On Second Thought Ezra

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  • In the Between: Four Movements Toward Becoming

    In the Between: Four Movements Toward Becoming

    By Ezra Nadav Author’s Preface These four poems emerged over time, each one finding me at a different stage of unlearning. They began as small acts of reflection — scraps of light in long stretches of quiet — and slowly became a conversation between solitude, surrender, and self-return. In the Between traces the cyclical movement…

  • The Power to Love: Courage to Know Pain

    The Power to Love: Courage to Know Pain

    A part of the ‘On Second Thought‘ series We often talk about love like it’s easy. Gentle. Healing. But the truth is — to love deeply is to be brave.Because real love doesn’t come without risk.It stretches us. Wounds us. Changes us. In my latest blog, I explore what it means to love not in…

  • I Am Not What I Know

    I Am Not What I Know

    A part of the ‘On Second Thought‘ series By: Ezra Nadav I’ve spent most of my life gathering knowledge, storing it, curating it, offering it to others in the hope it will matter. In classrooms and consultations, workshops and webinars, I’ve been praised for clarity, for insight, for translating the complex into the digestible. It’s…

  • Blessing and Legacy — Reckoning with the End: Part 5

    Blessing and Legacy — Reckoning with the End: Part 5

    Genesis as the Story of Every Human Life: Part 5 A part of the ‘On Second Thought‘ series By: Ezra Nadav Previously in the Series: In Part 1: Conception and Innocence, we began in Eden — a space of unearned goodness, pure being, and safety. It is a state we all begin in but cannot…