Jewish Meditation for Everyone

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Pause in the midst of your busy day to renew your body, heart, mind and spirit with a Jewishly-framed mindfulness meditation from the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. In each episode, hosted by Rabbi Marc Margolius, an expert Jewish meditation instructor guides you through a brief teaching and meditation for relaxing your body, reconnecting with your authentic self, and connecting you with deep Jewish wisdom. Opening and closing music: “Baby Bird Niggun,” by Aly Halpert, used with permission.

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Showing Up, Moment by Moment

May 16 2024 25 mins

This episode of our podcast features a teaching and meditation by Alison Cohen, an outstanding mindfulness teacher. It’s a teaching and meditation she offered for Shevet: A Jewish Mindfulness Community for Young Adults, which offers a weekly Jewish mindfulness sit for anyone in their 20s and 30s, every Monday at 8 pm ET, 5 pm PT. This meditation focuses on the Divine quality of N

Entering a Month of Healing

May 13 2024 24 mins

This episode of our podcast features a teaching and meditation by Sarah Waxman of the At the Well Project. It’s a teaching and meditation for welcoming the new Hebrew month of Iyyar, the theme of which is healing. We hope you enjoy and find it meaningful.

Cultivating Compassion on Yom HaShoah

May 09 2024 27 mins

This episode features a teaching and meditation by Rabba Mira Neshama Weil which she offered on Yom HaShoah vehaGevurah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. It includes the traditional prayer for the deceased, El Malei Rachamim – God, full of Compassion. In the meditation, Rabba Mira invites us into the challenging spiritual practice of cultivating compassion for those with whom we may di

Sitting at the Front Lines, with Love and Strength

May 06 2024 25 mins

This episode of our podcast features a teaching and meditation by Rabbi Sara Brandes of The Awakened Body. It's a meditation for the second week of the Omer, the period between Passover and Shavuot. In this second week of the Omer, the spiritual theme is Gevurah -- Might or Strength. In these especially fraught times Rabbi Brandes invites us to situate ourselves at the "front lines

A Case of Mistaken Identity

Apr 22 2024 39 mins

This episode of our podcast features a teaching and meditation by Rabbi Sam Feinsmith of the IJS Core Faculty. It's the last in a series of four meditations on the theme of "From Constriction to Expanse," a series intended to help us prepare inwardly for Passover. Rabbi Feinsmith reminds us that we are usually suffering from a case of mistaken identity. We erroneously understand ou

Know Thyself

Apr 18 2024 36 mins

This episode of our podcast features a teaching and meditation by Rabbi Sam Feinsmith of the IJS Core Faculty. It's the first in a series of four meditations on the theme of "From Constriction to Expanse," a series intended to help us prepare inwardly for Passover. The Jewish mystical tradition teaches that beyond the tyranny and constriction of the ego lies our true nature: a spir

Breaking Open, Birthing Liberation

Apr 15 2024 27 mins

This episode of our podcast features a teaching and meditation by Rabba Dr. Mira Neshama Weil, of Neshimah in Israel. She notes that just like the experience of childbirth, all new beginnings and liberation often require of us blood, sweat, tears, and brokenness. She asks: What might be born out of the heartbreak so many of us feel these days? What destructive patterns are being sh

Seeing the World Anew

Apr 11 2024 26 mins

This episode of our podcast features a teaching and meditation by Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein of Applied Jewish Spirituality. It's a teaching he offered just as Rosh Hodesh Nisan, the new month of Nisan, was arriving in Israel. The appearance of the first sliver of the New Moon of Nisan — the first month of the year for the Jewish people — is an especially auspicious momen

Holding the Cup of Joy and the Cup of Tears

Apr 08 2024 24 mins

This episode of our podcast features a teaching and meditation by Rabbi Sara Brandes of The Awakened Body in Israel. Rabbi Brandes invites us to hold in our imagination two cups from the Passover Seder: the Kiddush cup, representing goodness and blessing, and the cup of Miriam, a cup filled with water inspired by Miriam's well. Rabbi Brandes describes how her family combines the tr

God Is ...This

Apr 04 2024 24 mins

This episode of our podcast features a teaching and meditation by Rabbi Dr. Jenny Solomon of Beth Meyer Synagogue in Raleigh, North Carolina. Rabbi Solomon offers a simple but deep practice based on a teaching from the Jewish mystical tradition that one of the names for the Divine is simply "zot," the Hebrew word which means "this." We can connect with the sacred simply by bringing