Ep. 2 — Kotzer Ruach: When Breath Becomes Short
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Ep. 2 — Kotzer Ruach: When Breath Becomes Short
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What happens when you're too exhausted to receive good news? When even hope feels like a burden you can't carry?
Drawing from the Hebrew concept of kotzer ruach (shortness of breath) in the Book of Exodus, this episode examines spiritual constriction—the condition where breath becomes too short to receive what is being offered. This is not moral failure. It is exhaustion named honestly.
In mystical and contemplative tradition, spiritual dryness often manifests as physical constriction—a tightness in the chest, a shortness of breath, an inability to expand. This episode explores that experience without blame, without judgment, and without rushing toward resolution.
Capacity precedes response. Formation begins not with effort, but with the acknowledgment that breath has become short—and that this, too, is part of the journey.
Topics: spiritual exhaustion, spiritual dryness, kotzer ruach, desert spirituality, contemplative practice, spiritual formation, breath prayer, Exodus, Jewish mysticism