THE LIVING JEWISHLY BLOG
Learning to Stop
In an age of increasing anxiety and stress, Shabbat is a transformative time period that reconnects us to our families, our friends, our community, and most importantly, to ourselves. From cooking to conversation, music to meditation, prayer to peace, the genuine Shabbat experience is what the world needs now.
Episode 50: Sukkot and the Future of the Earth
This week’s episode of Living Jewishly dives into our evolving relationship with the natural world, how to incorporate our holiday messages into the rest of our year, and the importance of embracing our identities as beings of nature.
EPISODE 50: Sacred Time Tishrei (On Sukkot)
In this episode, Bluth and Ganga Devi explore the holiday of Sukkot, looking at the fragility, stability, and joy of this time in which we step out of our ordinary homes and find home and communion in relationship with the natural, living world.
Restorative Sukkot Yoga Practice
Unroll your mat and move intentionally into you Sacred Sukkah Space. Under the shade of the sukkah, connected to the outdoors, covered with branches of schach, and enclosed like a womb, let's slow down, stretch out.
EPISODE 49: Yom Kippur - Learning to Forgive
This episode is all about forgiveness — why we need it, what can stand in its way, and how we can reach it. Yom Kippur is a time of atonement in which we challenge accountable actions.
EPISODE 49: Yom Kippur - Learning to Forgive
This episode is all about forgiveness — why we need it, what can stand in its way, and how we can reach it. Yom Kippur is a time of atonement in which we challenge accountable actions.
Life and the Doorknob Confession
Why do people bother with the High Holidays? Some want to, some have to, some feel compelled to, some do it for others, some pay homage to the past, some throw darts at the future. The High Holidays remind us about repentance, of reconnecting to Jewish values and Jewish unity. The lesser-known purpose of Rosh Hashanah is, on some fundamental level, about remembering that we are going to die.
Episode 46: Sacred Time - Elul
This episode of Living Jewishly is an instalment of Sacred Time, a podcast devoted to the healing art of the Hebrew calendar. In this episode exploring the significance of the month of Elul, Bluth and Ganga Devi unpack major themes related to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Rosh Chodesh Eul, with guest yoga teacher, Jenna Zadaka
Chodesh Tov! We invite you to begin this month with a beautiful yoga practice. This yoga practice invites us to return to our inner child, which is the tikkun (healing) of this month; to remember to return (teshuva) home with each breath; and to inspire our own sense of Awe through nature, and through our bodies.
Baseball, Ice Cream and Fixing a Broken World
In Elliot Malamets latest blog he discusses the “Law of Triviality,” which asserted that the amount of time spent discussing an issue within an organization ran in inverse proportion to its actual importance. When the world is shuddering under the press of weightier matters we choose to talk about trivial things instead of discussing the important issues due to lack of understanding.
Episode 45 - Sacred Time: AV
Love plays a significant role in the complex month of Av. Ganga Devi, Bluth, and guest Idan Lumi explore love of self, love of others, and love of the divine as they delve into the significance of the month of Av.
EPISODE 44 - Game, Sex, Match: Religious Singles and the Quest for Romantic Love.
This week’s episode of Living Jewishly is an instalment of Across the Sea, a podcast about mental health and Judaism. Guests Rabbi Rachel Rosenbluth and Micki Lavin-Pell discuss dating and building healthy relationships while Jewish.
Sacred Time: Tammuz
This episode of Sacred Time is centred on the rich history of Tammuz, the nature of trauma, and the acts of reflection and integration. This is a sacred time of mourning a time when we give space to anger and despair. But it also has much to teach us about how to heal.
Gratitude
Much of contemporary life is organized around making us desire things we do not need. How do we break the cycle of false desire and its twin sister, incessant complaining? There are two key steps, renunciation and gratitude. In this blog Dr. Malamet discusses how we can break the cycle and be grateful for all that we have.
Rosh Chodesh Av by Bluth featuring poet Ester Eckhaus
As we welcome the month of Av, we are featuring poet, Ester Eckhaus, whose words bring us in introspection and prayer, to guide us in the tenderness and pain of this month of mourning.
EPISODE 43 - Are There Innocent Civilians in War?
You might think that “ethics of war” is a contradiction in terms, but warfare is a rich subject when it comes to discussing ethical considerations. In this episode, we explore the contemporary ethics of war. Proportionality, collateral damage, and just cause are just a few of the complex topics explored in this thought-provoking episode.