Hashivenu
Jewish teachings on resilience
Displaying all 5 Episode of Hashivenu with the tag “jewish”.
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Building Covenantal Community in the New Year and Beyond
October 10th, 2024 | Season 5 | 44 mins 33 secs
5785, conservative, deborah waxman, high holiday, high holidays, jewish, judiasm, new year, orthodox, reconstructing judaism, reconstructionist, reform, rosh hashanah, sukkot, yom kippur
With the High Holiday season underway, Deborah welcomes Justin Rosen Smolen, Reconstructing Judaism's Vice President for Thriving Communities and Partnerships, for a wide-ranging conversation about covenantal community.
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Rabbi Elyse Wechterman, CEO of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
May 16th, 2024 | Season 5 | 38 mins 45 secs
change, jewish, judaism, leader, leadership, mordecai kaplan, rabbi, rabbinical, reconstructing judaism, reconstructionist, reconstructionist judaism, resilience, rra
Earlier this year, Rabbi Elyse Wechterman announced that she will step down from her position as CEO of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association (RRA) in June after leading the organization for the past nine years. Elyse stops by Deborah’s office to look back on her tenure and look ahead to what’s next.
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Cheryl Cook, CEO of Avodah
March 28th, 2024 | Season 5 | 38 mins 55 secs
avodah, feminism, israel, jewish, judaism, justice work, leadership, palestine, racial justice, women
Rabbi Deborah Waxman welcomes Cheryl Cook, CEO of Avodah, for a wide-ranging conversation about women in leadership, justice work, allyship, parenthood and more.
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How to become our fullest, most expressive selves? Practice, practice, practice
October 24th, 2023 | Season 5 | 59 mins 34 secs
box breathing, embodied practice, embodiment, israel, jewish, judaism, resilience, trauma, viktor frankl
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.
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S4 Ep. 9: Season of Reflection and Repentance
September 19th, 2022 | Season 4 | 38 mins 10 secs
high holidays, jewish, judaism, rosh hashanah, yom kippur
Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D and Rabbi Sandra Lawson, discuss their respective processes of preparing for the High Holidays. This isn’t about leading services, but about how, as human beings, they undertake an accounting of the soul, leading to repentance for their own actions and forgiveness toward others.