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This Jewish Life is Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe’s flagship podcast. Since its founding in January of 2013, This Jewish Life has featured a delightful potpourri of podcast episodes on a myriad of Jewish subjects. In its current incarnation, the podcast focuses on exploring the deeper elements of Jewish life and philosophy. In each episode our objective is to go a bit deeper into subjects that we may be familiar with, to plumb the depths and uncover the essence of the beauty and sublimity of Jewish lif ...
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A Jewish Life is a new podcast exploring Jewish identity and community life through the diverse stories of individuals; leaders, activists, creative thinkers, parents, grandparents, rebels, explorers and anyone with a story to tell.
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Romemu is a welcoming, experiential, irreverently pious, intergenerational Jewish community that elevates and transforms individuals and communities into more compassionate human beings. Committed to powerful prayer and transformative spiritual practices, Romemu attempts to engage the heart, mind and body in everything we do, helping us to foster greater levels of compassion. We believe that Judaism offers spiritual seekers and skeptics alike a path that celebrates our wholeness and provides ...
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The Book of Life is an interview-format podcast about Jewish kidlit, mostly, with occasional coverage of Jewish YA/adult books, music, film and web, established in December 2005. Host: Heidi Rabinowitz Sponsors: Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel of Boca Raton, Florida & the Association of Jewish Libraries
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In Jewish Inspiration for Living a Moral & Spiritual Life, Valley Beit Midrash's President and Dean – Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz – explores how Torah and Jewish ethics can relate to everyday life. This channel is home to all of Rabbi Shmuly’s class series, including: • 39 Ways to Repair the World (’20-’21) • 40 Greatest Debates in Jewish History (’21-’22) • Pearls of Jewish Wisdom on Living with Kindness (’22-’23) • 40 Great Philosophers and What They Mean for Judaism (’23-’24) Listen to VB ...
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Rabbi Gary Derechinsky leads this enlightening and fascinating study of “The Life of Messiah from a Jewish Perspective”. Based upon the seminal work of Messianic Jewish scholar, Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, this study places Yeshua (Jesus) in His proper Jewish context as the long-awaited King of the Jews and Savior of the world. Yeshua was born into a Jewish household in a Jewish community. As a boy in Nazareth, He attended a Jewish synagogue where He memorized the Jewish Scriptures. Growing in ...
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Journey with me into the fertile forest of Jewish philosophy and mysticism! I have always loved studying Jewish wisdom, especially the more mystical side, yet I am challenging myself in this podcast to apply those texts to everyday life. I'd like to give you a window into my spiritual struggles to actually live out these ideas and concepts. Hopefully by sharing and learning with you, we can all grow together to live a more meaningful life. I am also the spiritual leader of Temple Sinai in Mi ...
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The Torah has an all-encompassing vision for mankind in which every person, Jew, and gentile, has a role to play. The Torah’s ideal role for the non-Jew is that of the Noahide (in Hebrew, the Ben Noach, Child of Noah). This role is defined by a large body of halacha (law) called the Sheva Mitzvos Bnei Noach, the Seven Commandments of the Children of Noah. More and more non-Jews have turned to the ancient wisdom of the Torah and its sages for guidance as to what God expects from them. Unfortu ...
