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The Torah teachings available here will help you with the spiritual work of the holiday cycle and your daily practice. Grounded in Jewish text and tradition, all our CD's and written materials are broadly accessible to people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs.
Edited from live recordings, the CD’s transmit inspiring teachings, prayer explanations, meditations, and chomer ledrush in a form you can carry with you wherever you go.
The online materials include quotations, meditations, writing exercises, Bible commentaries, long and short form essays, traditional stories on sacred themes, and sample audio. Please explore the site a bit at a time and return regularly to study new materials.
NEWS: With gratitude for the past and hope for the future, we are pleased to announce that Rabbi Debra Orenstein will be leaving California and moving to New Jersey, to serve as spiritual leader of Congregation Bnai Israel (CBI). Please visit online (www.bisrael.com) and in person in Emerson, NJ. Her first service there will be Friday, July 16.
Recently Published: A book came out recently entitled "Making Prayer Real: Leading Jewish Spiritual Voices on Why Prayer Is Difficult and What to Do About It
." The book is mainly composed of quotations from a sanhedrin (counsel) of 70 rabbis. Rabbi Debra is one of these leaders cited several times in the book. Click on the link to purchase.
"Rabbi Debra's profound teachings of truth and possibility, coming as they do in a voice so gracefully loving and wise, inspire devotion and thanksgiving."
-- Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D.
Teacher, psychotherapist, and author of Happiness Is An Inside Job
“Rabbi Debra Orenstein is one of the great teachers, great souls, of our time. Her integrity, wisdom, compassion, and deep, deep love of Torah blend together to create a symphony of life-enhancing insights and images. She beckons us to heights we could never ascend on our own, but we dance willingly in the presence of a master! [Her] recordings will restore your bearings and rebirth your soul!”
-- Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
Dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
Vice President, American Jewish University
INTERNET COURSE:
Meaningful Jewish Ritual: What Works, What Inspires, and What's Next?
For information about this powerful recorded Internet class go to www.AskRabbiDebra.com. You will hear and see reviews of the course and get a list of all the bonus materials you will receive.
TEACHING CD'S:
Please click on the title links or go to our Store page to purchase CD's as well as Rabbi Debra's books. There is no charge for shipping within the US.
AWE ALWAYS
Cultivating reverence for God, life, and the spiritual work before us
What if we could live in a constant state of awe? Awe opens our hearts, sharpens our senses, and connects us with something larger than ourselves. Awe also demands something from us. It is not enough to admire; we need to respond. With warmth, honesty, erudition, and her trademark humor, Rabbi Debra Orenstein offers teachings that both inspire awe and challenge us to live awesome lives. What will we choose to do and be? What values will we support? How can we use our time not just efficiently, but well? This CD gives you the motivation and the tools to respond.
SAMPLE CLIPS from Awe Always:
from track 6, Shema: Loving "God"
from track 9, Torah as the Word of God
COMPASSION CONSTANTLY
Keeping lovingkindness and God’s grace in the foreground
We all agree that kindness and compassion make the world a better place. Yet, somehow, insults (real or imagined) and impositions (or were they opportunities for service?) become our excuse for responding ungraciously. On this CD Rabbi Debra Orenstein exemplifies compassion as she addresses the sins of others and our own shadow sides. She covers challenges to compassion ranging from poor grocery store etiquette to suicide bombings. Her lessons and stories will open your heart, elevate your spirit, and truly improve your world.
TRANSFORMATION NOW
Finding the urgency and patience we need to truly change
What does it take to really change: to repent, repair, and renew? If criticism were an effective motivator, we would all already be completely enlightened and transformed. How can we find abundant reserves of patience, hope, energy —and real forgiveness? The Jewish tradition teaches about teshuvah, returning to God and our true selves. On this flagship inaugural CD, Rabbi Debra Orenstein draws from sacred texts and contemporary interpretation, offering guidance that uplifts—and really works!
SAMPLE CLIPS from Transformation Now:
from track 5, The Will to Repent
from track 6, Ultimate Repentance
from track 10, How Can I Be More Patient?
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
RabbiDebra.com is fortunate to offer exclusive teaching CD’s from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the eminent founder of the Jewish Renewal movement. Edited from live recordings, these CD's allow you to take Reb Zalman with you to your office, car, or home, as you do your daily spiritual work.
“Reb Zalman is the perfect teacher, not telling us what to believe or do, but opening doors for us to find our own way.” --Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
REB ZALMAN TEACHES
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s teachings cover an astonishing array of life’s most important questions: How can I cultivate joy? What shall I do with my fear of death? How can I live up to my best intentions? How can I deepen my connection with God and with people? More impressive than the august topics is the way Reb Zalman brings them to life, giving his listeners clarity, hope, and courage. With humor, poetry, erudition, unforgettable analogies, and, most of all, the shining example of his own soul, Reb Zalman not only teaches us, he reaches us.
from track 3, Keeping True To Intentions
REB ZALMAN PRAYS
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi has taught and written extensively on prayer, inspiring hundreds of thousands of Jews and gentiles with his wisdom. This CD is not a guide, seminar, or manual. It is not about prayer. It is prayer. Reb Zalman offers and introduces prayers, in the midst of a prayer service. He sets intentions and sings praises that lead you into prayer with him. This CD also features a prayer sung by Reb Zalman's boyhood friend, Theodore Bikel. Listen and be uplifted!
Track 8, Kaddish for a Bad Habit
Listen to these CD’s and be inspired!
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Join Rabbi Debra starting July 16 at Congregation B'nai Israel in Emerson, New Jersey, www.bisrael.com.
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