Rabbi Alon C Ferency

This meditation journeys from constriction to compassion. We begin in the inner posture of Sodom—guarded, withholding, fearful of scarcity. Like Lot retreating to Zoar, we notice our own impulse to shrink from relationship, to seek safety in smallness. With the breath, we soften that stance, opening toward the expansiveness embodied by Abraham—who, the rabbis teach, carried the whole world in his heart. We feel the spaciousness of that heart: generous, hospitable, alive with care. From this place of openness, we cultivate moral courage—the readiness to speak, to intercede, to stand for justice as Abraham did before God. The practice closes in stillness, holding both vulnerability and strength: the movement from self-protection to sacred advocacy, from narrowness to love that shelters others within it.