CLAIM IT: Let's talk about desires... How about some Holy Chutzpah?

What would you love to create, receive, or BE? Big or small, claim it all!

So many leaders, artists, and creatives find themselves challenged with boldly claiming the REAL true desires, dreams, and ideas that move through them.

Let's talk about claiming desires and Holy Chutzpah:

If settling or obligation wasn't in your vocabulary - what would you choose to claim for yourself, your family, the world?

What if you allowed your fullest expression to flow out of you?

What would life be like if you said yes when you really meant yes and no when you really meant no? What energy might you free up?

Who and what do you believe staying small, closing off your desires, or not allowing yourself to live in your fullest expression is serving?

What if you asked Hashem for what you REALLY wanted?

What if you raised your standards to what you REALLY are available for?

What is Chutzpah? (according to the dictionary)

Chutzpah (pronounced HOOT-spah or KHOOT-spah) is a Yiddish word that means audacious boldness, nerve, or extreme self-confidence, often in a way that is surprising, shameless, or admirable depending on the context. The term comes from Hebrew (ḥuspāh) and entered English through Yiddish-speaking communities. Today it's commonly used in English to describe someone with remarkable boldness - either admired or criticized.

What is Holy Chutzpah?

Holy chutzpah is the courage to act from the truth of your soul rather than the fear of your ego.

Or even more simply:

Holy chutzpah is refusing to make yourself smaller than the mission, fire, and love God gave you.

Ordinary chutzpah is often driven by the need to prove.

Holy chutzpah is driven by the willingness to serve, to be a channel, a conduit, a receiver.

Holy chutzpah is saying: "I may not feel ready, but I trust the One who planted this desire in me more than I trust my fear."

Holy chutzpah is what happens when genuine humility and genuine courage meet. It's when one stops asking, "Who am I to do this?" and begins asking, "Who am I to withhold what I've been entrusted to bring, to envision, to desire?"

In Kabbalah, desire is not something to overcome - it is a part of the very substance of who we are. God created us as vessels with holy longing, because desire is what allows Divine light to enter the world.

Yet so many leaders hesitate to fully claim what they know they are here to build, create, and simply BE the frequency of.

Not because they lack vision, but because claiming requires holy chutzpah - the boldness and courage to take up the space your soul already occupies. To exist in your true size.

So we shrink. We soften our voice. We make our dreams more palatable. We wait for permission that has already been given. We close off.

A kind of redemption begins the moment we stop apologizing for the desires planted within us and fully claim them - knowing that whether or not it will come to be in form, that desire is holy.

We don't create desire - we give ourselves and each other permission to remember it.

And when a person finally claims that desire (to Be, receive, or create) without shame, they don't become more of themselves. They simply stop hiding who they have been all along.

That is holy chutzpah. That is the beginning of true leadership. That is Being The Possibility in the Universe.

Because our dreams and desires are not only about us, but rather the way life wants to move through us. We are the channel, not the Source, the vessel, not the Source.

The more we allow and get out of the way, the more we become a conduit for life, a steward of life energy.

The Baal Shem Tov taught that the desires placed within a person's soul are not random. They are clues and Invitations. They point toward the unique way our souls are meant to reveal God in this world. Yet so many leaders betray, withhold, or deny those desires in the name of humility. They call it being realistic. They call it waiting. They call it wisdom or even instinct. But often, it can be fear disguised as virtue.

Holy chutzpah is the courage to stop arguing with what your soul already knows. It is the willingness to trust that the vision stirring inside you was not placed there to tease you, but to guide you. It is choosing to believe that God doesn't make mistakes - that if He entrusted you with a calling, He also entrusted you with the capacity to carry it into the world.

Rav Kook says (I paraphrase) that true humility is standing in the true size you came here to be.

He speaks about the idea that the world doesn't need more leaders who play small in the name of false humility, but rather it needs leaders humble enough to become faithful to the desires God planted within them.

A teacher once taught me when I was a very little one that sometimes the holiest thing you can say is not, "Who am I?" but, "If not me, then who?"

That is holy chutzpah.

On Claiming:

If you would claim THAT life/thing/dream/idea - the one you haven't even fully admitted to yourself you desire- what kind of false humility, identity, or people-pleasing habit would you have to choose to surrender and let go of?

Some recent prayers I'd love to share with you:

God, show me my truest vitality.

God, show me the health, prosperity, and love that is really available for me and for all of us.

God, show me what is possible.

God, with you as my partner, I intend to commit and recommit as many times I need to:

Being aware that I am a soul having a human experience.

Embracing that human experience.

Feeling all of my feelings.

Remembering my feelings and thoughts are not who I AM.

Connecting to nature and my true nature.

That I am the Steward of my own energy.

To co-create each moment, in each moment with you.

To remember who I am, and that I am that I am, and to act, speak, and move from that place.

I expect to keep remembering when I forget, and expanding each time again.

In this week's Parsha (weekly Torah portion), the Daughters of Zelophehad - five biblical sisters who successfully petitioned Moses for a legal claim to their deceased father's land. Because Zelophehad died without sons, they stood to lose their family heritage in the Promised Land. Hashem affirmed their claim, establishing a historic precedent that daughters may inherit property. They claimed their estate and received it!

What would you love to claim?

Here's to some Holy Chutzpah. Boldness and Audacity ♥️

Get yourself some Holy Chutzpah.