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Beneath The Surface
by Daniel Bortz
Welcome to the Beneath the Surface Podcast, hosted by the Millennial Rabbi, Daniel Bortz. Tune in as I talk to high impact people from around the world, discovering meaningful ways to live life deeper, beneath the surface.
Episodes
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Wildescast: Meditation, Happiness, and Finding God through Kabbalah
I joined Rabbi Mark Wildes on his podcast for a wide ranging discussion. In his words: There is a deep yearning for spiritual experience and meaning among the young Jewish community. Rabbi Daniel Bortz, better known as The Millennial Rabbi has gained social-media fame through his focus on...
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Sexuality & Judaism w/ High Noon
I joined the High Noon Podcast to discuss Jewish views of love, intimacy, and healthy relationships. In their description: Rabbi Daniel shares with us the mystical teachings of Jewish, the significance of marriage, and how sexuality is viewed from the Judaism perspective. He discusses the…
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Tracy Komlos: Living Your Best Life
Tracy & I discussed how to cultivate joy, the power of community building, travel, wonder, and female leadership, the highs & lows of entrepreneurship, insights into mushrooms and psychedelics, and the benefit of intention setting for abundance in your life. I hope you enjoy our conversation!
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Remi Franklin: Being Yourself & Protecting Those you Love
Remi Franklin is the founder and CEO of Light Switch Digital, helping brands create their vision and market themselves most effectively. He's a seasoned jujitsu practitioner and leads security with "Shabbat Angels" - volunteers who patrol the streets of Los Angeles to ensure safety for the Jewish...
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Experiential Judaism w/ Zevi Slavin
I joined my friend Zevi Slavin in discussion on his podcast, Seekers of Unity, where we dove into experiential Judaism, mystical experience in Jewish practice today, and why it matters
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Jesse Israel: Authentic Mindful Living
Jesse Israel is a social entrepreneur, meditation leader and former record label executive known for founding the mass meditation movement The Big Quiet. Jesse has signed multi-platinum bands like MGMT, has led some of the largest meditations in the world, teaches meditation to next-generation...
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Soul Living 30: Detailed Transcendence - The Sefirot
There are 7 weeks between the holidays of Passover & Shavuot. These days were utilized by the jewish nation – and continued on throughout history until today – as a time of self refinement & personal growth, working on each of our 7 sefirot – our emotional soul traits. Kabbalah teaches us that…
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Soul Living 29: Grounding Transcendence - The Path of Harmony
This Shabbat we read about the holy brothers Nadav & Avihu, sons of Aharon the Kohen Gadol, who enter the Temple with incense. The Torah calls it "strange fire before God, which He hadn't commanded them." As they enter, their souls leave their body. What happened here? This coming week we will...
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Rudy Rochman: Proud Jewish Living
Rudy Rochman is an important young voice in this generation of proud Jewish identity. A passionate advocate for the self determination of Jews on their ancestral homeland in Israel, Rudy works to find mutual understanding between Jews, Arabs, and all peoples in a peaceful way that will benefit…
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Dr. Edith Eger: Choosing Life
I spoke with Holocaust survivor and best-selling author Dr. Edith Eger about her resiliency and perspective during her trauma, and her visualization of a better future. How can we find light in the darkness? Can we see how in spite of our past troubles, we can find strength and live meaningful,...
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Soul Living 28: The Holy Cherubs
This week, we read about the building of the Mishkan in the desert – a home for God designed by Betzalel, as directed by Moses. But a difference of opinion arises in the order of creation: Moshe asks that the vessels be built first, and then the structure of the building. Betzalel says the...
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Micaela Ezra: How to Reveal Sacred Beauty in our Everyday Lives
I discussed with Micaela Ezra her life's journey and how she found meaning in her Jewish learning; how we can become more intentional in our lives, elevating our homes into sacred spaces, and modeling a meaningful life for our children.
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Soul Living 27: The Golden Calf
This week we read about the infamous creation and worship of the golden calf, perhaps the greatest human mistake since Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge. Throughout the Torah God implores us not to worship idols. But in today's world, this seems extremely strange: Where did a deep…
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Soul Living 26: Hidden Sweetness of Purim
Mordechai responds to Esther: "Do not think that you will escape the fate of all the Jews by being in the king's palace. For if you will remain silent at this time, relief and salvation will come to the Jews from another source, and you and the house of your father will be lost. And who knows if…
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Soul Living 25: The Humility of Moses
At that moment, God called to the soul of Moshe and said to her: "My daughter, I assigned you 120 years in Moshe's body. Now the time has come for you to depart. Emerge and do not delay." She responded: "Master of the Universe, I know that You are the Master of all spirits and the Master of all...
