1.21 Shavuot? What's That? (w/ Rabba Yaffa Epstein and Rabbi David Schuck)
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🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Rabbi Shira and Joshua shine a spotlight on the surprisingly esoteric Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which is coming up in early June. A tradition of the holiday is to stay up all night studying Torah and in that spirit, we welcome on Rabba Yaffa Epstein and Rabbi David Schuck.
Episode Timecodes:
(00:00) Rabbi Shira’s thoughts after the shooting in Texas
(13:44) Rabba Yaffa Epstein and Rabbis David Schuck join the show
(46:01) Rabbi Shira's Guided Meditation and Counting of the Omer
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| 0:51.8 | A quick heads up to listeners that this episode was recorded before the shooting at Rob Elementary in Newvaldi, Texas this past week, in which 19 children were murdered on two adults. |
| 1:08.4 | We dedicate our learning to the memories of all those who died this week. |
| 1:14.8 | And we are reminded, once again, of how much work we have to do to heal this very, very broken world. I'm a good. Hey, Josh. Hello, Rabbi. How are you? Good. |
| 1:28.3 | I mean, well, I think that bar is too high, but I'm fine. |
| 1:43.3 | Actually, there is a high holiday sermon that I am desperate to give. |
| 1:47.9 | The title is the blessing of low expectations that if we just all lowered our expectations a lot for life, |
| 1:55.8 | we actually would be quite happy because then we would surpass them all the time. |
| 1:59.7 | Yeah, I think I do that. |
| 2:01.8 | I think I'm a low bar setter, at least when it comes to myself and what I hope for out of myself. And then I'm like, |
| 2:07.0 | I did fine, essentially what I was hoping to do. Joshua, I just have such a low bar for you. |
| 2:14.3 | Please, yes, that's the problem is I'm a very low bar for myself and I need to, I need |
| 2:18.9 | everyone else to sign on as well. I need everyone to judge me. This is actually a great transition. |
| 2:23.8 | Sure. By the way, because do you know what else I have a very low bar for? No. The holiday of |
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