Divine Intervention? with Rabbi Wendi Geffen
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Rabbi Wendi Geffen has served as one of the rabbis at North Shore Congregation Israel since her rabbinic ordination in 2002, assuming the role of senior rabbi in July 2015. A visionary, thought leader, and distinguished orator and teacher, Rabbi Geffen is passionate about Judaism, Torah, and the ways these ancient sources of wisdom add meaning to our lives and enable us to better our world today. She dedicates herself to learning and teaching with those interested in developing their own Jewish identities and Jewish journeys, no matter their age or background; she is regularly sought as a teacher and speaker, and her writing has been widely published.
What does Judaism tells us about how to live a meaningful life?
There is a lot of talk right now about people turning away from a more organized religion and turning toward their own version of spirituality, what are your thoughts about that?
What does Judaism teach us about the afterlife and what happens to us when we die?
How do you as a Rabbi help people understand communication such as signs to understand and make sense of these experiences within the framework of Judaism.
Can you talk about your recent experience that was spiritually transformative in a way that made you rethink how you thought about faith and things happening for a reason?
Many people really dislike the phrase "everything happens for a reason" and I understand why, can you describe your experience and how you came to a potential reogranization of how you understand faith as a result of that experience?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to life, death, and the Space Between podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host, Dr. Amy Robbins, and here we explore life, death, consciousness, and what it all means. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm back today with Rabbi Wendy Geffen, and if you haven't had a chance to listen to our first episode, |
| 0:21.3 | I would encourage you to go back and listen to that because there we discuss Judaism, |
| 0:27.1 | how Judaism explains and understands life and death and spirituality and what happens when we |
| 0:32.6 | die and the afterlife and all the good, juicy stuff that I love to talk about on this podcast. |
| 0:38.5 | But today we're here back with Rabbi Geffen to hear one of her stories. And I received this email from my |
| 0:46.2 | mom. Thanks, Mom. Shout out. And she sent me a sermon that Rabbi Geffen had given shortly after Yom Kippur. |
| 0:56.4 | And I was so moved and touched by the story that I wanted to make sure to have an opportunity |
| 1:01.1 | to share it with you all. |
| 1:02.9 | So today we're going to talk with Rabbi Geffen again about her experience that was, I would |
| 1:09.2 | say, sort of a spiritual transformative experience. |
| 1:11.9 | And you probably have a lot of those given this is what you do. |
| 1:15.5 | But I think it sounded like, in listening to it, it really made you rethink how you thought |
| 1:21.0 | about faith and things happening for a reason. |
| 1:24.3 | So can you, and I think people generally have like a kind of like a, oh, |
| 1:30.7 | response when people say, oh, well, things happen for a reason because it's usually in response |
| 1:36.5 | to bad things and usually it feels unfair. And to say, oh, well, that happened for a reason, |
| 1:41.3 | can feel dismissive and hurtful. But can you kind of speak to your experience? |
| 1:47.3 | Speak a little bit about faith, because I know you talked about faith in this sermon |
| 1:52.0 | and how you understood it and how that may have shifted a little bit for you throughout this. |
| 1:57.6 | Yeah, you know, it's interesting, this idea of faith. |
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