Weekly Meditation with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl

Auteur(s): Institute for Jewish Spirituality
  • Résumé

  • 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.
    2024 Institute for Jewish Spirituality
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Épisodes
  • Choosing Where to Place Your Heart: Mindfulness in a World of Overwhelm
    Nov 21 2024
    Rabbi Angela Buchdahl reflects on the overwhelming weight of personal and global worries, from family concerns to worldwide crises, and the dangers of living consumed by the news. Drawing on Oliver Burkeman’s insights, she explores how mindfulness helps us focus on what truly matters. Through personal stories and a guided meditation, Rabbi Buchdahl encourages listeners to choose where to place their attention—and their heart—to lead a more intentional and meaningful life.
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    28 min
  • Gam zeh l'tovah: Finding Peace in Life's Challenges
    Nov 15 2024
    In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl offers a moment of stillness and reflection amid the noise of the world. Drawing on the story of Rabbi Nachum Ish Gamzu, a 2nd-century Jewish sage known for his unwavering optimism in the face of suffering, Rabbi Buchdahl invites listeners to reflect on the challenges of our times. With global unrest, political uncertainty, and environmental concerns weighing heavily, she shares Nachum's powerful lesson of seeing Gam zeh l'tovah ("This, too, is for the good") in even the most difficult moments. Through Nachum’s story—where a seemingly disastrous gift of sand turned into a blessing for the Jewish people—Rabbi Buchdahl explores themes of humility, mindfulness, and faith. She encourages us to find meaning and hope in life’s trials, reminding us that we may not control our circumstances, but we can choose how we respond. The episode concludes with a guided meditation, inviting listeners to breathe deeply, embrace silence, and connect to a sense of inner peace, embodying the spirit of Gam zeh l'tovah. It's a call to cultivate stillness, perspective, and gratitude in the midst of uncertainty.
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    27 min
  • Choosing Mindfully, on Election Day and Beyond
    Nov 7 2024
    Rabbi Angela Buchdahl offers a simple meditation and practice for meeting the stresses of the election season, by settling our nervous system, by discerning the aspects of the situation we cannot control, and by remembering our capacity to choose our response in the areas within our control. Not only can we make a choice on Election Day, but even afterwards we can continue to choose a wise response as events unfold.
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    28 min

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