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I promise that in the fullness of time I will, one day, give a sermon that is not about the Boston Celtics. But today is not that day. We have to process Game 7. What happened on the court Monday night was not just a sad basketball story, if you happen to be a Celtics fan. It was also a confusing, perplexing human story. How do we understand our te…
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SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2023/06/pride-month-special-with-aj-sass.html It's June and that means LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the perfect time to talk to author A.J. Sass. Andrew Sass is known for writing middle grade books featuring respectful portrayals of trans and nonbinary characters, with neurodivergent and casual Jewish representat…
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The Sinai Revelation is the most significant event in all of human history: God revealed Himself to the entire Jewish people, He spoke to them, He gave them the Torah, and they lived. This day is revisited every single year on the festival of Shavuos. Our objective on this day is to renew our vows with God and to re-accept His holy Torah. But how d…
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In each episode of “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism,” Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz (President and Dean of Valley Beit Midrash) explores influential philosophers and how their teachings and beliefs relate to Jewish values and traditions. You can also listen to “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism” on your preferred p…
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Why do we do what we do as Jews? What is a mitzvah? Is it a nice thing to do, a commandment, or a cultural folkway of the Jewish people? If we don't believe in a commanding God, can we believe in commandment? If not, how can Judaism make any demands upon us? And if we do not allow our faith to make demands upon us, is it too thin and weak to be of …
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Rabbi Samuel Chiel, of blessed memory, used to say: the Jewish people are not superstitious…kenahorah. Recently I was an eyewitness to the birth, the thriving, and the death of a superstition…kenahora. It happened in our evening minyan in the Gann Chapel, and it concerned the seating arrangement of two of our evening minyan regulars, Grant Finkel a…
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This Shabbat is the second day of Shavuot—a good time to think about our relationship to the Torah as a source of law (halakhah) that is supposed to shape how we live every day. Problem: For most of us, it doesn’t. The Torah says: keep kosher. Many of us don’t. The Torah says: observe Shabbat. For many of us, Saturday is not Shabbat but another wee…
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Shavuos is the Festival that marks the day of the giving of the Torah. More than 3300 years ago, our nation coalesced around Mount Sinai and we experienced some thing that no other nation has ever experienced: the Almighty spoke to us as a nation and we lived to tell the tale. We heard the 10 Commandments from God and from Moshe and our nation was …
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Shira and I spent the last two weeks of December at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem being with our father. While attending to a loved one in these circumstances is obviously painful, at the same time, we marveled at how day-to-day life at Hadassah Hospital felt not only like Israel at its best, but almost like the fulfillment of prophetic visions of…
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In each episode of “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism,” Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz (President and Dean of Valley Beit Midrash) explores influential philosophers and how their teachings and beliefs relate to Jewish values and traditions. You can also listen to “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism” on your preferred p…
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Dan is a board member of Repair the World (Jewish engagement through service) and the Friends of the Arava Institute (bringing Arabs and Jews together in Israel to address environmental and climate issues). He is a long-time member of Temple Emanuel and has, over the years, volunteered with other Jewish organizations, including Combined Jewish Phil…
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How do we think about Mother’s Day when our own mother has passed away? Even if we are blessed to have our mothers alive, how do we think about lots of joyful moments in the spring season when that joy belongs to other people, but not to us? How do we dance at somebody else’s adult child’s wedding when our own adult child is still looking? How do w…
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In each episode of “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism,” Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz (President and Dean of Valley Beit Midrash) explores influential philosophers and how their teachings and beliefs relate to Jewish values and traditions. You can also listen to “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism” on your preferred p…
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If you are a Boston sports fan, two words inspire pathos: Boston Bruins. This past regular season, the Bruins enjoyed not just a successful season, but a historically successful season. The National Hockey League, NHL, is 106 years old. In the long history of the league, this year’s Bruins set the record for most wins in a season. They set the reco…
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When the history of twentieth-century Jewry is written, I believe that one of the most important, impactful, influential thinkers will be Rabbi Harold Kushner, who was laid to his eternal rest this past Monday. I do not know of a rabbi whose teaching had a broader reach or a bigger impact. It is not just that his books sold millions of copies. Not …
