
Empowered Jewish Living with Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum
Exploring the depth of Jewish wisdom, the beauty of Jewish life, and how to live a more empowered life. Classes and interviews with great Jewish authors, artists, Kabbalists, therapists, and influencers. By Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum.
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May 11, 2023 • 1h 4min
Mayaan & Ash, The Jewish Nomads: Igniting Hearts in India and around the World
Ashriel and Maayan, known on their social media as The Jewish Nomads, traveled the world for over 5 years and volunteered in many Jewish communities before establishing ‘Bet Halev’, a Jewish home in the magical coastal town of Varkala in India. Beit Halev gives an authentic Jewish alternative to Jewish travelers who come to India for the ashrams, the yoga, and spiritual workshops, including Kosher food, Shabbats, holidays, access to books, classes and workshops, and a cozy feeling of being at home!
Instagram: @thejewishnomads
Website: https://bethalev.org/
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum's second book, "The Four Elements of Inner Freedom: The Exodus Story as a Model for Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Personal Breakthroughs".
You can order a copy on Amazon, in your local Jewish bookstore, or right here: https://levx.org/event/the-four-elements-of-freedom
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May 2, 2023 • 1h 6min
Lag B'Omer with Zevi Slavin: The Zohar, Kabbalah Conundrums, and the Mysticism that Unites Us
Zevi Slavin is the creator of Seekers of Unity, an educational project and community dedicated to a collaborative, comparative, interdisciplinary exploration of mysticism. Exploring the unity of the world’s mystical traditions and the intersection of philosophy and mysticism, east and west, ancient and contemporary. You are invited to join the community of seekers at www.youtube.com/seekersofunity
Zevi is an Australian native who was raised, educated and ordained within the Chassidic community. Early on, Zevi fell in love with Jewish mysticism, a love which proved contagious and spread to all of the world’s mystical traditions. Zevi has studied and taught philosophy and mysticism at both religious and academic institutions around the world. He’s currently reading and writing, curating content, conversation and community, in the hopes of creating a more intimate, tender and caring world together.
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum's second book, "The Four Elements of Inner Freedom: The Exodus Story as a Model for Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Personal Breakthroughs".
You can order a copy on Amazon, in your local Jewish bookstore, or right here: https://levx.org/event/the-four-elements-of-freedom
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This episode of the Empowered Jewish Living podcast is powered by OKclarity.com. OKclarity.com is THE place for any Jew - no matter how frum or religious you are - to find a top notch therapist, coach, or nutritionist. And its completely free! OKCLARITY.com’s therapists, coaches, and nutritionists are vetted and have extensive experience working with the Jewish community. If you’re in the market for a therapist, Coach, or nutritionist - or if you are a therapist, coach, or nutritionist, you must go check them out at OKclarity.com.
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Apr 23, 2023 • 57min
R' David Lapin: Discover Your Spiritual Fingerprint and Thrive in Business and Life!
David Lapin is one of the world’s leading thinkers in the fields of leadership and business transformation. As a scholar, speaker, columnist, author of Lead by Greatness (Avoda Books, 2012), and founder of Lapin International, he has helped thousands of leaders and organizations distinguish themselves and elevate performance at every level.
David’s every engagement is grounded in his humanist philosophy of leadership known as Lead by Greatness®—a blueprint for personal achievement and business growth forged during the turbulent post-Apartheid period in his native South Africa. During this time, in collaboration with Nelson Mandela’s government and an assembly of influential business leaders, David drafted one of the world’s first formal codes of corporate ethics. Known as the Code of Ethics for the King Commission on Corporate Governance, it is still in practice today.
Inspired by his success in applying Lead by Greatness® principles in the country’s then-blighted business sector, David founded Lapin International in 1989 to help businesses and organizations around the world strengthen the collaborative forces that promote their growth and creativity.
From training over 100,000 law enforcement officers—including the Los Angeles Police Department—to build trust through community engagement, to helping a global Real Estate Investment Trust expand its portfolio from $2 billion in one country to $11 billion in 15 countries, to helping a Native American hospitality group grow its revenue by nearly 700% in eight years, he has spent the past two decades deploying his unique approach in some of the world’s most intricate corporate and cultural contexts.
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum's second book, "The Four Elements of Inner Freedom: The Exodus Story as a Model for Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Personal Breakthroughs".
You can order a copy on Amazon, in your local Jewish bookstore, or right here: https://levx.org/event/the-four-elements-of-freedom
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This episode of the Empowered Jewish Living podcast is powered by OKclarity.com. OKclarity.com is THE place for any Jew - no matter how frum or religious you are - to find a top notch therapist, coach, or nutritionist. And its completely free! OKCLARITY.com’s therapists, coaches, and nutritionists are vetted and have extensive experience working with the Jewish community. If you’re in the market for a therapist, Coach, or nutritionist - or if you are a therapist, coach, or nutritionist, you must go check them out at OKclarity.com.
Also, if you have WhatsApp, OKclarity has an amazing WhatsApp status or groups with thousands of obsessed followers. Their WhatsApp is a free way to improve your mental health and they post great humor so you’ll laugh too. If you have WhatsApp shoot them a message at 917-426-1495.
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Apr 16, 2023 • 57min
Sefirat Ha'Omer: A Kabbalistic Love Story
In this episode, Rabbi Shlomo explores the Kabbalistic Sefirot that we focus on when we are counting the Omer. Using the metaphor of a man and woman falling in love, we explore what does each sefira symbolizes and what we should be thinking about during this powerful time of year.
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum's second book, "The Four Elements of Inner Freedom: The Exodus Story as a Model for Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Personal Breakthroughs".
You can order a copy here: https://levx.org/event/the-four-elements-of-freedom

Apr 11, 2023 • 38min
Introduction to Sefiras Ha'Omer: What are the Sefirot and what does it mean to be in the "Image of God"?
This class was recorded on zoom in 2021 as an introduction to Sefiras Ha'Omer. In this episode we explore the concept of the image of God and introduce the concept of Sefirot, a central theme in Kabbalah.
In the next episode, we will explore the 7 traits that we are meant to work on during this time of Sefiras Ha'Omer.

