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  • Until We Meet Again: The Jewish Art of Sacred Goodbyes

    Until We Meet Again: The Jewish Art of Sacred Goodbyes
    Jun 12 2025
    For this, the final episode of this podcast, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores the Jewish approach to goodbyes, revealing how Hebrew farewells like lehitra'ot ("until we meet again") and hadran alach ("I will return to you") express hope for reunion rather than finality. Reflecting on traditional blessings recited when seeing someone after a long separation, she notes that how Jewish tradition doesn't take reunions for granted. Join her for a short meditation on honoring both the difficulty of parting and the sacred nature of return.
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    27 min
  • The Wheat Will Grow Again

    The Wheat Will Grow Again
    Jun 5 2025
    Join Rabbi Angela Buchdahl for a short teaching and meditation for finding hope amidst tragedy. In this episode, she weaves together the story of a young Israeli scientist, Zechariah Haber, who was killed in the current war while researching crop resilience, and "The Wheat Grows Again," a song that emerged from devastating losses in Israel in 1973. The teaching explores how Haber's doctoral thesis, completed posthumously by his friend and beginning with lyrics about wheat growing again after loss, offers a metaphor for choosing smaller, sustainable solutions over seeking perfect answers. Join Rabbi Buchdahl for a short practice for developing resilience that comes by nurturing what grows naturally and the legacy we inherit.
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    27 min
  • Lift Up the Head of Every Person

    Lift Up the Head of Every Person
    May 29 2025
    In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores why Jewish tradition forbids directly counting people, requiring census-taking through numbering coins instead of individuals. She connects this ancient wisdom to modern dehumanization, explaining how the the Torah's instructions to "lift up the heads" means to see each person's unique gifts rather than as a number. Join her for a short guided meditation for recognizing the sacred worth of every soul — including our own.
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    27 min
  • To Everything, There Is a Season

    To Everything, There Is a Season
    May 22 2025
    In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores the emotional complexity of life transitions through her experience at her son's college graduation, reminding us that even joyful milestones can evoke tears of both celebration and loss. She offers a four-step framework for navigating transitions with meaning: begin with gratitude, name the loss, ritualize the moment, and set intentions for what comes next. Join her for a meditation to embrace the bittersweet nature of change, while finding rituals that honor both endings and beginnings.
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    28 min
  • Exposing the Good

    Exposing the Good
    May 15 2025
    In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl reflects on the emotional return of Edan Alexander, the last American living hostage, and the longing it stirred for hope and good news in dark times. She explores how journalism’s focus on dysfunction over solutions shapes our worldview—and what might change if we told stories driven by curiosity rather than fear. With insights from personal stories of empathy across divides, join her for a short meditative practice which can help us ask deeper questions, stay open, and practice sakranut—curiosity—in our daily lives.
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    27 min
  • What’s in a Name?

    What’s in a Name?
    May 8 2025
    In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl leads a teaching and meditation on the power of naming. She explores how ancestral memory can connect generations across faiths and cultures, highlighting the deep spiritual resonance of names. Join her for this meditation exploring the many names we have for God — and to consider what name we might give to the Divine today, as an act of relationship and sacred recognition.
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    27 min
  • Living in our Bodies

    Living in our Bodies
    May 1 2025
    Join Rabbi Nicole Auerbach as she leads a guided meditation focused on bodily awareness and appreciation, to notice pleasant sensations as part of the Jewish practice of counting the Omer between Passover and Shavuot. Drawing inspiration from the Torah portion Tazria-Metzora and the concept of Tiferet (beauty/harmony), she emphasizes how our bodies contain wisdom that helps us discern when to engage with community and when to turn inward for healing. The meditation invites participants to experience the continuous renewal of creation through mindful attention to bodily sensations, using the mantra uvtuvo michadesh (new each moment) as an anchor for awareness.
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    29 min
  • Eating as Mindfulness Practice

    Eating as Mindfulness Practice
    Apr 24 2025
    In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl reflects on the end of Passover and the spiritual significance of food in Jewish tradition, interpreting the Torah's ancient laws of kashrut as a contemporary gateway to mindfulness. She explores how our eating can be transformed into a sacred practice of gratitude, intention, and connection. Whether you keep kosher or not, join her for a short teaching and meditation which might elevate your next meal into a moment of presence and purpose.
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    28 min