1.22 Nazirite... Amirite?

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Judaism, Religion & Spirituality

5.0 • 531 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The rabbi and Joshua get back to basics, taking a look at this week’s Torah portion, Nasso, and exploring Judaism’s perspectives on asceticism, charity, and humility.

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(34:08) Rabbi Shira’s Guided Meditation

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0:52.4	Oh, yeah, yeah, Josh. How is your week off?
1:06.8	My week off was both restorative and enjoyable and relaxing and on another level disappointing
1:13.5	because I had a little vacation planned with my cousins who are like the brothers I never had.
1:20.4	We're very, very close.
1:21.5	We've been looking forward to it for months.
1:22.7	And after the first day of revelry and fun together, one of them tested positive for COVID, and we all left.
1:29.7	And it was an abridged vacation. Still one great day together. But I know we're also, I think
1:34.3	we're headed towards talking about gratitude and maybe perspective. I don't want to complain
1:38.9	too much about the vacation I tried to take during a pandemic that didn't work out.
1:42.8	First of all, I want also just to add on, I want to wish a refua shlema to my cousin, a full and speedy recovery and to his parents as well. It was still a nice week off. I hope you had a nice one too. I hope one day we talk about this feeling that so many people have that they don't get to complain about something because other people have it worse. because I don't know if I buy that, but we can talk about that another time. My week off was great.
2:02.2	Oh, good. have that they don't get to complain about something because other people have it worse. Because I don't know if I buy that, but we can talk about that another time.
2:03.7	My week off was great.
2:04.5	Oh, good.
2:09.1	You know, I spent a lot of time planning for our upcoming episodes and I'm really excited.
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