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Kayla Haber-Goldstein: Questioning the Answers: Rebuilding Your Faith [Teshuva 3/6]

18Forty Podcast

18Forty

Religion & Spirituality, Judaism

4.6 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

This series is sponsored by our friends, Daniel and Mira Stokar.
On this episode of 18Forty, we have a frank conversation with author Kayla Haber-Goldstein about her personal, painful journey to find God. Kayla proudly describes herself as FFB/BT, a reference to her identifying as a ba’al teshuvah despite growing up in a religious, rabbinic home in Australia and Jerusalem.

—How do you align Judaism to your life so that religious practice doesn’t feel like a burden?
—How can Orthodox education be improved to encourage spiritual-seeking?
—How can you make changes to your life while under intense social scrutiny?

Kayla Haber-Goldstein is an interior designer living in New York. Born to a rabbinic family, Kayla set out to explore her own relationship with Judaism, resulting in her book, Questioning The Answers. Kayla is passionate about questioning the answers—and questions—of Judaism, in order to be consciously religious.

Interview begins at 15:30.

References:
Questioning the Answers by Kayla Haber-Goldstein
Crash Course in Jewish History by Ken Spiro
Orot Hatorah by Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook

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0:00.0

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and let's face it, we are living in a time when every single one of us should be drafting the five-year plan for our futures in Israel.

0:20.7

Our own listeners from within the 1840 community have purchased in Eden, an opportunity which

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they will longingly watch unfold into a reality, a shul, and a community.

0:32.2

I am so proud that the leaders behind Aden are none other than Rabbi Benny and Khani Krohn. I know them personally

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because they are the rabbi and Rebitten of my own personal community and they are the ones leading

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this new development community. And I know for my own life that their stewardship, their leadership,

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is you know this is going to be a welcoming, joyous, incredible

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community where everyone is going to be able to feel comfortable and build a home.

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On June 29th, Eden will be hosting a webinar to speak in detail about the vision for this project.

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stories vivid, relevant, and alive.

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