"Exercises in Expanding Consciousness": Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses on Parshat Balak, 5782

Rabbi Cohler-Esses' sermon addressed the Kabbalistic notion of small mind and large mind -- "mochin de-katnut and mochin de-gadlut" -- and shows how Bilaam, the Ancient Near Eastern prophet, is given lessons by his donkey, by God, and by the wilderness about what it means to make the shift from a narrow to a more expansive consciousness.