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In these stormy times, take a few minutes each week to find your balance and nourish yourself with wisdom from Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, one of America’s foremost spiritual leaders. Join IJS for a “Weekly Meditation with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl,” a short, weekly podcast featuring a brief, accessible, and engaging teaching and meditation based on the weekly Torah portion, an upcoming Jewish holiday, or wisdom from Jewish tradition. In just a few minutes each week, Rabbi Buchdahl, Senior Rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City, will help you pause, breathe, and find balance and clarity to weather today’s storms and meet our personal and collective challenges with Jewish wisdom. Whether you are in your car, on a walk, or at home, join us to learn, nourish your spirit, and deepen your practice.
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- Jun 12, 202527 min
Until We Meet Again: The Jewish Art of Sacred Goodbyes
For this, the final episode of this podcast, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores the Jewish approach to goodbyes, revealing how Hebrew farewells like lehitra'ot ("until we meet again") and hadran alach ("I will return to you") express hope for reunion rather than finality. Reflecting on traditional blessings recited when seeing someone after a long separation, she notes that how Jewish tradition doesn't take reunions for granted. Join her for a short meditation on honoring both the difficulty of parting and the sacred nature of return.
- Jun 5, 202527 min
The Wheat Will Grow Again
Join Rabbi Angela Buchdahl for a short teaching and meditation for finding hope amidst tragedy. In this episode, she weaves together the story of a young Israeli scientist, Zechariah Haber, who was killed in the current war while researching crop resilience, and "The Wheat Grows Again," a song that emerged from devastating losses in Israel in 1973. The teaching explores how Haber's doctoral thesis, completed posthumously by his friend and beginning with lyrics about wheat growing again after loss, offers a metaphor for choosing smaller, sustainable solutions over seeking perfect answers. Join Rabbi Buchdahl for a short practice for developing resilience that comes by nurturing what grows naturally and the legacy we inherit.
- May 29, 202526 min
Lift Up the Head of Every Person
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores why Jewish tradition forbids directly counting people, requiring census-taking through numbering coins instead of individuals. She connects this ancient wisdom to modern dehumanization, explaining how the the Torah's instructions to "lift up the heads" means to see each person's unique gifts rather than as a number. Join her for a short guided meditation for recognizing the sacred worth of every soul — including our own.
- May 22, 202528 min
To Everything, There Is a Season
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores the emotional complexity of life transitions through her experience at her son's college graduation, reminding us that even joyful milestones can evoke tears of both celebration and loss. She offers a four-step framework for navigating transitions with meaning: begin with gratitude, name the loss, ritualize the moment, and set intentions for what comes next. Join her for a meditation to embrace the bittersweet nature of change, while finding rituals that honor both endings and beginnings.
- May 15, 202526 min
Exposing the Good
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl reflects on the emotional return of Edan Alexander, the last American living hostage, and the longing it stirred for hope and good news in dark times. She explores how journalism’s focus on dysfunction over solutions shapes our worldview—and what might change if we told stories driven by curiosity rather than fear. With insights from personal stories of empathy across divides, join her for a short meditative practice which can help us ask deeper questions, stay open, and practice sakranut—curiosity—in our daily lives.
- May 8, 202527 min
What’s in a Name?
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl leads a teaching and meditation on the power of naming. She explores how ancestral memory can connect generations across faiths and cultures, highlighting the deep spiritual resonance of names. Join her for this meditation exploring the many names we have for God — and to consider what name we might give to the Divine today, as an act of relationship and sacred recognition.
- May 1, 202529 min
Living in our Bodies
Join Rabbi Nicole Auerbach as she leads a guided meditation focused on bodily awareness and appreciation, to notice pleasant sensations as part of the Jewish practice of counting the Omer between Passover and Shavuot. Drawing inspiration from the Torah portion Tazria-Metzora and the concept of Tiferet (beauty/harmony), she emphasizes how our bodies contain wisdom that helps us discern when to engage with community and when to turn inward for healing. The meditation invites participants to experience the continuous renewal of creation through mindful attention to bodily sensations, using the mantra uvtuvo michadesh (new each moment) as an anchor for awareness.
- Apr 24, 202528 min
Eating as Mindfulness Practice
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl reflects on the end of Passover and the spiritual significance of food in Jewish tradition, interpreting the Torah's ancient laws of kashrut as a contemporary gateway to mindfulness. She explores how our eating can be transformed into a sacred practice of gratitude, intention, and connection. Whether you keep kosher or not, join her for a short teaching and meditation which might elevate your next meal into a moment of presence and purpose.
About Weekly Meditation with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
In these stormy times, take a few minutes each week to find your balance and nourish yourself with wisdom from Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, one of America’s foremost spiritual leaders. Join IJS for a “Weekly Meditation with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl,” a short, weekly podcast featuring a brief, accessible, and engaging teaching and meditation based on the weekly Torah portion, an upcoming Jewish holiday, or wisdom from Jewish tradition. In just a few minutes each week, Rabbi Buchdahl, Senior Rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City, will help you pause, breathe, and find balance and clarity to weather today’s storms and meet our personal and collective challenges with Jewish wisdom. Whether you are in your car, on a walk, or at home, join us to learn, nourish your spirit, and deepen your practice.
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