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Sounds of SAND#76 Land, Lineage & Resisting Genocide"This is a spiritual test, this is a spiritual war, as much as it is a material one. People say, ‘As above, so below.’ How we are interfacing with the physical realities of this moment, the ways that we are leveraging our daily energy are either making us complicit with life's desecration or helping us to affirm life and the spirit of resistance. The battle that we are in is right now!"— Layla K. Feghali on the violence in Gaza, Sounds of SAND, Ep. #76We are now over four months into a worsening genocide in Gaza — with ove...
2024-03-141h 31
Hadar's Web"I Am What Was Taken From Me": Unlearning Colonization and Embodying Resistance with Ariella Aïsha AzoulayThis episode was recorded on March 23, 2023 and is in collaboration with Jewish Ancestral Healing and the Sarah & Hajar Series.
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is an author, curator of anti-colonial archives, film essayist, and theorist of photography. She is a professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature at Brown University. She is of Algerian and Palestinian descent and identifies as a Muslim Jew, which she powerfully unpacks in her article Unlearning Our Settler Colonial Tongues. Azoulay recently completed a children story, Gold Threads, based on an early 20th century strike led by jewelers and gold spinners, a...
2024-03-061h 15
Be Here Now NetworkRumi and the Path of Radical Love with Taya Mâ & Omid Safi – Sufi Heart Podcast Ep. 28In this interview from the 2023 Mystics Summit, Omid Safi joins Taya Ma for a conversation about Rumi, his main teachings, and how he’s situated on the wider Path of Radical Love.
This interview is part of the 2023 Mystics Summit a free online event. For more information, please visit mysticssummit.com. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved.
“Approach the teachings of the Path of Love, or of Islam, or of Sufism, or whatever tradition it is that draws you closer to God, in an interactive model. Don’t look at it purely and simply as rec...
2023-08-0756 min
Sufi Heart with Omid SafiEp. 28 – Rumi and the Path of Radical Love with Taya MâIn this interview from the 2023 Mystics Summit, Omid Safi joins Taya Ma for a conversation about Rumi, his main teachings, and how he’s situated on the wider Path of Radical Love.This interview is part of the 2023 Mystics Summit a free online event. For more information, please visit mysticssummit.com. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved.In this episode, Omid Safi and Taya Mâ talk about:Rumi’s background and why his real legacy is more than just his poetry, it’s his beingHow the Path of Radical...
2023-08-0756 min
Jewish Ancestral Healing PodcastShavuot Siyum: The Journey Toward CompletionTaya Mâ Shere welcomes us into Season 3, Shavuot Siyum.
2023-05-2523 min
Dreaming the World to ComeNisan with Mazal Masoud EtedgiMazal Masoud Etedgi (they/them/theirs) is a trans/non-binary artist, arab/mizrahi/amazigh jew, first-gen, spoonie/chronically ill person, herbalist, Drama Therapist, clown, and cultural organizer. Maz utilizes imagination, play, and ritual as tools for liberation, healing and connection. You can find their herbal medicine apothecary at bsamimapothecary.com and @bsamim.apothecary
Special extra-long episode in honor of Passover!
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2023-03-301h 08
Dreaming the World to ComeTishrei with Lukaza Branfman-VerissimoIn this kick-off episode, our guest is Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, contributor for the month of Tishrei. Lukaza (They/She) is an artist, activist, educator, storyteller & curator who is based between Ohlone Land [Oakland, CA] and Powhatan Land [Richmond,VA]. Their work has been exhibited/performed at museums, galleries, homes and in the streets. Lukaza has their BFA from California College of the Arts and MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. www.lukazabranfmanverissimo.com
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2022-09-2047 min
JewitchesThe Magic of Dreams with Rabbi Jill HammerAs long as we have been dreaming, we have been wondering what they could mean. Today we dive into dream divination, interpretation, and dream work with incredible guest, Rabbi Jill Hammer, PHD. Co-founder of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute and the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion, her most recent books are Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams and Return to the Place: The Magic, Meditation, and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah. You may also know her from her book with Taya Shere: The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership....
2022-06-081h 19
Jewish Ancestral Healing PodcastThe Blessing of Being Welcomed Home with Taya Mâ ShereTaya Mâ Shere welcomes us into season 2, reflecting on ways ancestors shape our identity, offering insight into the complexities of longing and belonging and foreshadowing the Jewish Ancestral Healing season to come.
2021-11-0328 min
Jewish Ancestral HealingThe Blessing of Being Welcomed Home with Taya Mâ ShereTaya Mâ Shere welcomes us into season 2, reflecting on ways ancestors shape our identity, offering insight into the complexities of longing and belonging and foreshadowing the Jewish Ancestral Healing season to come.
