Open My Heart
Living Jewish Prayer: A Podcast from IJS
Welcome to Open My Heart: Living Jewish Prayer. Each Monday and Friday, a different teacher will offer a new short prayer-practice, inviting you to join them. From one episode to the next, the practice, and the voices will be different. No one presenter, and no one prayer, will necessarily work for everyone. But our hope (and expectation) is that over time, joining in these prayers will lead you to find your own authentic and meaningful prayer practice and open your heart to prayer.
Listen to our most recent episode below, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Meet your host, Rabbi Jonathan Slater, Senior Program Director. Rabbi Slater has worked with IJS since 2002, having participated in the first rabbinic cohort. He is a co-director of the Clergy Leadership Program, and serves in multiple programs throughout the organization. Rabbi Slater was ordained by JTS and served congregations in northern California for over twenty years.
May I be safe
Episode 54: May I be safe
This week we get to visit with Elana Arian, whose “Ken Yehi Ratzon” has closed our podcast. She shares her background, how she came to write Jewish music, her work as guest-artist in congregations and how that shapes her work, and how she came to write our closing tune.
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25-25-50 Meditation
Episode 48: 25-25-50 Meditation Do you think you could have an "I-Thou" connection to a tree? Well, not sitting in your house you can't! And, likely just walking up to a tree and saying "HI" won't work either. Rabbi Mike Comins offers us a practice to help us...
Prayer as Poetry: Making Space for Our Lives
Episode 47: Prayer as Poetry: Making Space for our Live The Rabbis speak of the letters of Torah as being black fire on white fire. Rabbi David Stern understands this as the events of our life, and our ability to find space and spaciousness around them, to make...
A Morning Practice
Episode 46: A Morning Practice A spiritual practice requires "makom": a place, God (called HaMakom by the rabbis of the Talmud), and kiyyum, our own personal presence. Rabbi Karyn Kedar brings us through her personal practice of Makom, her personal evening and morning...
Amen: Seeking Presence with Prayer, Poetry, and Mindfulness Practice
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,...
PrayerFull Guide to Prayer Practice – Part 2
Episode 44: PrayerFull Guide to Prayer Practice - Part 2 We welcome back Rabbanit Leah and Rabba Dina to reap the benefits of their work together. In this episode, we will hear their most recent PrayerFull podcast on Great Love. Read the episode...
PrayerFull Guide to Prayer Practice – Part 1
Episode 43: PrayerFull Guide to Prayer Practice - Part 1 Just as there are varied prayer traditions in different communities, so there are many ways to enter into prayer. Rabba Dina Brawer and Rabbanit Leah Sarna, Orthodox rabbis, have created a podcast of curated,...
