Survival Guide for a Spiritual Wilderness: The Torah of Miriam
In this challenging time when many feel alienated from traditional Jewish spaces, Survival Guide for a Spiritual Wilderness offers a spiritual home for listeners seeking to connect Jewish ancestral feminist wisdom with their own svara (moral intuition). Each episode of this limited series delves into a different story of our ancestor Miriam, illuminating her mystical teachings and offering practical tools for navigating and flourishing in personal or political spiritual wildernesses. This podcast charts a radical, fresh Jewish path for its listeners and the world.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2025
Episode 5: Be’er Miriam - The Well of Miriam
- You can find the account of the people at the sea and the songs of Miriam and Moses in Exodus Chapter 14 and 15. Nachshon is named as the first person into the sea in the Talmud, Sotah 37a.
- Maor VaShe…
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Episode 4: Shiru L’Adonai - Sing Right [the F*ck] Now
- You can find the account of the people at the sea and the songs of Miriam and Moses in Exodus Chapter 14 and 15. Nachshon is named as the first person into the sea in the Talmud, Sotah 37a.
- Maor VaShe…
Episode 3: Tehora He - Inviolable Goodness
- The concept of Seventy Faces of Torah appears in many ancient sources including Bamidbar Rabbah 13:16
- The excerpt of the song Elokai Neshama Shenatata that you heard can be found in its entirety here:…
Episode 2: Chakeh-Mah - Wait for What
- You can learn more about Rabbi Jericho’s experience leaving ultra-Orthodoxy in their memoir Cut Me Loose, under their old name, Leah Vincent.
- Reb Zalman on spiritual vitamins here. With gratitude to S…
Episode 1: Spiritual Chutzpah
- The idea that Miriam has unique Torah to teach us is rooted in a passage in the Zohar (Shlach 12:116) that describes Miriam’s celestial yeshiva in which people learn the workings of the universe.
- The …
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In a time when many feel alienated from traditional Jewish spaces, this series serves as a spiritual home for listeners who seek to connect Jewish ancestral feminist wisdom with our own svara (moral …