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SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2023/05/a-sky-full-of-song.html When I read Susan Lynn Meyer's middle grade novel, A Sky Full of Song, I was swept away by her descriptions of the North Dakota prairie and really touched by the characters' struggles with prejudice, assimilation, and identity. This story is one of those in which the speci…
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In each episode of “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism,” Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz (President and Dean of Valley Beit Midrash) explores influential philosophers and how their teachings and beliefs relate to Jewish values and traditions. You can also listen to “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism” on your preferred p…
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Our forefather Abraham forged a covenant with God: God shows him to be the forefather of the Jewish people, which includes all sorts of Rights and responsibilities. For one, Abraham’s descendants were condemned to be enslaved for 400 years. On the brighter side, the nation became recipients of the Almighty’s Torah and Mitzvos. The nation also recei…
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In each episode of “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism,” Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz (President and Dean of Valley Beit Midrash) explores influential philosophers and how their teachings and beliefs relate to Jewish values and traditions. You can also listen to “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism” on your preferred p…
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For some reason--I don’t know why it happens, I just know that it happens--tensions seem to rise in a family before a big milestone or family simcha. People tend to argue. To bicker. To get into negative energy patterns. The classic example of weird negative energy preceding what should be a happy family time is a wedding. If you have ever planned …
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When I was home for Thanksgiving this year, my mom and I were going through some old boxes at the bottom of a closet when we came across a bag of colorful fabrics. “What’s this?” I asked my mom. With a funny look on her face, my mom took the bag and started looking through it. “This is the quilt I was going to make you when you were a baby.” Appare…
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For those of you hearty enough to come to shul on the seventh day of Pesach, I want to share with you a love story—in fact a Pesach double love story. But to appreciate this double love story, we need first to talk about halakha, Jewish law. When was the last time that happened in a sermon? The Torah commands us to have no chametz in our possession…
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In each episode of “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism,” Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz (President and Dean of Valley Beit Midrash) explores influential philosophers and how their teachings and beliefs relate to Jewish values and traditions. You can also listen to “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism” on your preferred p…
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I recently heard a teaching that I experienced as an epiphany. The context was the Spark mission to Israel to celebrate its 75th anniversary leaving in a few weeks. Three hundred people from Greater Jewish Boston are going on nine buses. Marc Baker, the CEO of CJP, was speaking to the folks who were leading each of these buses. He shared that when …
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Lhakpa Sherpa grew up impoverished in the shadow of Mount Everest. Her father worked as a shepherd and her mother raised her along with her ten siblings. They were dirt poor. So poor that they couldn’t afford to buy shoes for the children, let alone to send Lhakpa to school. Instead, she spent her days wandering barefoot through the mountains. Ever…
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In each episode of “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism,” Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz (President and Dean of Valley Beit Midrash) explores influential philosophers and how their teachings and beliefs relate to Jewish values and traditions. You can also listen to “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism” on your preferred p…
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The Pesach Haggadah guides us through the Seder night and the story of the Exodus. But as is always true in our religion, there are secrets and mysteries lurking beneath the surface. To plumb the esoteric depths of the Haggadah we invited back to the podcast the legend himself, Rabbi Shmuly Botnick. In this podcast you will be treated to an ingenio…
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SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-walk-on-jewish-side.html Jewish identity can be complicated, especially for people who come from a mixed background. We are starting to see this reality acknowledged in middle grade and young adult fiction, with characters who are working to figure out what being Jewish means to them, or who ar…
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Israel. The images of civil unrest playing out in Israel this past Monday are images we never thought we would see. Demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of Israelis; counter demonstrations; the airport closed; IDF soldiers and reservists and pilots refusing to serve; general strikes; universities closing; ambassadors resigning; a high government…
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” - William Faulkner Faulkner’s famous quotation underlies all of Rachel Korazim’s sessions in this series about the crisis in Israel today. To understand the push for reform, and the protests against reform, we went back to the Altalena incident in 1948 (March 18 Talmud class) and to what Arabs in Israel…
