Pesach Seder Prep Karpas is the true beginning of the Seder experience, when we encounter the paradox of this night - the newness and pain, rebirth and suffering, growing and drowning. Here we begin to feel the expansive space that holds the totality of t

The second stage of the Pesach seder offers us the opportunity to put our intentions for the night into practice. ***** Please support Rabbi Ami and this podcast by contributing here, designating “Awakening”: https://www.paypal.me/shefapodcastnetwork  Thi

Spiritual guidance and preparation for the Passover seder. Finding Seder/"order" amidst chaos, creating holiness in the here and now.

The Sages teach that the salvation of Purim has something to do with Moshe being born and dying in the month of Adar. They also teach that Purim is the day of true acceptance of Torah, when the event of Mount Sinai was ultimately fulfilled. In this very p

In the first episode of Awakening, Rabbi Ami explores the centrality of the telling of a story, not only to the holiday of Purim itself, but to awakening to our own lives, through a teaching of Rebbe Nosson of Nemirov.  Sources for further awak