23 episodes
Being and Becoming Tufts Hillel
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- Religion & Spirituality
Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer shares Jewish spiritual inspiration for everyday living
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Parshat Ki-Tisa The Antidote to Fundamentalism
Social media creates the illusion of perfection. The lives of others appear faultless while we know our own lives are far from perfect. How to emancipate ourselves from this tyranny while leaning into our brokenness?
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Parshat Tzav Shattering the Tyranny of Perfection
Knowledge is power, but power can be blinding. The true path of wisdom is one of intellectual humility.
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Intellectual Humility, Parshat Terumah
Knowledge is power, but power can be blinding. The true path of wisdom is one of intellectual humility.
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Losing my childhood God, Parshat Mishpatim
As a child I experienced God’s closeness, as I grew older God became more distant. Then I discovered how to hold these two polarities in tension.
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‘Like’ I, Parshat Yitro, Can G-d be truly revealed?
The bible depicts God’s revelation at mount Sinai. But what does a Divine revelation entail? The Ishbitzer Rebbe asserts that God can never be fully revealed, and all that humans are capable of grasping is a pale likeness of the real thing.
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Faith & Doubt | Parshat Beshalach
The Lebanese American Poet Kahlil Gibran wrote: Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. This episode highlights the role of doubt in ensuring that faith does not get reduced to dogma.