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Enjoy this Sukkot guided visualization led by Julie Potiker for the Balanced Mind Meditation Center. Sukkot, also known as the Feast of the Tabernacles, is a week long Jewish holiday. The meditation ends with the poem "Sukkot: The Heart of the Sukkah", by Lesli Koppelman Ross.

 

Sukkot: The Heart of the Sukkah

let the walls of my heart be easily moved as the walls of the Sukkah that sway in the wind

let the roof of my heart be porous to tears as the roof of the Sukkah that lets in the rain

let the space in my heart be open to guests as to Ushpizin who pass through each night

let the beat of my heart be a vital reminder that life here is transient – a temporary dwelling

let the walls, left unsealed, and the roof, with its lattice, frame the cracks that will let in the light

 

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