Episode 22: Freeze-Dried Experience (with Rabbi Sid Schwarz)
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Freeze-Dried Experience
Rabbi Sid Schwarz has started impactful organizations, written insightful books, and led many groups of Jews to greater meaning and personal engagement with Judaism. We are so grateful to share this interview full of gems, from Rabbi Sid’s social justice work, to his “davenning out of the box” experience, to what he sees for the Jewish future, all connected to t’fillah.
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(1:26) Learn more about Kenissa: Communities of Meaning here.
(1:57) Learn more about PANIM here.
(2:03) Learn more about Adat Shalom here.
(2:14) You can find Rabbi Sid’s books here.
(5:56) Learn more about Keva and Kavannah here.
(6:54) Learn more about USY here.
(8:58) Learn more about Reb Zalman Shachter-Shalomi here.
(12:45) V’lamalshahnim al tehi tikvah – וְלַמַּלְשִׁינִים אַל תְּהִי תִקְוָה – to the slanderers let them have no success (Sid’s translation).
(13:44) Dagesh – דגש – accent mark.
(15:37) Learn more about JCRC here.
(18:08) Learn more about RRC here.
(18:27) You can find Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan’s Judaism as a Civilization here.
(21:27) Learn more about the ideology of Reconstructionist Judaism here.
(28:49) Listen to our episode on Avot V’Imahot here!
(31:04) Or – אור – light.
(31:11) Yotzer or u’voreh choshech – יוצר אור ובורא חושך – G?d who creates light and creates the world (Sid’s translation)
(31:47) Aron kodesh – ארון קודש – ark.
(33:51) Ta’anit 8a:12