All Episodes
Real Rabbi NYC — 176 episodes
Pivoting, Fun in War...? (and Ki Tissa)
Rebels, Rule-Haters & Breakers
Cracks and Leaks
I Can't Believe I Went (and the Joseph Story)
Multivalence & Double Exposure (Ki Tetzei)
Judging, Returning, Repairing (Shoftim)
Re'eh & Completely Unprepared
Pockets of Light Among the Ashes (Eikev)
Be Comforted, Again, My People
The Irritating Pearls of Humanity
At its Worst, At its Best (Tazria-Metzora)
Finding the Holy in the Ordinary, Grieving Inwardly, & Shemini
All Our Hopes, Dreams, & Prayers...into the Ashes?
Creating Order in Systems Amidst Chaos & VaYikra
Binding Chains & Pekudei
Mirrors, What Might a Jewish Communist Funeral Look Like, & Vayakhel
Masquerades & Ki Tissa
Angel or A-Hole & Tetsaveh
A Brush With Death & T'rumah
Enlarging and Shrinking our Hearts & Mishpatim
In the Image of God, For the Love of God, & Yitro
Judaism, Loving Your Enemies, & Beshalakh
On Sourdough, On Longevity, On Privilege, On Seeing, On Enslavement, On Choices, On Being (too) Polite, & On Shevat
The Best Deal Ever
From Bitterness and Darkness to Thanks, Dreams & Light
Flooded by Feelings & The Soft Light of the Moon
Wherein Lies the Blessing? (Yom Kippur, V'Zot Habracha, Tears From the Sky)
A Little Torah, a Lot of Tears, & Yom Kippur
Trust the Love & Nitzavim-Vayelekh
The Tension of Living & Ki Tavo
Ki Tetzei?
Hidden in Plain Sight & Shoftim
Swim Towards the Shark & R'eih
Whistling Swans & Eikev
Two Weeks in a Row & Va'etkhanan
Cat Ladies, Hard Facts, & Devarim
Say It To My Face & Mattot-Masei
Trump Anointed (& Pinhas)
Sexually Speaking, Idols, Dreams, & Balak
The Surprise of Faith & Hukkat
The Potential for Celebration & Korakh
Throwing Phones & Shlakh Lekha
All Hearts and Roses (not!) & B'ha'alot'kha
Hoping for Inspiration for Shavuos, & Naso
A Righteous Fight, Done with Hate, & Bamidbar
The Whispers of B'khukotai
At Least Try, & B'har
Nothing New Except You People & Emor
Two Weddings, Campus Protests, Holocaust Remembrance Day, & Kedoshim (You Know What I Mean?)
Expansiveness & Akharey Mot
Difficult Conversations, A Passover Sacrifice & Metzora
A Serious and Total Eclipse of the Heart, Passover Cleaning, & Tazria
Just a Poem (and a little bit more) & Shemini
Lessons in Bravery from Death & Tzav
Come Sunday, Be Present, and Vayikra
Heresy; Create Tension, Get Attention, & P’kudey
A Lavish Ukrainian Wedding, an Owl, and Vayakhel
Stretching, Late to the Game, & Ki Tissa
Aliens, Whales, & Tetzaveh
Burying a Treasure & T’rumah
Sapphires Under God’s Feet & Mishpatim
Fantasy and Yitro
Cowardice, Bravery, & B’shalakh
Six Feet Under & Tevet
Thanksgiving Stuffing & Kislev
Bitter Heshvan Living Up To Its Name, & Light in the Darkness
Two Weddings, a Funeral, and an Unveiling
God Willing (Ha’azinu)
Newer-Truer vs. Oldy-Moldy (Nitzavim/Vayelikh)
A Hard Pill to Swallow & Ki Tavo
Zero Expectations & Ki Teitzei
Go Woke, Go Broke, Stone Throwing, Happy Elul, & Shoftim
R’eih and The Choices We Make
A Whack On the Head & Eikev
God is a Communist (Tisha B’av & Va’etchanan)
Which Way Do We Look?
On the Way (Matot-Masei & Am I Worthy?)
All About Magic (Hukkat & Balak)
Lords, Dukes, Kings, Gods, & Korakh
Weddings & Blazers; Fringes & Assumptions and Shlakh Lekha
Fire & Brimstone, and Lost in Torah
New Territory, Misogyny, Naso, B’ha’a’lot’cha.
