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Are you searching for engaging and accessible Torah teachings? Do you want to enhance your holiday cycle or daily spiritual practice? Our broad-ranging materials can assist and inspire you - no matter your background or beliefs.
The audio teachings, edited from live recordings and available on CD or download (via iTunes or Amazon mp3) carry sermons, prayer explanations, meditations, parent & child exercises, and chomer ledrush in a form you can take with you wherever you go.
Browse our online materials, including quotations, Bible commentaries, long and short essays, traditional stories on sacred themes, resource links, and audio samples. Please explore the site for what resonates with you. And return again to see new materials added regularly.
We are excited to announce the release of Debra's new album of teachings!
GRATITUDE
Receiving blessings and giving thanks as a spiritual practice
“Say thank you,” your mother or father may have prompted you as a child. But it turns out that expressing gratitude is more than polite. Social science has shown that feeling and communicating gratitude have countless physical and psychological benefits. It’s not just that happy people are, naturally enough, grateful. Gratitude causes people to become happier. Not only does gratitude get the “seal of approval” from Mom and from positive psychology, it is steeped in and supported by ancient spiritual teachings and practices. Gratitude is attainable – and contagious. You don’t have to deny the real problems in your life or in the world at large. What may at first seem elusive can become a natural, habitual, and vibrant source of joy.
The album is now available as a download on iTunes. Click here to go to the iTunes "Preview page" and hear samples from the album. From there click on "View in iTunes" to purchase.
You can also purchase the album on our online store as a 2-CD set, which includes a special bonus track, a remarkable additional full-length sermon, not offered on the downloadable version. Thank you. We look forward to hearing your feedback on this new release!
"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
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. And they make great gifts.
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.
Track 4, Compassion in the Face of Evil
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!
Purchase these five CD’s together and get a 15% discount!
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