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Soul Living 24: Revelation at Sinai
At that moment none of the mysteries of Torah and the secrets above and below were withheld from them, for they saw the radiance of their Master's glory eye to eye [Zohar]
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Soul Living 23: Darkness & Light
"They did not see each other, and no one rose from his place for three days, but for all the children of Israel there was light in their homes." [Exodus 10:23] The darkness was tangibly felt, so powerful that those seated couldn't rise from their place. I wonder if this darkness was internal, a...
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Soul Living 22: 10 Plagues & Appreciation
Why was Moses not tasked with the carrying out the first 3 plagues in Egypt? To show his gratitude
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Soul Living 21: Moses & the Burning Bush
1 Moses was pasturing the flocks of Jethro... 2 An angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from within the thorn bush, and behold, the thorn bush was burning with fire, but the thorn bush was not being consumed. 3 So Moses said, "Let me turn now and see this great spectacle why does...
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Soul Living 20: Jacob & the Redemption
When Jacob wishes to reveal the date of the Redemption to his sons the 12 tribes, his prophetic inspiration leaves him. Sensing his worry that maybe one of his children aren't worthy to hear it, the 12 tribes exclaim the famous prayer we say twice a day to this day: "Shema Yisrael" - "Hear, our...
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Soul Living 19: Judah Approaches Joseph
Joseph teaches us to focus on the deeper plan, not on the messenger of the outer painful experiences that occur to us. Judah teaches us that the bottom line of life is not only about the spiritual level you are on, but how your decisions and behavior affect the fate of other people.
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Soul Living 18: The Beauty of Hanukkah
The Greek Hellenists believed that if something was beautiful, it was holy. The Jews believed that if something was holy, it was beautiful.
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Soul Living 17: Jacob & Esau's Reunion
The 19th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar marks the liberation from Soviet imprisonment of the founder of Chabad Chassidism, Rabbi Shneur Zalman (also known as the Alter Rebbe) in 1798. The Rebbe disliked transcending nature by breaking the physical order. He taught that if we want to uplift &...
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Soul Living 16: Rachel's Selflessness
Rachel: The advocate of the children of Israel
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Clem Leek: Music for the Soul
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi said: "Speech is the pen of the heart, melody is the quill of the soul." Many of us find a voice to the depths of our hearts through the music we listen to. In a society of much division, music unites people of all walks of life. Clem Leek is an artist whose ambient...
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Soul Living 15: The Voice of Jacob
'And Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come closer, so that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not." So Jacob drew near to Isaac his father, and he felt him, and he said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
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Ayelet Polonsky: Manifesting Reality
I hosted a live conversation with Ayelet Polonsky, the Manifestation Mentor, just in time for the new Hebrew month of Kislev - the month of miracles where darkness is turned into light. We discussed how we can co-create with God to bring down a positive new future for ourselves and the world...
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Soul Living 14: The Days of Abraham
This week's Torah portion focuses on the passing of our Matriarch Sarah, the last years of Abraham, and the marriage of their son Isaac with Rebecca. What are the deeper life lessons embedded in these events that can help us infuse every moment of our lives with greater meaning?
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Joshua Church: 21st Century Spirituality
I joined my friend Joshua Church in discussion on his podcast, Find the Others, where we dove into my story and spiritual awakening, explored the origin and true meaning behind some common jewish customs and practices, and discussed spirituality, religion, and happiness in today's day and age.
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Soul Living 13: Loving Kindness & Discernment
Each soul includes 7 divine emotional traits. The first one is "Chesed" – loving kindness, the right side, outward focused, was embodied completely to the max by our forefather Abraham. The next trait is "Gevurah" – discipline or strength, the left side, inward focused, symbolized by our…
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Meditation Series: Cheshvan & Inner Strength
We're moving now from the light & warmth of Summer and the holiness & inspiration of the High Holidays into the shorter days, longer nights and cold winters, with less socializing & movement. Not to mention the effects of Corona and Quarantine. As we transition from the external high of Tishrei...
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Meditation Series: Garden of Eden
"And God Blew into his nostrils a living soul." [Genesis 2:7] Take a deep breath in and inhale all the love that your Divine Source has for you in giving you that air to fill your lungs to live. And breathe out all of the fear, anxiety, pain, loneliness, and anger inside. God has your back and...
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Soul Living 12: Living Torah
The holiday of "Shemini Atzeret" & "Simchat Torah" marks the completion of the yearlong reading of the Torah Cycle & beginning again from Bereishit – Genesis. The 11th-century sage, Rashi, explains the holiday (based on Leviticus 23:36): [God says to Israel,] "I have detained you [to remain] with...
