Chayei Sarah: Life or Death?

I find it fascinating how the Torah marks one’s passing not just by saying they died, but that they lived. 

There’s something deeply cyclical expressed in the interchanging of life and death in the same context.

 Life and death aren't opposites.

They're one movement.

Like one cycle, waxing and waning.

What’s a cycle, really? It’s just a unit of time. A monthly cycle, a yearly cycle, a cycle of seasons, a life cycle. The whole 6,000 years of creation is considered “but one moon cycle.”

The cycle is the broad vision. The container that holds both life and death. Ebb and flow. Renewal and release. 

When we live this rhythm in our body – on a basic physical level – we connect with something so much greater beyond. This (and so much more) is what we explored this week in The Pulse of Womanhood.

And the cycle continues. 

 וְזָרַח הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ וּבָא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ

The sun rises and the sun sets.

And then rises again. 

And so was the life of Sarah.

When her son Yitzchak, brought his new wife, Rivka, into his mother’s tent, the three hallmarks of Sarah’s life returned – the light of her candles from Shabbos to Shabbos, the freshness of her bread, and the cloud of protection hovering above her tent.

Rivka revived something that had died with her predecessor.

There was the waning and death.

Followed by rebirth and renewal.

As always.

Nothing real is ever lost.

Every contraction births expansion.
Every ending nourishes a beginning.
Every darkness prepares the next glow of light.

When we honor the cycle within us, we stop fighting life. We start living it.

It’s the wisdom our bodies have known all along.

We’re just learning to listen.

Registration for Embodied officially opens next week.

It’s the space where this wisdom doesn’t just stay poetic or conceptual – it becomes your lived, daily rhythm.
Where the cycle becomes your anchor, your clarity, your guide.

Embodied is where you begin living this work from the inside out.

I can’t wait to see you reclaim your womanhood at the root.