Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 122: Riffin' with the Rabbis
In this episode of The Neshamah Project, Rabbi Ben Newman revives Riffing with the Rabbi with longtime friend Marcia Salter, joined along th...
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Neshamah Project Episode 121: 52 Gates/September Both/And
In this episode of The Neshamah Project, I read “September, Both/And,” a reflection from my book 52 Gates: Reflections on Living. September...
The Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 120: Sweetening the Judgements
In this teaching from the Degel Machaneh Ephraim, righteous judgment becomes an act of creation. Through the shofar, harsh judgment is trans...
The Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 119: Taste it, Find it, Choose it
This week on The Neshamah Project, we explore three teachings from the Or HaChayyim on the opening words of Parashat Re’eh: “See, I place be...
The Neshamah Project Episode 118: One Stone at a Time
In this episode, Rabbi Ben explores two teachings from the Degel Machaneh Ephraim about how spiritual transformation unfolds. Every action b...
The Neshamah Project Episode 117: Interview with Professor Shaul Magid
Professor Shaul Magid (Harvard Divinity School) joins me for a conversation about spirituality and the political. We trace his path from the...
The Neshamah Project 116: Living with Mystery
In this episode, Rabbi Ben explores the mystery of the red heifer through the teaching of the Or HaChaim. Rather than treating mystery as a...
The Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 115: Spiritual Maturity
This week on The Neshamah Project, Rabbi Ben Newman explores three mystical commentaries on Korach—from the Moroccan kabbalists Abir Yaakov...
Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 114: Being and Nothingness
Rabbi Ben Newman is joined by Rabbi Shoshana Leis for a lively exploration of a Hasidic teaching on ayin and yesh—emptiness and being. Toget...
Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 113: The Goal is Unity
In this episode of The Neshamah Project, Rabbi Ben explores a teaching from the Noam Elimelech on the Menorah as a symbol of spiritual integ...
The Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 112: Pleasure as a Crown for the Divine
In this week’s episode of The Neshamah Project, we explore a teaching from the Noam Elimelech on Nasso about wonder, desire, and sacred part...
Neshamah Project Episode 111: Humility and Renewal
A teaching from R' Elimelekh of Lezhinsk, Noam Elimelekh, on BaMidbar, Numbers 1:1, 2:1 on humility and renewal.
The Neshamah Project Episode 110: A Taste of Reenchantment
This week on The Neshamah Project, Rabbi Ben Newman explores a visionary teaching from the Meor Einayim, in which Shabbat becomes far more t...
Neshamah Project Podcast- Episode 109: Same Letters, Different World
Ephraim on the spiritual power of letters, language, and perception. Drawing on a story of the Baal Shem Tov transforming a harsh decree int...
Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 108: Inner Freedom
During the week of Passover, this episode explores the Exodus as an inner journey rather than a distant story. Drawing on Hasidic and mystic...
Neshamah Project Episode 107: The Architecture of Illumination
In this episode we will dive into two comments from the Degel on Parshat Tetzaveh. The Degel reads tetzaveh not only as “command,” but as tz...
The Neshamah Project-Epsiode 106: Taking the Infinite Home
In this episode of The Neshamah Project, Rabbi Ben Newman explores the deeper meaning of “Vayikchu li terumah” — not as giving something to...
Neshamah Project Epsiode 105: The Hidden Ledger
A mystical reading of Mishpatim that reframes justice as part of a longer soul-arc. Drawing on the Degel Machaneh Ephraim and the Zohar, thi...
Neshamah Project Episode 104: Redemption Is Singular, Power That Lifts
his episode of The Neshamah Project explores a Hasidic teaching that insists liberation happens one person at a time, each according to thei...
Neshamah Project: Tu Bishvat Special | The Great Chain
For Tu Bishvat, I recorded a special episode of The Neshamah Project Podcast that moves from soil to soul. A spoken-word meditation on the f...