Rabbi Rami Shapiro: Living in Free Fall: The Path of the Holy Rascal

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Rabbi Rami Shapiro is an award-winning author, teacher, and former congregational rabbi whose written prayers are used in books around the world. With Sounds True, he has published the spoken-word offering How to be a Holy Rascal and the forthcoming book Holy Rascals: Advice for Spiritual Revolutionaries. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Rami and Tami Simon talk about the concept of the "holy rascal" and just what it takes to become one. Rami speaks on his background as a rabbi and how he came to a practice of "nondual Judaism." Tami and Rami also discuss his encounters with God as a mother figure, and how these mystical experiences led to a burning away of his clinging tendencies. Finally, Rami underlines the importance of ecstatic experiences and why holy rascals are needed now more than ever. (68 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses and events. At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.1	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey, offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the edge. Today my guest is Rabbi Rami Shapiro.
0:45.0	Rami is an award-winning author of over two dozen non-fiction books whose poems and short stories
0:52.0	have been anthologized in over a dozen volumes
0:55.8	and whose prayers are used in prayer books around the world.
0:59.2	Rami received rabbinical ordination from the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion and holds a PhD in religion from Union Graduate School.
1:10.0	A Congregational Rabbi for 20 years.
1:14.0	Rabbi Rami is currently adjunct professor of religious studies at Middle Tennessee State
1:20.0	University, where he also directs The Writers Loft,
1:24.0	MTSU's Creative Writing Program,
1:26.0	and is co-director of One River Wisdom School,
1:30.0	a training program in the perennial philosophy.
1:34.0	With sounds true, Rami has published the new audio series,
1:38.0	How to Be a Holy Rascal,
1:41.0	and is working on a forthcoming book called Holy Rascal's
1:45.0	advice for spiritual revolutionaries. In this episode of Insights at the Edge
1:51.0	Rami and I spoke about what makes somebody a holy rascal and two
1:57.4	of the hallmarks of holy rascality, endless curiosity and boundless compassion.
2:05.0	We talked about his background as a rabbi
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