Awakening with Rabbi Ami Silver – Details, episodes & analysis

Pesach Seder Prep

Hallel-Nirtzah: The Night That Shines Like Day

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Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page.

Audio is by David Kwan.

Pesach Seder Prep

Barech: Embodying That Which We Hope For

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Audio is by David Kwan.

Pesach Seder Prep

Karpas is the true beginning of the Seder experience, when we encounter the paradox of this night - the newness and pain, rebirth and suffering, growing and drowning. Here we begin to feel the expansive space that holds the totality of this moment, and becomes the ground from which we can hope to be redeemed.

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This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute.

Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page.

Audio is by David Kwan.

The second stage of the Pesach seder offers us the opportunity to put our intentions for the night into practice. ***** Please support Rabbi Ami and this podcast by contributing here, designating “Awakening”: https://www.paypal.me/shefapodcastnetwork  This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page. Audio is by David Kwan.

Spiritual guidance and preparation for the Passover seder. Finding Seder/"order" amidst chaos, creating holiness in the here and now.

The Sages teach that the salvation of Purim has something to do with Moshe being born and dying in the month of Adar. They also teach that Purim is the day of true acceptance of Torah, when the event of Mount Sinai was ultimately fulfilled. In this very personal rendering, R' Ami explores the themes of birth and death, of traumatic separation and loss of self, and the possibility of a Torah that emerges when a self is expressed on the other side of that trauma. 

Jacob's character is one of paradox and pulling polarities. He is the youngest and the oldest, he is a man of truth and is embroiled in deceit, he is Yaakov and is Yisrael. Here we explore the competing energies that pull us in different directions, and the aspects of ourselves that hold polarized identities, and the possibility of touching a wholeness that encompasses both ends of the spectrum. ***** Please support Rabbi Ami and this podcast by contributing here, designating “Awakening”: https://www.paypal.me/shefapodcastnetwork  This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page. Audio is by David Kwan.

"Yitzchak went out to be a bush in the field" - Immersing Ourselves in the Field of Experience A brief teaching and body scan to invite us into attentive presence. ***** Please support Rabbi Ami and this podcast by contributing here, designating “Awakening”: https://www.paypal.me/shefapodcastnetwork This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page. Audio is by David Kwan.

We leave Yom Kippur with a strong awareness of our mortality, and we enter Sukkot to rejoice within our temporary home, under the passing shadows, within this temporal life.

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This podcast is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute.

Music is by Rabbi Daniel Kohn. To purchase, go to his cdbaby page.

Audio is by David Kwan.

Our liturgy speaks a lot about God as King or Melech, and even more intensively during the High Holidays. What is a Melech? How might we relate to this encounter with God when we have never stood before a King? Based on a Kabbalistic teaching on the meaning of the word Melech, this is an exploration of a way to come into contact with the visceral sense of a Melech within our own experience of being alive.