Welcoming both the new moon (new month) of Av and Shabbat, with a Yoga flow that weaves the potent power of this month through embodied yoga asana practice.
EPISODE 86: The Girl From Irish Lake
This episode of the Living Jewishly Podcasts is an episode of What’s In Your Toolbox?, a podcast about mental health and the tools that help us to cope and heal. In this episode, Alex and host Bobby K explore the hazards of perfectionist notions, how her mental health challenges have influenced her career, and the importance of speaking out and being authentic.
Let God Explain
Human beings throughout history have committed acts of unspeakable evil. In addition, natural disasters have killed untold millions; babies and children have suffered terrible illness and deformity. For the religious believer, there is a component of agonizing perplexity, why would God would create a world which is then seemingly abandoned to fate?
EPISODE 85: Transgender – A Human Story
This week’s episode of the Living Jewishly Podcasts is an instalment of Crossing the Sea, a podcast about Judaism and mental health. Dr. Elliot Malamet speaks with transgender adults about their experiences with transitioning and how they view their lives through a Jewish lens.
REPLAY: Sacred Time Episode 42: Tammuz
This week’s instalment of the Living Jewishly Podcast revisits the Tammuz episode of Sacred Time, a podcast devoted to exploring the healing art of the Hebrew calendar. In this rich and thought-provoking episode, Bluth and Ganga Devi explore the nature of trauma, the different ways we may approach it, and steps that we can take to heal.
Must We Be Happy?
Happiness is like a destination that is seemingly not too far away and yet arriving is much harder than you thought it would be. The cultural pressure to be happy has grown exponentially. Books; tapes, life coaches, university courses.Perhaps we should look at happiness as a gentle aspiration, a fluid goal, rather than a strict mandate to be complied with
EPISODE 79 Reading Sinai: Tamar Ross and the Ethics of Cumulativism
This week’s episode of the Living Jewishly Podcasts is an instalment of What Would You Do?, a podcast about ethics in the modern world. Dr. Elliot Malamet speaks with Professor Tamar Ross of Bar-Ilan University about the implications of the Mount Sinai story and how we may approach it in our modern context.