Podcast Episodes

We Cannot Escape One Another - Rabbi Sharon Brous

Season 5785

Jacob tried to flee from his estranged brother. Did he fear more the battle, or the potential reconciliation? What happens when victimhood is built i…

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"Olive Days" - Author Jessica Elisheva Emerson with Rabbi Sharon Brous

Season 5785

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Saving Abigail - Author Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali with Rabbi Sharon Brous

Season 5785

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The Mouth of the Well - Rabbi Hannah Jensen

Season 5785

There is a teaching in Pirkei Avot that says that the mouth of the well was made during the first Shabbat of creation. We have long accepted it to be…

1 year, 10 months ago

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Bound and Unbound - Rabbi Morris Panitz

Season 5785

Who is Isaac? The man perpetually trapped by his father’s story, still bound to the altar, forever defined by the core trauma of his life. What will …

1 year, 10 months ago

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Let Us Be the Light Force - Rabbi Sharon Brous

Season 5785

After a life of heartache, two estranged brothers affirmed each other’s humanity,

and rediscovered their own. We, too, can make that choice. Let us p…

1 year, 10 months ago

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Love the Stranger - Rabbi Morris Panitz

Season 5785

Loving your neighbor, who is like you, whose identity you share, is not enough. You must stretch the boundaries of love to wrap into its embrace the …

1 year, 11 months ago

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Dreams Don’t Die - Rabbi Sharon Brous

Season 5785

Now we must learn the lesson our ancestor Avram learned:

one day our dreams will be realized. Just not today. And not tomorrow.

And maybe not for man…

1 year, 11 months ago

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Gifts Of The Flood - Rabbi Deborah Silver

Season 5785

There’s an eerie resonance between the Noah narrative and this week. What does Noah's Flood teach us about navigating chaos and coming once more to l…

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From Blame and Shame to Cherished Belonging - Rabbi Sharon Brous

Season 5785

After the death of a beloved child in our community to suicide, we reaffirm our commitment to combatting shame with tenderhearted love, to meeting on…

1 year, 11 months ago

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