Independent Jewish Shul in Brookline, MA

Contact Us: 617-566-8171 | info@tbzbrookline.org

Nishmat Hayyim Audio Archive

2024

December 20, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Bobbi Isberg – Parashat Vayeishev: Equanimity or Escape?

 

December 13, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Reb Moshe: Parashat Vayishlach: Overcoming Fear

 

December 6, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Bobbi Isberg: Vayetzei: In Awe of the Ordinary

 

November 22, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Yocheved Sheila Katz: Chayei Sarah: “Die, Pray, Love”

 

November 15, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Bobbi Isberg: Parashat Vayera: Torah, Theater, and Meditation

 

November 8, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Reggie Silberberg: Parashat Lech Lecha: Going into the Unknown

 

November 1, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Yocheved Shelia Katz

 

October 11, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Bobbi Isberg – Kol Nidrei,” and other Yom Kippur Teachings on Impermanence

 

September 27, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Reb Moshe

 

September 20, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Yocheved Shelia Katz

 

September 13, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Reggie Silberberg: Return to the Land of Your Soul

 

September 6, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Bobbi Isberg: Parashat Shoftim: Standing Watch at the Gates

 

August 23, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Bobbi Isberg: The Invisible Journey through the High Holidays

 

August 16, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Bobbi Isberg: Parashat Va’etchanan: Seeking without Finding

 

August 9, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Reb Moshe: Tisha B’Av – Destruction and Rebirth

 

August 2, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Reb Moshe

 

July 26, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Yocheved Sheila Katz: Daughters of Zelophechad

 

July 19, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Bobbi Isberg: Parashat Balak: Resting in Uncertainty

 

July 12, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Yocheved Sheila Katz, Parashat Chukat: Inconsolable

 

June 28, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Bobbi Isberg, “Parashat Sh’lach: Where are you going?”

 

June 21, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Reb Moshe

 

June 14, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Rachele Rosi-Kessel, “Riding the Waves of Love”

 

June 7, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Carol Glass

 

May 31, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Bobbi Isberg, “Intimacy and Attunement in Leviticus”

 

May 24, 2024 – Friday AM Sit: Sheila Yocheved Katz

 

May 17, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg: Leviticus: A Therapeutic Intervention for a National Disorder

 

May 10, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Reggie Silberberg: Kedoshim: To ‘Be’ Holy

 

May 3, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Yocheved Katz: In the Middle of the Muddle”

 

April 26, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg: Poetry for Passover: “Hill Country”

 

April 19, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe: Why Elijah Visits the Seder

 

April 12, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Yocheved Katz: The Path of Totality

 

April 5, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Reggie Silberberg: Parashat Shemini: Opening Day, Death, and Nourishment

 

March 29, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg: Parashat Tzav: Ritual and Meaning

 

March 22, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Yocheved Katz: Explorations of Esther

Yocheved quotes a Reconstructionist Rabbi, Irwin Keller, who draws on his 2 decades of  experience as a professional drag queen, to talk about how the disguise we wear on Purim makes it possible to reveal parts of ourselves that are usually hidden.

 

March 15, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg: Parashat P’kudei: Creating Space for Connection

 

March 8, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Yocheved Katz: Kol Nadia Libo

 

March 1, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe: The Whole and the Shattered

 

February 23, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe: Keva and Kavanna: Action and Intention

 

February 16, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Yocheved Katz: Make me a Sanctuary

 

February 9, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg: Mishpatim: The Spirit of the Law

 

February 2, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg: Parashat Yitro: Revelation in Everyday Life

 

January 26, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg: Parashat Beshalach: Leaving and Returning

 

January 12, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Yocheved Sheila Katz: “With an Outstretched Arm”

 

January 5, 2024 – Friday AM Sit, Yocheved Sheila Katz: “You are Standing on Holy Ground”

2023

December 29, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Rabbi Carol Glass: Ne’emaniut Connects the Generations; Empathy Connects People

 

December 22, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe — Self Discovery 

 

December 15, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg: Parashat Miketz: Forgetting and Remembering Who We Are

 

December 8, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg: Vayeshev: Equanimity in ambiguity

 

December 1, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reggie Silberberg: Forgiveness, Fear, Love, and the Unique Marvel of Each Individual

 

November 17, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe: Redigging Our Ancestors’ Wells

 

November 10, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reggie Silberberg: A guided Metta meditation

 

November 3, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg: Greeting Our Visitors

 

October 20, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg: Parashat Noah: When things don’t go as planned

 

September 29, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe: Joy!

 

September 22, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Yocheved Katz: Listen O Heavens! Hear O Earth!

 

September 15, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg: L’Shana Tova: Staying Present with Change in the New Year

 

September 8, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reggie Silberberg; Parasha  Nitzavim: Listening with the heart, returning home to the Home of your soul

 

August 25, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Carol Glass; Parasha Ki Teitzei: Bringing life into balance with Jewish values

 

August 18, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe

 

August 11, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe

 

August 4, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Yocheved Katz’s talk on Eikev; Shamor: The Power of our Frailty

 

July 28, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Yocheved Katz; Va’Etchanan: Moses Could Not See that He had Already Arrived

 

July 21, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Yocheved Katz; Midaber BaMidbar: Speech in the Wilderness

 

July 14, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg; Parashat Matot-Masei: Torah teachings on Impermanence

 

July 7, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg; Parashat Pinchas: Questions, Answers, and No Answers

 

June 30, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe

 

June 23, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Katz

 

June 16, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Katz; Parashat Shelach: The Spies’ Mission: Turning Toward the Wilderness of Our Own Experience

 

June 9, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg; Parashat Beha’alotcha: Greed and Aversion in the Wilderness

 

June 2, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe; Flow of Blessing

 

May 19, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe; Desert Voices

 

May 12, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg; On Parashat Behar: The Meaning of Freedom in Torah and Meditation

 

May 5, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reggie Silberberg; Counting the Omer: Chesed shebe HOD

 

April 28, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Katz; Counting the Omer: Chesed shebe NETZACH

 

April 21, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Katz; Counting the Omer: Chesed shebe TIFERET

 

April 14, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reggie Silberberg; Counting the Omer:  Chesed shebe GEVURAH

 

March 24, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Katz; Vayikra: From the Narrow to the Expanse

 

March 17, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg; Vyakhel-Pekudei, Building Visible and Invisible Structures

 

March 10, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg; Ki Tissa, Making Space for Emptiness

 

March 3, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg; Parashat Tetzaveh: Building a Mishkan for Everyday Life

 

February 24, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe Waldoks

 

February 17, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe Waldoks teaching on “Mishpatim”

 

February 10, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Katz teaching ‘On Eagle’s Wings’

 

February 3, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reggie Silberberg

 

January 27, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe

 

January 20, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg

 

January 13, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg

 

January 6, 2023 – Friday AM Sit, Reggie Silberberg

2022

December 23, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Reggie Silberberg

 

December 16, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe

 

December 9, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe

 

November 18, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Rachele Rosi-Kessel

 

November 11, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Katz

 

November 4, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Katz

 

October 28, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg

 

October 21, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg

 

October 14, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg

 

October 7, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Carol Glass

 

September 30, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Katz

 

September 16, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Janie Hodgetts

 

September 9, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Katz

 

August 26, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe

 

August 19, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Reggie Silberberg

 

August 12, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg

 

August 5, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Sheila Katz

 

July 29, 20022 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe

 

July 15, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg

 

June 24, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Reggie Silberberg

 

June 17, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Carol Glass

 

June 10, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Bobbi Isberg

 

June 3, 2022 – Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe

 

May 27, 2022 –  Friday AM Sit, Reb Moshe