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In each episode of “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism,” Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz (President and Dean of Valley Beit Midrash) explores influential philosophers and how their teachings and beliefs relate to Jewish values and traditions. You can also listen to “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism” on your preferred p…
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The Festival of Pesach is upon us. For seven days we will eat Matzah and avoid any traces of chometz. We will gather together with our families around the Seder table and recount the story of the Exodus, retelling and reliving the founding episode of our Nation. In an effort to get in the mode of Pesach, I got together with some of my TORCH colleag…
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How can you make sure to have the most meaningful and impactful Passover? Is it about preparation? The extent to which you clean out every cabinet and kasher your kitchen? Is it about the Seder itself—the Haggadah you choose and the activities you plan for the Seder? In the spring of 2014, I was in my second year of rabbinical school and got a gig …
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Talk to any Israeli, talk to any American who has recently been to Israel, and the words one hears are: depressing, very concerning, unprecedented, I’m afraid. I don’t know how this ends. How did we get here? Where does this story begin? Last week, Rachel Korazim, our Israeli teacher of Israeli poetry, made a point that is so simple, so profound, a…
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In each episode of “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism,” Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz (President and Dean of Valley Beit Midrash) explores influential philosophers and how their teachings and beliefs relate to Jewish values and traditions. You can also listen to “40 Great Philosophers & What They Mean for Judaism” on your preferred p…
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I am not proud of it, but one day while on a recent long flight, to make the time pass, I found myself reading a rom com, total beach reading. There were so many other worthier things I could have read. I could have read an analysis of the impasse on judicial reform in Israel. Or I could have done daf yomi, the study of a daily page of Talmud. Or w…
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The impasse over judicial reform in Israel continues to be concerning and unresolved. Protests continue. Conversations have not resulted in resolution. Positions are hardening. The compromise which President Herzog implored both sides to work towards remains elusive. Talk to Israelis—their morale is low. They are troubled. “We hope we get there”—to…
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Stay Connected with Valley Beit Midrash: • Website: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/ • Donate: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/donate • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ValleyBeitMidrash • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiLYSyEus7DcWMhyEZ_CQFQ Follow Rabbi Shmuly: • https://www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz This channel is hom…
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I recently heard a podcast featuring Andy Stanley--have I mentioned him before? He is a pastor in Atlanta--and his wife Sandra, and they were discussing a most compelling question: How do we parent our children so that when they grow up and grow out, they want to spend time with their parents, and with one another, even when they don’t have to? If …
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When I was in Jerusalem last week sitting shiva for our father, after folks gave their condolences and shared their memories, they would ask me for my take on Israel. The conversation was sobering, making me feel naïve and disconnected from the real Israel that is. Me: In Greater Jewish Boston, we are so excited to be marking Israel at 75. A big co…
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Stay Connected with Valley Beit Midrash: • Website: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/ • Donate: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/donate • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ValleyBeitMidrash • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiLYSyEus7DcWMhyEZ_CQFQ Follow Rabbi Shmuly: • https://www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz This channel is hom…
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“When the month of Adar commences, we increase joy.” This oft-recited Talmudic dictum captures the emotion of this month. Adar is a time of joy due to the Purim miracles. It is also associated with, we discover in this belated month-theme podcast with the great Rabbi Shmuly Botnick, fish, the tribe of Naftali, techeiles, the Ark, the letter Nun in …
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As a child, I reveled in the heroism of Mordechai. I admired him for his gumption, for the way he stood up to Haman and never betrayed his values--even when his very life was at stake. I was taught to see Mordechai as a capable and wise civil servant, as a mensch who took in his orphaned niece and loved her like his own, and as a visionary who empo…
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In preparation for the upcoming festival of Purim, my colleagues and I gathered together for a roundtable discussion about the power and meaning of the day. It is a joyous day of celebration and revelry, but when we examine it deeply, we discover it is a day of great, transformative, spiritual power. Elevate your Purim with your friends at TORCH by…
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SHOW NOTES: https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2023/02/shohams-bangle.html Sarah Sassoon's debut picture book Shoham's Bangle (Kar-Ben) was named a 2023 Sydney Taylor Notable Book by the Association of Jewish Libraries. Based on Sarah's family history, it's the story of a Jewish family's escape from Iraq to Israel, and a rare example of Mizrahi repre…
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