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Episode 45: Amen: Seeking Presence with Prayer, Poetry, and Mindfulness Practice

Is prayer poetry? Is poetry prayer? What is the orientation of mind and heart that one needs to bring to be able to do one, the other, or both? Rabbi Karyn Kedar — author, poet, spiritual director, and IJS alumna — invites us into her investigation of these questions through her recent book.
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This past summer I found myself in a writing partner relationship with Rabbi Zvika Krieger who, among other things, is in our Marbeh Fellowship for Senior Jewish Mindfulness Teachers at IJS. Zvika is working on a book and sent me chapters to read and comment on (it’s about God and it’s fantastic), and he made me commit to sending him 5,000 words of the book I’m trying to write about at-homeness....

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Oct 20, 2026

We invite you to check out a powerful moment from our first session of Mindful Civic Engagement, led by Rabbi Sharon Brous. If you'd like to join us for the full series, there is still time to register.

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For reasons that aren’t worth getting into, this week I found myself on the phone for 30 minutes with an insurance broker. It was time for new home and auto policies. In the age of automated everything, talking on the phone with my new friend Brad felt positively quaint: we kibbitzed a bit, he talked about how different insurance companies work, we commiserated about a terrible weekend for...

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