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Rabbi Sandra: Making Connections
by Rabbi Sandra Lawson
The Musings of a Rabbi: Jewish Wisdom for Today’s World rabbisandra.substack.com
Episodes
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Live Podcast: North Carolina Elections
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Torah: Open Your Hand
I’ve been thinking about money and what our money says about our priorities. This week, more than $60 million in outside spending poured into a single U.S. Senate primary in Michigan. More than $60 million. That number has stayed with me. Because imagine bringing that same level of urgency to...
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What the Fauci Hearing Reminded Me Of
Congress has every right to investigate what happened during COVID. But what I watched in the Fauci hearing felt like a public shaming. I grew up in the AIDS era. I remember the silence, the fear, the people we lost. Maybe that impacts how I saw the hearing yesterday And sadly it reminded me of a...
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Birthright Citizenship: Who Belongs?
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Why Are We So Afraid of Change?
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Rights, Democracy, & Decency Under Assault: A Jewish Conversation with Debra Shushan, Rabbi Sandra Lawson, & Stephanie Wilson
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We Are More Committed to Supremacy Than Democracy
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Kedoshim 19: The Holiness Code as Organizing Document
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Passover in a time of selective freedom
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Torah: Fracture and Covenant
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Some Torah: Tetzaveh: Bring the Oil, Clothe Them in Dignity
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Liberation Is Disorienting
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Let Our People Go: Parashat Bo and Minneapolis
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Conversation with Beth Gendler Executive Director of the Jewish Community Action in Minnesota
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Martin Luther King Jr., Minneapolis, and the Refusal to Be Silent
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When Power Refuses to Know: Shemot and State Violence Parashat Shemot
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Her Name Was Renee Nicole Good
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Exodus as Liberation Theology
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We are the Mixed Multitude
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Live with Rabbi Sandra: Torah Teaching — Vayeshev
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ADL’s Abdication of Its Civil Rights Mission with Rabbi Sandra Lawson
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In Conversation with Rabbi Sandra Lawson
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Justice and Memory: Emmett Till and Parashat Shoftim
This week we read Shoftim, and right at the center of the portion comes one of the most powerful imperatives in all of Torah: Tzedek, tzedek tirdof — “Justice, justice shall you pursue.” The repetition is intentional. The rabbis remind us that the Torah never wastes a word. Justice must be…
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Did you know that we blow the Shofar in the morning during the month of Elul.
It’s a spiritual wake-up call. Think of it like an alarm clock for the soul. Get full access to Rabbi Sandra: Making Connections at rabbisandra.substack.com/subscribe
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Did you know Judaism sets aside an entire month to get ready for the High Holidays?
That month is called Elul. Elul comes right before Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur—the holiest days of the Jewish year. Instead of just showing up to synagogue and hoping for the best, our tradition says: prepare your heart. Transformation doesn’t happen in an instant. It takes intention, practice,...
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Let’s discuss Jubilee with Amanda Seales
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Staying in the Room
Progressive Jews must stay in relationship with other progressive people and confront antisemitism when it happens. My Musings is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Rabbi Sandra: Making...
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Losing a Generation
I made this video to expand a little and talk about what I wrote in Losing a Generation… Also, please forgive Stella’s snoring in the background. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: So last week I wrote a Substack piece titled it basically Losing a Generation. And I'll add it here, and I want to talk about it a...
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Disagreeing Better: Uncovering the Secret of Ancient Jewish Debates
Hello and welcome to our first episode of Soulful Shalom. Thank you so much for joining us today. My Jewish values inform how move through the world and I believe they can be a wonderful guide to help anyone regardless if you are Jewish I believe Jewish values are universal and can help everyone....
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Soulful Shalom
Soulful Shalom: a Podcast Exploring Judaism & Jewish Values and Jewish wisdom in just minutes. Each episode, I'll share a bit of wisdom that comes from the Jewish tradition. We will touch on history, ethics and other pieces of wisdom and I can assure you it will be relatable today. I'm recording...
