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    <title>Hashivenu - Episodes Tagged with “Embodiment”</title>
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    <description>Hashivenu is a podcast about Jewish teachings and practice around resilience. Cultivating resilience in challenging times, both individually and collectively, is an essential path to personal renewal. 
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    <itunes:summary>Hashivenu is a podcast about Jewish teachings and practice around resilience. Cultivating resilience in challenging times, both individually and collectively, is an essential path to personal renewal. 
&lt;a href="https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/support/"&gt;Support Hashivenu&lt;/a&gt;
Find out more about the show at About (https://hashivenu.fireside.fm/about), and learn about our theme song at Theme Song (https://hashivenu.fireside.fm/theme-song).
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This podcast is produced by Reconstructing Judaism. Visit us at ReconstructingJudaism.org (https://ReconstructingJudaism.org)
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  <title>The Jewish Way to a Good Life: A Conversation with Rabbi Shira Stutman</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>What does it really mean to live a good life and how can ancient Jewish practices help us get there? Rabbi Deborah Waxman sits down with her teacher, colleague, and friend Rabbi Shira Stutman, author of The Jewish Way to a Good Life, for a wide-ranging conversation about meaning, resilience, and loving kindness.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>What does it really mean to live a good life and how can ancient Jewish practices help us get there? Rabbi Deborah Waxman sits down with her teacher, colleague, and friend Rabbi Shira Stutman, author of The Jewish Way to a Good Life, for a wide-ranging conversation about meaning, resilience, and loving kindness. Together, they explore how Jewish wisdom offers practical tools for universal human challenges: how to love, how to mourn, how to care for our bodies, how to build justice, and how to show up for one another imperfectly but persistently. At the center of their conversation is hesed, loving kindness, which Shira describes as more than emotion: It’s the courage to show up in daunting spaces and do the hard, sustained work of caring.
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This podcast is produced by Reconstructing Judaism. Visit us at ReconstructingJudaism.org (https://ReconstructingJudaism.org). Special Guest: Rabbi Shira Stutman.
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    <![CDATA[<p>What does it really mean to live a good life and how can ancient Jewish practices help us get there? Rabbi Deborah Waxman sits down with her teacher, colleague, and friend Rabbi Shira Stutman, author of <em>The Jewish Way to a Good Life</em>, for a wide-ranging conversation about meaning, resilience, and loving kindness. Together, they explore how Jewish wisdom offers practical tools for universal human challenges: how to love, how to mourn, how to care for our bodies, how to build justice, and how to show up for one another imperfectly but persistently. At the center of their conversation is hesed, loving kindness, which Shira describes as more than emotion: It’s the courage to show up in daunting spaces and do the hard, sustained work of caring.</p>

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<p>This podcast is produced by Reconstructing Judaism. Visit us at <a href="https://ReconstructingJudaism.org" rel="nofollow">ReconstructingJudaism.org</a>.</p><p>Special Guest: Rabbi Shira Stutman.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/donate">Support Hashivenu</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Buy Shira&#39;s book, &quot;The Jewish Way to a Good Life&quot; " rel="nofollow" href="https://theexperimentpublishing.com/catalogs/winter-2025/the-jewish-way-to-a-good-life/">Buy Shira's book, "The Jewish Way to a Good Life" </a></li><li><a title="Listen to Rabbi Shira&#39;s podcast Chutzpod!" rel="nofollow" href="https://chutzpod.com/">Listen to Rabbi Shira's podcast Chutzpod!</a></li><li><a title="Support Hashivenu with a donation to Reconstructing Judaism" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/support">Support Hashivenu with a donation to Reconstructing Judaism</a></li><li><a title="Learn more and register for Reconstructing Judaism&#39;s movement-wide convention &quot;B&#39;Yachad,&quot; March 12-15 in Philadelphia" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/byachad">Learn more and register for Reconstructing Judaism's movement-wide convention "B'Yachad," March 12-15 in Philadelphia</a></li><li><a title="Reconstructing Judaism" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.reconstructingjudaism.org">Reconstructing Judaism</a></li><li><a title="Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations" rel="nofollow" href="http://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org">Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations</a></li><li><a title="Ritualwell" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ritualwell.org">Ritualwell</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>What does it really mean to live a good life and how can ancient Jewish practices help us get there? Rabbi Deborah Waxman sits down with her teacher, colleague, and friend Rabbi Shira Stutman, author of <em>The Jewish Way to a Good Life</em>, for a wide-ranging conversation about meaning, resilience, and loving kindness. Together, they explore how Jewish wisdom offers practical tools for universal human challenges: how to love, how to mourn, how to care for our bodies, how to build justice, and how to show up for one another imperfectly but persistently. At the center of their conversation is hesed, loving kindness, which Shira describes as more than emotion: It’s the courage to show up in daunting spaces and do the hard, sustained work of caring.</p>

