IKAR Podcasts

Source sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/528461?lang=bi

In the wake of the devastating attacks on southern Israel on October 7th, which resulted in so many taken hostage, murdered, and even more displaced, our hearts go out to all those affected. Kibbutz Kfar Azza, among the hardest hit, saw its members' lives entirely shattered.To honor the victims and support the survivors in their efforts to rebuild, we invite you to join a community memorial and fundraiser in a Zoom webinar with survivors from Kibbutz Kfar Azza in a conversation moderated by Rabbi Sharon Brous.

Topics discussed in this podcast include wonder, awe, and wisdom in relation to the recognition of God, Abraham's encounter with a mysterious palace, the translation debate and visions of the cosmos, the connection between wonder and action, discovering God's voice and hidden creation, divine communication and revelation, and exploring commandments, studying Bible, and making room for wonder and awe.

When women’s voices are ignored, diminished and marginalized, everyone loses. Jacob loved Rachel, but he failed to take seriously her anguished voice. Thousands of years later, Israeli spotters—women in intelligence—were ignored… at the peril of the nation. Why we must center women’s voices in the quest for peace, and in the work for a better, safer world.

Rabbi David Kasher's Weekly Parsha Study. Source sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/525551?lang=bi

Trauma awakens our ancestor Yitzhak to the possibility of a third way.Third way people fight to see humanity, even when our own humanity has been denied, and insist on complexity in a world of simplistic certainties, and fluidity in a time of binaries.Perhaps we, too, can find one another in that spacious place, the place where hope is born.