Please Count Me In & Bamidbar
Walk With Me & B’har/B’khukotai
Blemishing Judaism & Emor
An Imperfect Cup of Coffee (Acharei Mot/Kedoshim
Solitude, Loneliness, & Tazria-Metsora
Bucket Brigades and Sh’mini
Without Bathroom Breaks? (Tzav)
Tree Hugging, Rudeness, & Vayikra
Not just afterthoughts on ki Tissa! Vayakhel/pekudei & vanity and social media
Of Life and Limb, Stinky Messes, and Ki Tissa
Clear Drawers, Jumbled Rubber Bands, Empty Bells, and Tetzaveh
The Heart of the Matter & T’rumah
Bubbles & Mishpatim
Revelation, the Neurosis of Yitro, & Ten Utterances
Zigzags, Song, Split Seas & Split Minds of Beshalakh
Imposter Syndrome, a GPS, and Bo
Shortness of Breath, Hearing Problems, & Va-era
Keeping Things Real & Sh’mot
Beginnings, Endings, Whole-Hearted Walking, and Vayechi
The Truth of Your Life & Vayigash
Colors, Divided Souls, Higher Selves, & Mikkeitz
Dreams, A Land of Fear, and Vayeshev
And He Sent; Vayishlakh
Rock Bottom & Va’yetzei
Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes & Toldot
Old Man Rabbi & Chayei Sarah
Darkness, Light, and Va’yera
Frum Jewish Black Boy & Lekh Lekha
Numbness, Knowing, & Noah
A Baby and B’reishit
A Simcha & V’zot Ha-Bracha
Don’t Change/Surely Change & Ha-Azinu
Who Am I To Judge? (Vayeilekh & Yom Kippur)
Tears of Gratitude & Nitzavim
Milk, Honey, & Blessings (Ki Tavo)
Till Death Do Us Part, Ki Teitzei, and Fences
From Bloody Guilt to Mazel Tov & Shoftim
Seeing With Generous Eyes & R’ei
Look in the Mirror (Eikev)
Panic, Prayer, & Va’etkhanan
Words, Miracles, Life Expectancy (and other things)
Russian Dolls, Mattot-Mas’ei, and Tisha b’Av
God’s Image in Pinchas?
Curses to Blessings & Balaam
Laws of the Land: Hukkat
Hollywood & Korach
Unthinkable & Shlach Lecha
Jade and joy: b’ha’alotcha
Miami Vice; B’midbar
Love the Earth (and moss): B’khukotai
My People, My Mountain: B’Har
The Rejects of Emor
Cleanliness, Godliness & K’doshim
The Promise of the Land
Dayenu and Cancel Culture
Scrubbing It Away & Metzora
Spoiled Child, Birthdays, & Tazria
Deaf, Blind and Dumb? (Shemini)
Turning it Upside Down (Tzav)
How do we?? (Va’Yikra)
Scary Good Girls & P’kudei
That Can’t Be All (Vayak’hel)
I asked for rags? (Ki Tissa)
Bells on their robes and blood on their hands: Tetzaveh
Carving out the gifts of T’rumah
A wedding stuck in time and Mishpatim
Snakes or toilet brushes? And Yitro
Toilet Bowls and Walls of Water
Come into the Darkness: Bo
How Whole is Your Heart? (Va-era)
Oy! (Sh’mot & Solstice)
A Reason for Jubilation: Vayigash
Waking Up: Miketz
Prostitutes, Rings and Va-Yeishev
Yes to the Dress? (Vayishlach)
Need I Explain?? (Vayeitzei)
Broken Yolks and Toldot
Caves, chaos, and caving in: Chayei Sarah
Laughing at Angels: Va-Yera
Entitlement, Majesty and Lekh Lekha
Oh, No, Noah!
Was it Good or Was it Bad? (Breishit)
What’s in Your Head? (Sukkos & V’zot Ha’bracha
Push-Up Competition and Yom Kippur/Ha’azinu
A Plumbing Issue: Rosh Hashanah & Va-Yeilekh
Who By Fire?
Don’t F** Up; It’s a Commandment (Ki Tavo)
Starving Children? Where? (Eikev)
Enough Already! (Va’etchanan)
F & M: D’varim & Tisha B’Av
Attitudes, Platitudes & the Promise of Bliss: Mattot-Masei
Joie de Vivre: not so Pinchas
Real Rabbi NYC (Trailer)
Great Story (maybe not true): Balak