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Episode 68: Minutes of Torah: Naso, Forgiveness and Restitution
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Episode 67: Minutes of Torah. Kedoshim: We Are Holy Beings
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Episode 66: Minutes of Torah: It’s Passover Y’all! Time to Clean
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Episode 65: Minutes of Torah. Pekudei: Be Strong
The Cloud is a guiding force for the Israelites and for all of us Get full access to Rabbi Sandra: Making Connections at rabbisandra.substack.com/subscribe
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Episode 64: Minutes of Torah. Yitro: Revelation
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Episode 63: Hineni (Here I Am) - Minutes of Torah: A Hanukkah Story
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Episode 62: Hineni (Here I Am): My Authentic Identity
On November 1, 2018 I gave a talk on Authentic Identities at Elon University, where I serve as the Campus Rabbi. The talk was shortly after the horrible events in Kentucky and Pittsburgh. I shared my story and journey of becoming a Jew and a rabbi. I talked about the racism I face in the Jewish...
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Episode 61: Minutes of Torah - Vayishlach: A Wrestling Match
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Episode 60: Minutes of Torah - Toledot - Rosh Hodesh - Rebecca Cried Out to God and God Responded
In honor of Rosh Hodesh. I am dedicating this week's Minutes of Torah to all the women who have felt silenced Get full access to Rabbi Sandra: Making Connections at rabbisandra.substack.com/subscribe
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Episode 59: Jewish Prayer - Asher Yatzer - Thank you God for Making Me Exactly Who I Am
Welcome to Episode 59 of Hineni Jewish Prayer. Today we will focus on the prayer that is often called the bathroom blessing. Thanking God for allowing one to do their business in the morning. I don't see this blessing as simple a bathroom blessing. I see it as a blessing thanking God for creating...
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Episode 58: Minutes of Torah - Chayei Sarah: Building a World of Love After a Week of Violence
Welcome to this episode of Minutes of Torah. This past week has been hard for many of us and I am dedicating this podcast to speak about the violence in our country. Olam Hesed Yibaneh -We will build this world of love Get full access to Rabbi Sandra: Making Connections at...
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Episode 57: Minutes of Torah - Vayeira: Faith and Justice
This week we are in the Torah Portion Vayeira. My plan for today was to continue our conversation on faith but something jumped out at me as I was reading this week’s torah portion. So today we will talk about faith and Justice. Get full access to Rabbi Sandra: Making Connections at...
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Episode 56: Minutes of Torah - Lech Lecha: Going Out on Faith
This week we have another story about going out on faith. This week we read Torah portion Lech Lecha which means to Go forth or let’s Go. Get full access to Rabbi Sandra: Making Connections at rabbisandra.substack.com/subscribe
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Episode 55: Minutes of Torah: Noah and Faith
This week we enter into the Torah Portion Noach where God tells Noah to build an enormous Ark. God instructs Noah to build this Ark because God is going to destroy the world with a massive flood. Now keep in mind that Noah probably lives nowhere near water and I’m sure he thought “This is a Crazy...
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Episode 54: Minutes of Torah - Bereishit: Created in the Image of God
This week’s torah portion is all about creation; creation of the world and all things that dwell on the earth. We learn that Human beings are created B'tzelem Elohim, in the image of God. Get full access to Rabbi Sandra: Making Connections at rabbisandra.substack.com/subscribe
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Episode 53: Minutes of Torah - Balak: Blessing the Stranger
In this week’s Torah portion Balak. Fear of the other is alive and well. The text opens with a fearful king dreading the arrival of the Israelites to his land of Moab. He tells the elders in Number 22:4 what he believes about the Israelites he says “Now this horde will lick clean all that is…
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Episode 52: Minutes of Torah-Chukat: Asylum Seekers
One of the things that I love about the weekly Torah portion is that so often when I need a passage to speak to me about what is happening in our world today the words are there on the page and they jump out out at me. This week we are in the Torah portion Chukat. Get full access to Rabbi Sandra:...
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Episode 51: The Omer and Me.
Every Spring we begin counting the Omer on the second night of Passover. What is an Omer? The Omer is a sheaf or a measure of barley or wheat. The Omer is also the name for the 7 week period of time between Passover and and the holiday of Shavuot. On Passover we celebrate our freedom from slavery...
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Episode 50 Jewish Prayer Elohai Neshama God Don’t Make Junk
Episode 50 Jewish Prayer Elohai Nehsama God Don't Make Junk Get full access to Rabbi Sandra: Making Connections at rabbisandra.substack.com/subscribe
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Episode 49: Minutes of Torah - Passover A Time of Our Freedom
This coming shabbat is the start of passover we also call this holiday zman cherutainu - זְמָן חֵרוּתֵנוּ - a time of our freedom. Get full access to Rabbi Sandra: Making Connections at rabbisandra.substack.com/subscribe
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