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Real Rabbi NYC — 176 episodes

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1

Pivoting, Fun in War...? (and Ki Tissa)

2

Rebels, Rule-Haters & Breakers

3

Cracks and Leaks

4

I Can't Believe I Went (and the Joseph Story)

5

Multivalence & Double Exposure (Ki Tetzei)

6

Judging, Returning, Repairing (Shoftim)

7

Re'eh & Completely Unprepared

8

Pockets of Light Among the Ashes (Eikev)

9

Be Comforted, Again, My People

10

The Irritating Pearls of Humanity

11

At its Worst, At its Best (Tazria-Metzora)

12

Finding the Holy in the Ordinary, Grieving Inwardly, & Shemini

13

All Our Hopes, Dreams, & Prayers...into the Ashes?

14

Creating Order in Systems Amidst Chaos & VaYikra

15

Binding Chains & Pekudei

16

Mirrors, What Might a Jewish Communist Funeral Look Like, & Vayakhel

17

Masquerades & Ki Tissa

18

Angel or A-Hole & Tetsaveh

19

A Brush With Death & T'rumah

20

Enlarging and Shrinking our Hearts & Mishpatim

21

In the Image of God, For the Love of God, & Yitro

22

Judaism, Loving Your Enemies, & Beshalakh

23

On Sourdough, On Longevity, On Privilege, On Seeing, On Enslavement, On Choices, On Being (too) Polite, & On Shevat

24

The Best Deal Ever

25

From Bitterness and Darkness to Thanks, Dreams & Light

26

Flooded by Feelings & The Soft Light of the Moon

27

Wherein Lies the Blessing? (Yom Kippur, V'Zot Habracha, Tears From the Sky)

28

A Little Torah, a Lot of Tears, & Yom Kippur

29

Trust the Love & Nitzavim-Vayelekh

30

The Tension of Living & Ki Tavo

31

Ki Tetzei?

32

Hidden in Plain Sight & Shoftim

33

Swim Towards the Shark & R'eih

34

Whistling Swans & Eikev

35

Two Weeks in a Row & Va'etkhanan

36

Cat Ladies, Hard Facts, & Devarim

37

Say It To My Face & Mattot-Masei

38

Trump Anointed (& Pinhas)

39

Sexually Speaking, Idols, Dreams, & Balak

40

The Surprise of Faith & Hukkat

41

The Potential for Celebration & Korakh

42

Throwing Phones & Shlakh Lekha

43

All Hearts and Roses (not!) & B'ha'alot'kha

44

Hoping for Inspiration for Shavuos, & Naso

45

A Righteous Fight, Done with Hate, & Bamidbar

46

The Whispers of B'khukotai

47

At Least Try, & B'har

48

Nothing New Except You People & Emor

49

Two Weddings, Campus Protests, Holocaust Remembrance Day, & Kedoshim (You Know What I Mean?)

50

Expansiveness & Akharey Mot

51

Difficult Conversations, A Passover Sacrifice & Metzora

52

A Serious and Total Eclipse of the Heart, Passover Cleaning, & Tazria

53

Just a Poem (and a little bit more) & Shemini

54

Lessons in Bravery from Death & Tzav

55

Come Sunday, Be Present, and Vayikra

56

Heresy; Create Tension, Get Attention, & P’kudey

57

A Lavish Ukrainian Wedding, an Owl, and Vayakhel

58

Stretching, Late to the Game, & Ki Tissa

59

Aliens, Whales, & Tetzaveh

60

Burying a Treasure & T’rumah

61

Sapphires Under God’s Feet & Mishpatim

62

Fantasy and Yitro

63

Cowardice, Bravery, & B’shalakh

64

Six Feet Under & Tevet

65

Thanksgiving Stuffing & Kislev

66

Bitter Heshvan Living Up To Its Name, & Light in the Darkness

67

Two Weddings, a Funeral, and an Unveiling

68

God Willing (Ha’azinu)

69

Newer-Truer vs. Oldy-Moldy (Nitzavim/Vayelikh)

70

A Hard Pill to Swallow & Ki Tavo

71

Zero Expectations & Ki Teitzei

72

Go Woke, Go Broke, Stone Throwing, Happy Elul, & Shoftim

73

R’eih and The Choices We Make

74

A Whack On the Head & Eikev

75

God is a Communist (Tisha B’av & Va’etchanan)

76

Which Way Do We Look?

77

On the Way (Matot-Masei & Am I Worthy?)

78

All About Magic (Hukkat & Balak)

79

Lords, Dukes, Kings, Gods, & Korakh

80

Weddings & Blazers; Fringes & Assumptions and Shlakh Lekha

81

Fire & Brimstone, and Lost in Torah

82

New Territory, Misogyny, Naso, B’ha’a’lot’cha.