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<p>This podcast is produced by Reconstructing Judaism. Visit us at <a href="https://ReconstructingJudaism.org" rel="nofollow">ReconstructingJudaism.org</a>.</p><p>Special Guest: Rabbi Shira Stutman.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/donate">Support Hashivenu</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Buy Shira&#39;s book, &quot;The Jewish Way to a Good Life&quot; " rel="nofollow" href="https://theexperimentpublishing.com/catalogs/winter-2025/the-jewish-way-to-a-good-life/">Buy Shira's book, "The Jewish Way to a Good Life" </a></li><li><a title="Listen to Rabbi Shira&#39;s podcast Chutzpod!" rel="nofollow" href="https://chutzpod.com/">Listen to Rabbi Shira's podcast Chutzpod!</a></li><li><a title="Support Hashivenu with a donation to Reconstructing Judaism" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/support">Support Hashivenu with a donation to Reconstructing Judaism</a></li><li><a title="Learn more and register for Reconstructing Judaism&#39;s movement-wide convention &quot;B&#39;Yachad,&quot; March 12-15 in Philadelphia" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/byachad">Learn more and register for Reconstructing Judaism's movement-wide convention "B'Yachad," March 12-15 in Philadelphia</a></li><li><a title="Reconstructing Judaism" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.reconstructingjudaism.org">Reconstructing Judaism</a></li><li><a title="Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations" rel="nofollow" href="http://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org">Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations</a></li><li><a title="Ritualwell" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ritualwell.org">Ritualwell</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <title>How to become our fullest, most expressive selves? Practice, practice, practice  </title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
  <author>Reconstructing Judaism</author>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Yoshi Silverstein, founder and director of the Mitsui Collective, explains that in difficult times like these, embodiment practices can help us understand and name the extent to which strong emotions are having an impact on us. The key to being able to respond to stressful stimuli in a healthy way? Awareness and practice, practice practice. </itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Weeks ago, Rabbi Deborah Waxman and founder Yoshi Silverstein scheduled this discussion about embodied Jewish practice and antiracism. Did it make any sense to have this conversation in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli civilians and hostage taking, the subsequent and unfolding war and its tremendous toll on Palestinian civilians? After pausing to consider, they decided that such a conversation is more important than ever, both to themselves and listeners. Silverstein, founder and director of the Mitsui Collective, explains that in difficult times like these, embodiment practices can help us understand and name the extent to which strong emotions are having an impact on us. Awareness and practice are key to being able to respond to stressful stimuli in a healthy way. He outlines several simple practices that can help, including orienting and box breathing, and quotes Viktor Frankl, the psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor whose writing deeply informs how humans understand trauma. "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
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This podcast is produced by Reconstructing Judaism. Visit us at ReconstructingJudaism.org (https://ReconstructingJudaism.org). Special Guest: Yoshi Silverstein.
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    <![CDATA[<p>Weeks ago, Rabbi Deborah Waxman and founder Yoshi Silverstein scheduled this discussion about embodied Jewish practice and antiracism. Did it make any sense to have this conversation in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli civilians and hostage taking, the subsequent and unfolding war and its tremendous toll on Palestinian civilians? After pausing to consider, they decided that such a conversation is more important than ever, both to themselves and listeners. Silverstein, founder and director of the Mitsui Collective, explains that in difficult times like these, embodiment practices can help us understand and name the extent to which strong emotions are having an impact on us. Awareness and practice are key to being able to respond to stressful stimuli in a healthy way. He outlines several simple practices that can help, including orienting and box breathing, and quotes Viktor Frankl, the psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor whose writing deeply informs how humans understand trauma. &quot;Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.&quot;</p>

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<p>This podcast is produced by Reconstructing Judaism. Visit us at <a href="https://ReconstructingJudaism.org" rel="nofollow">ReconstructingJudaism.org</a>.</p><p>Special Guest: Yoshi Silverstein.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/donate">Support Hashivenu</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Deborah teaches box breathing technique" rel="nofollow" href="https://hashivenu.fireside.fm/34">Deborah teaches box breathing technique</a></li><li><a title="Learn more about Mitsui Collective" rel="nofollow" href="https://mitsuicollective.org/">Learn more about Mitsui Collective</a></li><li><a title="Ritualwell resources speaking to the current moment" rel="nofollow" href="https://ritualwell.org/topic/communal-tragedy/">Ritualwell resources speaking to the current moment</a></li><li><a title="Explore groundbreaking essays on Evolve" rel="nofollow" href="https://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/">Explore groundbreaking essays on Evolve</a></li><li><a title="Reconstructing Judaism on the web" rel="nofollow" href="https://reconstructingjudaism.org">Reconstructing Judaism on the web</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Weeks ago, Rabbi Deborah Waxman and founder Yoshi Silverstein scheduled this discussion about embodied Jewish practice and antiracism. Did it make any sense to have this conversation in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli civilians and hostage taking, the subsequent and unfolding war and its tremendous toll on Palestinian civilians? After pausing to consider, they decided that such a conversation is more important than ever, both to themselves and listeners. Silverstein, founder and director of the Mitsui Collective, explains that in difficult times like these, embodiment practices can help us understand and name the extent to which strong emotions are having an impact on us. Awareness and practice are key to being able to respond to stressful stimuli in a healthy way. He outlines several simple practices that can help, including orienting and box breathing, and quotes Viktor Frankl, the psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor whose writing deeply informs how humans understand trauma. &quot;Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.&quot;</p>

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<p>This podcast is produced by Reconstructing Judaism. Visit us at <a href="https://ReconstructingJudaism.org" rel="nofollow">ReconstructingJudaism.org</a>.</p><p>Special Guest: Yoshi Silverstein.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/donate">Support Hashivenu</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Deborah teaches box breathing technique" rel="nofollow" href="https://hashivenu.fireside.fm/34">Deborah teaches box breathing technique</a></li><li><a title="Learn more about Mitsui Collective" rel="nofollow" href="https://mitsuicollective.org/">Learn more about Mitsui Collective</a></li><li><a title="Ritualwell resources speaking to the current moment" rel="nofollow" href="https://ritualwell.org/topic/communal-tragedy/">Ritualwell resources speaking to the current moment</a></li><li><a title="Explore groundbreaking essays on Evolve" rel="nofollow" href="https://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/">Explore groundbreaking essays on Evolve</a></li><li><a title="Reconstructing Judaism on the web" rel="nofollow" href="https://reconstructingjudaism.org">Reconstructing Judaism on the web</a></li></ul>]]>
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