Soulful Jewish Living: Mindful Practices For Every Day
Overstressed, overworked, overstimulated? Close your eyes, take a deep breath and tune in. In each episode Rabbi Josh Feigelson will guide with ancient wisdom and modern mindfulness practices to help center your soul and ease you into your week. Soulful Jewish Living: Mindful Practices for Every Day is a production of Unpacked, a division of OpenDor Media, and the Institute for Jewish Spirituality.
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August 10, 2026 • 10 mins
Can feeling like a stranger actually help you find home? Rabbi Josh Feigelson reflects on the aftermath of 9/11, biblical journeys, and Jewish wisdom to explore how unfamiliar experiences can deepen our sense of belonging. This guided meditation invites you to embrace vulnerability, welcome others, and discover home in unexpected places.
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August 3, 2026 • 11 mins
What makes us feel at home, even when we're far away? Rabbi Josh Feigelson shares the story of saying Kaddish in a small synagogue in Croatia and explores how language can become a spiritual refuge. Drawing on Jewish wisdom and mindfulness, he offers a guided meditation to help you find a word or phrase that grounds you, calms your mind, and brings you home.
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July 27, 2026 • 10 mins
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What does it mean to feel home with our families? Rabbi Josh Feigelson explores this question through the story of Jacob, a man whose home life was about as messed up as it gets. Sibling rivalry, deceit, and a nighttime wrestling match with an angel all led Jacob to a surprising blueprint for building safety and belonging, eve...
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July 20, 2026 • 12 mins
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How many times a day do you check your phone? For the average American, it's about 200. In the third episode of our miniseries on home, Rabbi Josh Feigelson draws on Maya Angelou and the Ba'al Shem Tov to explore what it means to be at home in your mind. Plus a simple Jewish mindfulness practice for coming home to yourself, even...
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July 13, 2026 • 12 mins
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What does it mean to be at home in your own body? Rabbi Josh Feigelson draws on Hillel the Elder and the Baal Shem Tov to show why spiritual life starts with syncing our minds and bodies, and guides a body scan meditation you can return to anytime you feel disconnected.
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July 6, 2026 • 10 mins
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What does it mean to feel at home — in a place, in your body, in your life? Rabbi Josh Feigelson draws on baseball, the Torah, and the writing of Bart Giamatti to explore home as a state of mind rather than a physical location. The episode closes with a guided breath meditation to help you arrive, right where you are.
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June 29, 2026 • 11 mins
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Rabbi Josh wraps up the Independence miniseries by zooming out to the Jewish concept of brit (covenant) as the framework for true interdependence. Using Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's boat parable, he contrasts American culture's rights-based individualism with Judaism's responsibility-centered worldview, and draws on Walt Whitman (via Jeremy ...
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June 22, 2026 • 10 mins
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What's the difference between winning an argument and winning a war? In this episode, Rabbi Josh Feigelson explores persuasion as both a democratic and Jewish value—drawing on chavruta study, Hasidic Torah mysticism, and Professor Jeremy Engels's On Mindful Democracy. Plus: a simple practice for turning your next disagreem...
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June 15, 2026 • 9 mins
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Rabbi Josh Feigelson takes on one of America's most cherished myths: the rugged, self-made individual. In the fourth episode of the Independence miniseries, he argues it's not only historically ironic but profoundly un-Jewish. Drawing on Torah's laws of the field, he makes the case that our success is never a solo act. The episo...
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June 8, 2026 • 9 mins
What does citizenship really mean—and what does Judaism have to say about it? In this third episode of the Independence miniseries, Rabbi Josh Feigelson reflects on the difference between a rights-focused mindset and a responsibility-focused one, drawing on the Jewish concept of mitzvah and Professor Jeremy Engels's Mindful Democracy. He closes with a practical week-long havruta accountability practice to help listeners build...
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June 1, 2026 • 10 mins
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What do cutting-edge biology and a 2,000-year-old Talmudic teaching have in common? Rabbi Josh Feigelson explores how a newly discovered body system mirrors the Jewish idea that we are all deeply bound to one another and guides listeners through a mindfulness practice to help them feel that truth in their own bodies.
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May 25, 2026 • 9 mins
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This Memorial Day, Rabbi Josh Feigelson reflects on mindfulness, democracy, and interdependence. The episode launches a new series as the US approaches its 250th anniversary, exploring how true independence is rooted in community and mutual responsibility. It closes with a guided meditation on gratitude, connection, and belongin...
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May 18, 2026 • 10 mins
To close out the five-part series on uncertainty and anxiety, Rabbi Josh turns to an unlikely teacher: the 19th-century composer Franz Schubert. Drawing on Rabbi Tarfon's ancient insight that it is not your job to finish the work, the episode invites listeners to release their grip on perfection, and to simply sit with what's unfinished. A guided mindfulness practice leads the way..
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May 11, 2026 • 10 mins
What if the silence isn't judgment? Rabbi Josh shares a powerful moment from a silent retreat that reveals how anxiety turns strangers into threats. Using the Jewish concepts of ayin hara (the evil eye) and ayin tova (a generous perspective), he shows how shifting your inner filter can transform fear into openness and offers a practical meditation to help you do just that.
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May 4, 2026 • 9 mins
Rabbi Josh Feigelson reframes the experience of waiting by drawing on the Jewish wisdom of the mezuzah. Using a personal story about meeting President Clinton at the Oval Office, he distinguishes between the "waiting room" mindset rooted in anxiety and the "hallway" mindset rooted in presence and agency. The episode closes with a short guided breathing practice.
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April 27, 2026 • 9 mins
What do you do when anxiety about the future threatens to unravel everything? Rabbi Josh Feigelson found his answer in an unexpected moment during rabbinical school: "Just plan the next five minutes." In this second episode of the uncertainty miniseries, he connects that wisdom to the biblical story of Manna, the daily bread that couldn't be hoarded or saved. Stop reaching for tomorrow's answers today.
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April 20, 2026 • 10 mins
When a generator failure grounded his transatlantic flight on Christmas Day, Rabbi Josh discovered his meditation practice kept him calm while everyone around him spiraled. In this episode he explores why our brains struggle with uncertainty, and how the Hebrew verse Shiviti Hashem L'negdi Tamid offers a practical spiritual anchor for anxious moments. Includes a guided meditation you can use anywhere.
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April 13, 2026 • 8 mins
Rabbi Josh Feigelson explores Shemittah, the Jewish sabbatical year, as a radical practice of release — from debt, from striving, and from the grip that money and status can have on our hearts. Drawing on a Japanese folk tale and the Torah's reminder that the earth belongs to God, not us, he shows how letting go is not a loss but a liberation. Includes a breathing meditation to help you loosen your hold and simply be.
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March 30, 2026 • 10 mins
Rabbi Josh Feigelson draws on Hasidic teaching and personal memory to explore how Passover is the moment when Divine love, or hesed, flows freely, no earning required. Even amid heaviness and uncertainty, the Seder invites us to open our hearts and receive it. Includes a guided meditation for the season.
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March 23, 2026 • 9 mins
What does it really mean to give, and why is it so hard? In the fourth episode of a series on money, Rabbi Josh Feigelson explores the Torah's radical call to generosity through the Hebrew phrase patoach tiftach , "open, open your hand," and what the Sfat Emet teaches about the two barriers that keep us closed. With a simple embodied practice, Josh invites listeners to literally unfurl a fist and discover that opening the hand ope...
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