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Soul Living 11: Simple Melodies
The 18th Day of the Hebrew month of Elul marks the birth of Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shem Tov and the Alter Rebbe, founders of Hassidism and Chabad Hassidism respectively. Here's my favorite story to illustrate one of the Baal Shem Tov's view of the world
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Soul Living 10: Standing Before You
Focus less on who you've been and more on who you can become, and who you want to have a relationship with
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Soul Living 9: Being in the Game
To nurture love in any meaningful relationship you have to be fully present and focused in the moment. And it takes time & effort for the connection to develop into something real.
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Azi Jankovic: The Power of Insight & the Feminine
~ I was invited as a guest on Dr. Azi's 'Within Us' podcast ~ We hear the word 'insight' in the world of meditation, mindfulness, personal growth, and spirituality. But, what is it, and how can we utilize its power in our lives? There are deep explanations in Kabbalah of what 'insight' is, how we...
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Soul Living 8: Spiritualizing the Physical
When Rabbi Yaakov Mordechai Poltova was on his deathbed, he remarked: "I would give up 40 years of iskafya [spiritual self-refinement] just for the chance to do one more mitzvah." When word of this reached his close friend the Rebbe Rashab, he said: "Indeed he's right. But it takes 40 years of...
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Soul Living 7: Warmth Internalized
"I understood a powerful insight on my journey here. I came to realize that we can be surrounded by warmth, but if we fail to internalize it into our beings, we will remain cold."
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Soul Living 6: God's Deepest Desire
Why did God create? "God had a desire to have a home in the lower world." [Midrash Tanchumah, Naso 16] But if this world is full of so much darkness, and we humans are so flawed, why would the Infinite Divine's deepest desire be to dwell amongst us?
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Soul Living 5: Temple Interface of Connection
Why are we focusing our time and devotion these days towards petitioning God for the rebuilding of a structure in the old city of Jerusalem? Shouldn't our energy and emotion instead be in asking God for a cure to all the ills of the world? Our Sages teach: "A human being is a miniature world."...
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Soul Living 4: Why We Miss Our Temple
Today, the 17th day of the Hebrew month "Tammuz", marks the beginning of what's known as the "3 weeks" - a period of mourning commemorating the destruction of the first & second holy Temples in Jerusalem. How does this ancient house of God affect my life today in the twenty-first century?
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Soul Living 3: The Nature of Movement
We live in a wondrous universe full of opportunities and lessons to connect to the Infinite. Job says: "From my flesh I see God." This means we can learn about God and about our lives from every single thing we see. Nature, the human body, galaxies, emotions, dreams—all can help us in…
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Soul Living 2: Real Leadership
In this week's Torah portion we read of a Jewish leader named Korach who led a large protest against the leadership of Moses. Once the Torah had been given on Sinai, Korach & others reasoned that everyone was equal, since a Mitzvah-Divine commandment connects each person directly to God, what…
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Soul Living 1: Seeing The Good
In the Torah portion 'Shelach' 12 spies are sent to scout out the land of Israel, and they return with conflicting reports. Were they looking at the same land? At the same enemy? How could they have perceived the situation in such differing ways? It all stems from how we see ourselves and the…
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David Yarus: Purpose, Abundance, and Good Vibes
David Yarus is the founder of JSwipe - the largest Jewish dating app, with more than a million users worldwide. He also leads mllnnl - a creative social agency with clients that include Birthright Israel & Hillel International. Join David and I as we dive into the millennial Jewish experience,...
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Reb Simcha Weinstein: A Millennial Journey
This was a lot of fun! I spoke with hilarious British Rabbi Simcha Weinstein - Author of "Up Up & Oy Vey" about the Jewish themes within the stories of Comic Book superheroes & leader of the Chabad house at Pratt University in Brooklyn - about my life's journey. He also put me to the test to see…
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Living in a Unique Age
We delve into my personal journey and how that led me into education and relating spirituality with a younger audience community. We then move into discussing this unique time we live in where the Christian community is supporting and helping Israel and the Jewish people today and how important...
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Ethan Davidson: Paving Your Own Journey
Ethan Daniel Davidson is a musician who toured the country & has released 10 albums to date. His family owned the Detroit Pistons basketball team, Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team, and the Palace of Auburn Hills stadium. After his father Bill created the William Davidson Foundation, Ethan has…
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Welcome to the Beneath the Surface Podcast, hosted by the Millennial Rabbi, Daniel Bortz. Tune in as I talk to high impact people from around the world, discovering meaningful ways to live life deeper, beneath the surface.
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