Episodios
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Find the text study sheet here.
There are a number of
parallels between the creation of the world and the splitting of Yam Suf,
casting this dramatic moment of the Exodus as a kind of “recreation
story.” Which makes the appearance of a provocative midrash about an
Israelite woman picking fruit from a tree and feeding it to another that much
more fascinating… and I’d like to suggest, subversive. What exactly
happened in the Garden of Eden, and what message does it hold for the
generation crossing the sea?
7th Day of Passover 5785 | Parshat Beshallah -
From 4.12.2025
Prepare to embrace the bold vision of Passover
(that we are all heading toward freedom, that pharaohs crumble and fall)
requires focus. Let's affirm the twin pillars of the Hebrew Bible
(chesed/lovingkindness and tzedek/justice) to gird ourselves for the battle
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Ours is not the first generation in which telling this story, reiterating these foundational ideas, is risky. Dangerous, even. And perhaps that is the greatest reason of all to tell this story truthfully.
April 5, 2025 – Pesah 5785 -
Guy Branum joins Rabbi David Kasher to discuss Ashera and the presence of a goddess in the Torah.
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Let us not turn to the garden—or the theater, or the studio—to escape this world, but to enrich the soul, to strengthen our hearts to plant for a better future. Making art, tending gardens, telling stories, especially from within the narrowest constraints—all of these can be sacred acts of defiance.
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This is an archive of IKAR's Adult learning class: The Amen Effect with Rabbi Sharon Brous
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An archive of Rabbi Sharon Brous's The Amen Effect class from 3.11.2025
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An archive of Rabbi Sharon Brous's The Amen Effect Class from 2.25.2025
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The rabbis radically reinvent Elijah. From violent zealot to gentle
peace builder. The path to the messianic era depends on this
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Using Jews as a wedge to break apart the world order is not new.
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On March 3rd, we welcomed Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah, Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the forefront of a burgeoning new peace movement in conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous.
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Rabbi Morris Panitz is joined by Professor Arnold Eisen to discuss his new book. "Seeking the Hiding God: A Personal Theological Essay invites readers to join the author in asking, perhaps for the first time, what they actually believe about ultimate matters of faith and doubt – and rewards fellow- searchers for ultimate meaning with reassurance that the search itself can be a source of personal fulfillment, vibrant community, and great joy."
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When your most precious resource faces grave risk, you create a sanctuary to protect and nurture it. You hold close the seeds, so that when the conditions are right, you can replant and rebuild.
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Hear from Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger and Khaled Abu Awwad, leaders of Roots/Shorashim/Judur, an Israeli-Palestinian grassroots initiative for understanding, nonviolence, and transformation. They represent a unique network of local Palestinians and Israelis who have come to see each other as partners in the work to make changes to end the conflict. They share with Rabbi Sharon Brous and Melissa Balaban their personal stories of struggle and transformation as well as their vision of mutual national recognition and reconciliation.
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In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society? Join Rabbi Brous in a series of text studies that explore the Jewish sources that form the core ideas behind her new book, The Amen Effect.
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We are lost and disoriented. How can the core values of this week's Torah portion supply us with a compass to navigate the landscape of moral injury?
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Yitro reminds us, in the twisted reality of our time: do not quiet your intuition.
Defy the new norms. Live from your deepest moral convictions,
not your most callous political calculations. And do not eat the tainted grain—
no matter how hungry you are. Keep searching for an alternative food source.
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Four postures our tradition warns against, in the face of grave threat:
Do not snail.
Do not capitulate.
Do not meet become the mirror image of your enemy.
Do not render yourselves preemptively powerlessness.
Instead: do what you know. - Mostrar más
