15 episodes
Imagine with Us Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis
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5.0 • 14 Ratings
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Join Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis as we explore how we can co-create a caring society - one that centers the needs of people and the planet rather than corporate interests. How might our economic, education, legal, and political systems look if guided by love, generosity, empathy, justice, and peace? We discuss nuanced, psycho-spiritual analyses of the political landscape, moving beyond materialist-reductionism and shame. Come imagine with us. Imagine with Us is a project of Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives. Learn more about us at tikkun.org and spiritualprogressives.org
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Ep15: Judaism Unbound with Rabbi Michael Lerner
[1] Original Podcast posted on Judaism Unbound, a digitally-driven, radically open center for education serving as a catalyst for an entirely new era of Judaism.
[2] Lerner has written a number of books over the years — some of our favorites include Jewish Renewal, which you can purchase here, The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right, available via this link, and Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World, available here.
[3] In discussing the influence of AIPAC on elections, Lerner references a recent congressional primary in Michigan. For more on this, see “Pro-Israel group pours millions into primary to defeat Jewish candidate,” a piece in the Guardian written by Chris McGreal. You can also check out a piece in Tikkun, entitled “‘Anti-Israel’ and ‘Pro-Israel’ in Michigan Election,” written by Ronald Aronson.
[4] Learn more about Jim Wallis, a progressive Christian theologian that Lerner references, via this link.
[5] For the article Lerner references, published in Tikkun as the first written by a gay and Orthodox rabbi — under a pseudonym — click here and skip to pages 41-42. The piece was written by Steven Greenberg, initially under the pseudonym Yaakov Levado, and is entitled “Gayness and God: Wrestlings of an Orthodox Rabbi.”
[6] Sign up to attend regular Torah Study (via Zoom) with Lerner’s community here! -
A Hopeful Sign in Troubled Times
Welcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, we share a story that can provide hope and inspiration and discuss the challenges we face in our efforts to move beyond individual acts of goodness to acts of societal transformation.
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Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us)
Rabbi Lerner’s book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove
Emma’s Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com -
Violence in Israel/Palestine
In this episode, we discuss the ongoing conflict and rising violence in Israel/Palestine.
Ha’aretz Article
You can learn more and register for the JCC East Bay Tikkun Leyl Shavuot (where Rabbi Lerner and Cat Zavis will be teaching) here.
Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org
Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org
Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us)
Rabbi Lerner’s book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove
Emma’s Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com -
Anti-Racist Struggles After Minneapolis Guilty Verdict
Welcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, we celebrate the guilty verdicts in Minneapolis even as we mourn ongoing police murders of African Americans. The same day Chauvin was convicted, a 16 yr old African American girl in Columbus, OH was shot dead by police. Guilty verdicts are not enough to achieve the fundamental changes needed in the criminal justice system and to end racism in our society.
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Fascism Rising: Lessons from the Holocaust
Welcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, we discuss the rise of fascist forms of nationalism and a strategy to tackle it before it controls the United States and other countries.
Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org
Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org
Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us)
Rabbi Lerner’s book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove
Emma’s Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com -
Celebrating the Covid Relief Bill and Dreaming of More
Welcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, Celebrating the Covid Relief Bill and Dreaming of More, we recognize the importance of celebrating the covid relief bill that will provide desperately needed funds to Americans at this time and speak to what we believe is needed going forward.
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Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org
Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org
Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us)
Rabbi Lerner’s book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove
Emma’s Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com
Customer Reviews
Finally a bright light of reason
I have followed Rabbi Lerner‘s writings for 20 years now.
I am excited and grateful that his wisdom is now available in auditory format.
This is the most compassionate and wise reading of society and politics that I ever encounter.
Be ready to be challenged