Apr 2, 2023 • 43min
Passover and the 4 Steps to Personal Breakthrough (Part 4)
In this series (originally posted in 2021) we explore how the four cups of wine at the Seder correspond to the four stages of the Exodus and how we experience each of these stages in our own life. We explore how Egypt represents the 4 inner realms of earth, water, wind, and fire. We discover how we can become enslaved by our character flaws as well as how we can free ourselves from them. The themes of this series are discussed in much greater detail in Rabbi Shlomo's new book, The Four Elements of Inner Freedom.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum's second book, "The Four Elements of Inner Freedom: The Exodus Story as a Model for Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Personal Breakthroughs".
You can order a copy here: https://levx.org/event/the-four-elements-of-freedom

Mar 28, 2023 • 35min
Passover and the 4 Steps to Personal Breakthrough (Part 3)
In this series (originally posted in 2021) we explore how the four cups of wine at the Seder correspond to the four stages of the Exodus and how we experience each of these stages in our own life. We explore how Egypt represents the 4 inner realms of earth, water, wind, and fire. We discover how we can become enslaved by our character flaws as well as how we can free ourselves from them. The themes of this series are discussed in much greater detail in Rabbi Shlomo's new book, The Four Elements of Inner Freedom.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum's second book, "The Four Elements of Inner Freedom: The Exodus Story as a Model for Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Personal Breakthroughs".
You can order a copy here: https://levx.org/event/the-four-elements-of-freedom
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Here is the link to the final class in this series:
Part 4: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/OVICFLdiayb

Mar 22, 2023 • 51min
Decluttering Your Home and Your Mind (for Passover and all-year round) with Rebekah Saltzman and Devorah Buxbaum
Rebekah Saltzman is a personal organization expert and a sustainable lifestyle leader in the Jewish community. Decluttering, reducing waste and a simplified Jewish life are all married in her premiere book Organized Jewish Life: The Essential Guide to Planning Jewish Holidays, Events and Every Day.A busy mother of three and entrepreneur, Rebekah knows the struggles of keeping it all together. Pair that with the revolving Jewish calendar, managing all the customs, and everyday life and it’s easy to drown. Using her expertise as a personal organizer, Rebekah has tackled the seemingly impossible task: making Jewish customs, traditions and holidays simple with the ultimate checklist for Jewish life.Every week, Rebekah helps people all over the world from all different denominations, declutter their lives in popular virtual decluttering sessions, Power Hours. She is thrilled for her book to impact lives in a new way and help people find happiness and peace beneath all of the clutter.Follow on Instagram at @BalaganBeGone or on her podcast Journey To Organization.
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum's second book, "The Four Elements of Inner Freedom: The Exodus Story as a Model for Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Personal Breakthroughs".
You can order a copy here: https://levx.org/event/the-four-elements-of-freedom

Mar 20, 2023 • 44min
Passover and the 4 Steps to Personal Breakthrough (Part 2)
In this series (originally posted in 2021) we explore how the four cups of wine at the Seder correspond to the four stages of the Exodus and how we experience each of these stages in our own life. We explore how Egypt represents the 4 inner realms of earth, water, wind, and fire. We discover how we can become enslaved by our character flaws as well as how we can free ourselves from them. The themes of this series are discussed in much greater detail in Rabbi Shlomo's new book, The Four Elements of Inner Freedom.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum's second book, "The Four Elements of Inner Freedom: The Exodus Story as a Model for Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Personal Breakthroughs".
You can order a copy here: https://levx.org/event/the-four-elements-of-freedom
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Here are the links to the next 2 classes in this series:
Part 3: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/lqBq9Ldiayb
Part 4: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/OVICFLdiayb

Mar 14, 2023 • 37min
Passover and the 4 Steps to Personal Breakthrough (Part 1)
In this series (originally posted in 2021) we explore how the four cups of wine at the Seder correspond to the four stages of the Exodus and how we experience each of these stages in our own life. We explore how Egypt represents the 4 inner realms of earth, water, wind, and fire. We discover how we can become enslaved by our character flaws as well as how we can free ourselves from them. The themes of this series are discussed in much greater detail in Rabbi Shlomo's new book, The Four Elements of Inner Freedom.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum's second book, "The Four Elements of Inner Freedom: The Exodus Story as a Model for Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Personal Breakthroughs".
You can order a copy here: https://levx.org/event/the-four-elements-of-freedom
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Here are the links to the other 3 classes in this series:
Part 2: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/MUSWCMdiayb
Part 3: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/lqBq9Ldiayb
Part 4: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/OVICFLdiayb