2021-11-0328 min
Jewish Ancestral HealingAmidst the Blessing of the Ancestors w/ Taya Mâ ShereJewish Ancestral Healing host Taya Mâ Shere welcomes us to this podcast portal, in which she interviews spiritual leaders, artists, activists and visionaries on their journeys of ancestral healing, embracing resilience, and ancestor reverence practices rooted in Jewish traditions and counter-oppressive devotion. In our first episode, Amidst the Blessing of the Ancestors, Taya Mâ sets the context and tone for this offering, and shares how she came to the path of Jewish Ancestral Healing and how she orients in the work. Taya Mâ invites us into the possibility of rooting in positive resource in the realms of ancestral connection and...
2020-10-0153 min
Jewish Ancestral Healing PodcastAmidst the Blessing of the Ancestors w/ Taya Mâ ShereJewish Ancestral Healing host Taya Mâ Shere welcomes us to this podcast portal, in which she interviews spiritual leaders, artists, activists and visionaries on their journeys of ancestral healing, embracing resilience, and ancestor reverence practices rooted in Jewish traditions and counter-oppressive devotion. In our first episode, Amidst the Blessing of the Ancestors, Taya Mâ sets the context and tone for this offering, and shares how she came to the path of Jewish Ancestral Healing and how she orients in the work. Taya Mâ invites us into the possibility of rooting in positive resource in the realms of ancestral connection and...
2020-10-0153 min
Judaism UnboundEpisode 240: Hebrew Priestesses - Jill Hammer, Taya ShereJill Hammer and Taya Shere, co-founders of Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, join Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg for a conversation about the old, the new, and the ways in which Kohenet's work blurs the line between the two.This episode is the third in a series of episodes exploring the history, and contemporary leadership, of America's Jewish women.If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!To access shownotes for this episode, click here.
2020-09-1850 min
Salad ClubEpisode 9 / Kohenet / Annie MatanWhen I met Annie and found out she was a Jewish Priestess, I had to find out more.
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Book: The Hebrew Priestess by Rabbi Jill Hammer and Taya Shere
2019-04-1720 min
Bespoken Bones PodcastRace and racism in ancestral healing panel discussionIn this episode, amazing tenders of culture and ancestral healing M'kali-Hashiki, Langston Kahn, and Taya Shere discuss how race and racism intersect with the work of ancestral healing.
2019-02-0352 min
LADYPARTS: taking a wide view on women's healthBleeding RoomNo-one wants to be in pain. In previous episodes we’ve discussed ways to help alleviate menstrual pain with medication, acupressure, herbs, and even surgery. But aside from not being in pain, if you bleed, when you bleed, what do you want?
In this episode, we explore the concept of creating a special place in time and space for menstruation. Sometimes this happens by choice, as in the practice of “conscious menstruation,” and sometimes it’s enforced, as under cultural or religious taboos. What can we learn from taking a step back, turning away, in whatever small way, fro...
2018-12-1748 min
LADYPARTS: taking a wide view on women's healthBleeding RoomNo-one wants to be in pain. In previous episodes we’ve discussed ways to help alleviate menstrual pain with medication, acupressure, herbs, and even surgery. But aside from not being in pain, if you bleed, when you bleed, what do you want?In this episode, we explore the concept of creating a special place in time and space for menstruation. Sometimes this happens by choice, as in the practice of “conscious menstruation,” and sometimes it’s enforced, as under cultural or religious taboos. What can we learn from taking a step back, turning away, in whatever small way, fro...
2018-12-1748 min
Theosophia Podcast22.1 Rabbi Jill HammerRabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, is the co-founder of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, a program that trains women in embodied, earth-based, feminist Jewish spiritual leadership. She is also the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion, a pluralistic seminary for rabbis, cantors, and educators. She is the author of eight books, including Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women, The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for all Seasons, The Omer Calendar of Biblical Women, The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and N...
2018-10-2132 minBespoken Bones PodcastTrauma as call to prayerTaya Shere waxes poetic on healing Jewish ancestral healing, participating in an embodied, holy life, and bliss as the prayer.
2017-12-0437 min
Voices of the Sacred FeminineHebrew Priestess Institute w/ Taya Shere and Rabbi Jill HammerCo-founders of Kohenet, the Hebrew Priestess Institute, Rabbi Jill Hammer and author/musician Taya Shere share with listeners their new initiative to train Jewish women in the art of becoming a priestess. We'll discuss their training and ordination of women and the work of their progressive synagogue.
2014-01-161h 25