Weekly Meditation with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
In these stormy times, take a few minutes each week to find your balance and nourish yourself with wisdom from Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, one of America’s foremost spiritual leaders.
Join IJS for a “Weekly Meditation with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl,” a short, weekly podcast featuring a brief, accessible, and engaging teaching and meditation based on the weekly Torah portion, an upcoming Jewish holiday, or wisdom from Jewish tradition.
In just a few minutes each week, Rabbi Buchdahl, Senior Rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City, will help you pause, breathe, and find balance and clarity to weather today’s storms and meet our personal and collective challenges with Jewish wisdom. Whether you are in your car, on a walk, or at home, join us to learn, nourish your spirit, and deepen your practice.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 31
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Until We Meet Again: The Jewish Art of Sacred Goodbyes
For this, the final episode of this podcast, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores the Jewish approach to goodbyes, revealing how Hebrew farewells like lehitra'ot ("until we meet again") and hadran alach ("…
00:27:03 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
The Wheat Will Grow Again
Join Rabbi Angela Buchdahl for a short teaching and meditation for finding hope amidst tragedy. In this episode, she weaves together the story of a young Israeli scientist, Zechariah Haber, who was k…
00:27:17 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
Lift Up the Head of Every Person
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores why Jewish tradition forbids directly counting people, requiring census-taking through numbering coins instead of individuals. She connects this ancien…
00:26:58 |
Thu 29 May 2025
To Everything, There Is a Season
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores the emotional complexity of life transitions through her experience at her son's college graduation, reminding us that even joyful milestones can evoke…
00:28:04 |
Thu 22 May 2025
Exposing the Good
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl reflects on the emotional return of Edan Alexander, the last American living hostage, and the longing it stirred for hope and good news in dark times. She explo…
00:26:49 |
Thu 15 May 2025
What’s in a Name?
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl leads a teaching and meditation on the power of naming. She explores how ancestral memory can connect generations across faiths and cultures, highlighting the d…
00:27:11 |
Thu 08 May 2025
Living in our Bodies
Join Rabbi Nicole Auerbach as she leads a guided meditation focused on bodily awareness and appreciation, to notice pleasant sensations as part of the Jewish practice of counting the Omer between Pas…
00:29:27 |
Thu 01 May 2025
Eating as Mindfulness Practice
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl reflects on the end of Passover and the spiritual significance of food in Jewish tradition, interpreting the Torah's ancient laws of kashrut as a contemporary g…
00:28:11 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Passover Meditation: Leaving Egypt
In this special Passover episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl gently guides us into presence through breath and gratitude, reflecting on the spiritual meaning of Mitzraim—the "narrow places" we each carry.…
00:25:54 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Time Traveling to Other Seders
In this episode for preparing for Passover, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores the unique Jewish concept that there is "no before or after in the Torah" and how this perspective transforms our experience…
00:28:19 |
Thu 10 Apr 2025
Conversation in the Womb: A Parable of Life After Birth
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores how endings simultaneously serve as beginnings. She highlights the connection between the Hebrew words for "womb" and "compassion," suggesting that com…
00:27:28 |
Thu 03 Apr 2025
Learning to Sit with Not Knowing
In this episode of Weekly Meditation, guest teacher Rabbi Nicole Auerbach leads a mindfulness practice centered on embracing uncertainty. Drawing inspiration from the Hebrew month of Nisan and the Is…
00:26:22 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Letting Go of False Idols
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl examines the story of the Golden Calf to explore why we create idols during times of insecurity and fear. Through guided breathing and reflection, she helps us …
00:26:57 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Unmasking Ourselves: A Purim Meditation
In this episode, as we approach Purim, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores the concept of masks, connecting the holiday's traditions to our deeper psychological tendencies to hide our true selves. Drawing…
00:27:30 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
Fred Astaire as Esther, The Hidden Jew
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores the Purim story through the lens of identity, fear, and assimilation. Reflecting on the hidden nature of Esther’s Jewishness—and an unexpected connecti…
00:26:31 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
From Foolishness to Wisdom: Working with Frustration
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl explores how her childhood experience of learning piano taught her to endure the frustration that comes with being in the "learning space" – the uncomfortable g…
00:26:34 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
Liri Albag: This is Resilience
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl reflects on the profound resilience shown by individuals who have endured extreme hardships, particularly focusing on the stories of hostages recently freed fro…
00:27:38 |
Thu 20 Feb 2025
Be a Tree: A Meditation for Tu BiShvat, the Jewish New Year of the Trees
In this episode, join Rabbi Angela Buchdahl to explore the significance of Tu BiShvat, the Jewish New Year for the Trees, through meditation, mystical insights, and an ancient Talmudic tale. Through …
00:28:13 |
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Tikkun Olam — To Braid the World
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl reflects on the joy and emotional weight of the recent hostage reunions, particularly the resilience and love demonstrated by former captives. She recounts a po…
00:27:07 |
Thu 06 Feb 2025
Connecting with the Snake: a Meditation for the Lunar New Year
In this episode, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl reflects on the Lunar New Year, exploring the significance of the year of the Snake and its themes of mindfulness, renewal, and introspection. Drawing from Jewi…
00:27:12 |
Thu 30 Jan 2025
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