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Return the Key: Jewish Questions for EveryoneEpisode #11: "There where the heart has its inception"Julie talks with Rabbi Caryn Aviv of Denver’s Judaism Your Way. We read and discuss Nelly Sach’s poem “When Day Grows Empty,” talk about how our ancestors leave a “soul-trail” for us to follow, about Jewish Mysticism and Process Theology, about the philosophy of Judaism Your Way, and about Caryn’s book-in-progress Unlearning Jewish Anxiety. Caryn roots American Ashkenazi Jewish anxiety in the early 20th-century when many Jewish immigrants strived to assimilate to whiteness in a violently white-supremacist society, citing works by Jud Brewer, Eric Goldstein, Avery Gordon, and Resmaa Menakem. Caryn offers alternatives to the “persecuted-yet striving” “virtu...2024-10-111h 03
Jewish Meditation for EveryoneShabbat as a MeditationThe meditation featured in this episode was previously recorded by Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. Visit jewishspirituality.org to learn more about the Institute for Jewish Spirituality.
2024-01-1122 min
Making Change with your MoneyBreathing Together: an interview with Rabbi Sheila Peltz WeinbergRabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg served as a congregational rabbi for seventeen years and is well known as a teacher of mindfulness meditation to rabbis, Jewish professionals and lay people as a co-founder of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She's the author of several books , including Surprisingly Happy, God loves the Stranger and Let Us All Breathe Together, and has published widely on such topics as feminism, spiritual direction, parenting, social justice and mindfulness from a Jewish perspective.Raised in New York by storekeeper parents, Sheila's story is that of a spiritual seeker growing up in the '50...2023-11-1849 min
The Neshamah ProjectNeshamah Project Podcast Episode 24In this episode Rabbi Ben Newman reads a mindfulness-influenced translation of Psalm 27 from Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg.2022-09-0810 min
Open My Heart: Living Jewish PrayerSim ShalomThe Sages taught, "there is no blessing greater than peace", and for that reason they chose to conclude every prayer service, and many prayers, with peace. Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg leads us through a deep, prayerful reflection on the classic prayer Sim Shalom, Give us Peace.2020-12-0414 min
HashivenuS2 Ep. 2: Love Received, Love ExtendedThis wide-ranging conversation with noted teacher of spirituality Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg begins by recounting the influences that led her toward integrating meditation and yoga into Jewish spirituality. She then digs deeply into the essential interplay between spiritual experience (love received) and spiritually-rooted justice (love extended not only to neighbors, but to strangers, even in the face of trauma and fear.) We conclude by discussing of the transformative practice of spiritual direction.
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This podcast is produced by Reconstructing Judaism. Visit us at ReconstructingJudaism.org.Special Guest: Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg.2019-04-2829 min
SermonsEntering the Dark Cloud: A Chanukah TeachingRabbi David Ingber explores Rebbe Nachman's good advice for engaging obstacles that we encounter in our daily and spiritual lives. Learn more http://romemu.org
Many thanks to Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg who inspired this teaching in her essay in "Jewish Mysticism and the Spiritual Life: Classical Texts, Contemporary Reflections".2011-11-2859 min