83

Please Count Me In & Bamidbar

84

Walk With Me & B’har/B’khukotai

85

Blemishing Judaism & Emor

86

An Imperfect Cup of Coffee (Acharei Mot/Kedoshim

87

Solitude, Loneliness, & Tazria-Metsora

88

Bucket Brigades and Sh’mini

89

Without Bathroom Breaks? (Tzav)

90

Tree Hugging, Rudeness, & Vayikra

91

Not just afterthoughts on ki Tissa! Vayakhel/pekudei & vanity and social media

92

Of Life and Limb, Stinky Messes, and Ki Tissa

93

Clear Drawers, Jumbled Rubber Bands, Empty Bells, and Tetzaveh

94

The Heart of the Matter & T’rumah

95

Bubbles & Mishpatim

96

Revelation, the Neurosis of Yitro, & Ten Utterances

97

Zigzags, Song, Split Seas & Split Minds of Beshalakh

98

Imposter Syndrome, a GPS, and Bo

99

Shortness of Breath, Hearing Problems, & Va-era

100

Keeping Things Real & Sh’mot

101

Beginnings, Endings, Whole-Hearted Walking, and Vayechi

102

The Truth of Your Life & Vayigash

103

Colors, Divided Souls, Higher Selves, & Mikkeitz

104

Dreams, A Land of Fear, and Vayeshev

105

And He Sent; Vayishlakh

106

Rock Bottom & Va’yetzei

107

Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes & Toldot

108

Old Man Rabbi & Chayei Sarah

109

Darkness, Light, and Va’yera

110

Frum Jewish Black Boy & Lekh Lekha

111

Numbness, Knowing, & Noah

112

A Baby and B’reishit

113

A Simcha & V’zot Ha-Bracha

114

Don’t Change/Surely Change & Ha-Azinu

115

Who Am I To Judge? (Vayeilekh & Yom Kippur)

116

Tears of Gratitude & Nitzavim

117

Milk, Honey, & Blessings (Ki Tavo)

118

Till Death Do Us Part, Ki Teitzei, and Fences

119

From Bloody Guilt to Mazel Tov & Shoftim

120

Seeing With Generous Eyes & R’ei

121

Look in the Mirror (Eikev)

122

Panic, Prayer, & Va’etkhanan

123

Words, Miracles, Life Expectancy (and other things)

124

Russian Dolls, Mattot-Mas’ei, and Tisha b’Av

125

God’s Image in Pinchas?

126

Curses to Blessings & Balaam

127

Laws of the Land: Hukkat

128

Hollywood & Korach

129

Unthinkable & Shlach Lecha

130

Jade and joy: b’ha’alotcha

131

Miami Vice; B’midbar

132

Love the Earth (and moss): B’khukotai

133

My People, My Mountain: B’Har

134

The Rejects of Emor

135

Cleanliness, Godliness & K’doshim

136

The Promise of the Land

137

Dayenu and Cancel Culture

138

Scrubbing It Away & Metzora

139

Spoiled Child, Birthdays, & Tazria

140

Deaf, Blind and Dumb? (Shemini)

141

Turning it Upside Down (Tzav)

142

How do we?? (Va’Yikra)

143

Scary Good Girls & P’kudei

144

That Can’t Be All (Vayak’hel)

145

I asked for rags? (Ki Tissa)

146

Bells on their robes and blood on their hands: Tetzaveh

147

Carving out the gifts of T’rumah

148

A wedding stuck in time and Mishpatim

149

Snakes or toilet brushes? And Yitro

150

Toilet Bowls and Walls of Water

151

Come into the Darkness: Bo

152

How Whole is Your Heart? (Va-era)

153

Oy! (Sh’mot & Solstice)

154

A Reason for Jubilation: Vayigash

155

Waking Up: Miketz

156

Prostitutes, Rings and Va-Yeishev

157

Yes to the Dress? (Vayishlach)

158

Need I Explain?? (Vayeitzei)

159

Broken Yolks and Toldot

160

Caves, chaos, and caving in: Chayei Sarah

161

Laughing at Angels: Va-Yera

162

Entitlement, Majesty and Lekh Lekha

163

Oh, No, Noah!

164

Was it Good or Was it Bad? (Breishit)

165

What’s in Your Head? (Sukkos & V’zot Ha’bracha

166

Push-Up Competition and Yom Kippur/Ha’azinu

167

A Plumbing Issue: Rosh Hashanah & Va-Yeilekh

168

Who By Fire?

169

Don’t F** Up; It’s a Commandment (Ki Tavo)

170

Starving Children? Where? (Eikev)

171

Enough Already! (Va’etchanan)

172

F & M: D’varim & Tisha B’Av

173

Attitudes, Platitudes & the Promise of Bliss: Mattot-Masei

174

Joie de Vivre: not so Pinchas

175

Real Rabbi NYC (Trailer)

176

Great Story (maybe not true): Balak