the physical world, but by allowing divinity to enter it. Redemption starts when we stop outsourcing truth, stop blaming ourselves, and become a clear portal for what wants to move through us.

Lea

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