Joel Hecker, Ph.D., professor of Jewish mysticism at RRC, shares 10 aspects of luminosity outlined in kabbalistic literature. In this teaching on mysticism, he names different manifestations of the Divine presence.
Rabbi Elliot Kukla explores how trauma and disability represent essential aspects of being human.
Legal scholars and activists Gila Stopler and Yofi Tirosh explain threats posed by the new governing coalition to Israeli democracy, urging listeners abroad not only to care, but to engage.
In honor of Evolve’s five-year anniversary, Rabbi Alex Weissman tackles the problematic theme in Jewish tradition of equating light with goodness and dark with evil.
In this podcast, Rabbi David Seidenberg teaches that the central purpose of the Torah is to ensure that people live in harmony with the environment and other living things.
Writing about climate crisis and environmental racism, Rabbi Julie Greenberg reminds us to say “Yes” to life, to love and to nature — to be fully human and in community with others even as we face unprecedented challenges.
In this podcast, Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb and Rabbi Deborah Waxman explore the ways in which Jewish tradition and ecological consciousness provide compelling models for resilience and sustainability.
Sharing a personal story, Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann illustrates how mental illness must be treated as a normal part of life freed from secrecy and silence, the places where shame lives and festers.
Reconstructionist leader Marc Overbeck watched the most recent Israeli election returns with mounting concern regarding the future of a democratic Israel. In this podcast, he raises up two idealistic thinkers — Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan and Theodor Herzl — and offers an impassioned defense of the idea of democratic government as
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