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Real Rabbi NYC

Juliet Elkind-Cruz

As a rabbi, I like keeping things real, whether about my life, or about Torah. And I do it all with a good helping of irreverence. I try to be both short and sweet, starting with my own life, my struggles, and those of the world today, and connecting to lessons I can take from Torah. My goal is to bring you the meaning I find with a new and relevant perspective as I discover it for myself, leaving you with a blessing or a prayer for the week each time.

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All Episodes

00:17:17

Words, Miracles, Life Expectancy (and other things)

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/08/05

In this episode, I look at chronic illness (as experienced by me) and relationship to society and our expectations for our lives. Is there such a thing as a Miracle Cure? What about faith? And what is Torah trying to teach us through Moses’ words?

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00:22:26

Russian Dolls, Mattot-Mas’ei, and Tisha b’Av

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/07/29

In this episode, I discuss the Netflix series, Russian Dolls, as in the layers it uncovers in the human psyche and our desire to control not only the present and future, but the past. Tisha b’Av tells us to mourn, while the week’s parsha teaches us about vows and justice. Somehow, I connect these three. Listen and find out how.

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00:17:06

God’s Image in Pinchas?

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/07/24

We are told that everyone is made in God’s image, but it’s hard to see that in everyone. What about God’s violence? What about Pinchas? In this episode, I explore these questions and draw on some fun stories in an effort to find answers.

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00:11:59

Curses to Blessings & Balaam

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/07/20

The story of Balaam and his donkey is about not seeing things we should be able to, but also about seeing things maybe we wish we didn’t. It’s a complicated balance. I describe my time on a tiny vacation when this happened, and my struggle to stay in a positive mindset despite the beauty around me. The frustrations that make us want to curse can, however be be turned into blessings, the way Balaam is forced to do.

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00:14:45

Laws of the Land: Hukkat

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/07/20

In this episode, I talk about the watershed of Supreme Court rulings coming down over the past weeks and how they relate to the parsha’s laws around niddah and coming into contact with the dead. Why are we so afraid of endings? If we could understand death as bearing new birth, we’d probably be living very differently today.

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00:10:21

Hollywood & Korach

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/07/01

Our rabbinic tradition and our Torah stories both often give us a whitewashed version of the past and our biblical characters as people. Korach definitely fits into this category. Listen and find out why I say this!

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00:17:55

Unthinkable & Shlach Lecha

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/06/26

With the overturning of Roe v Wade, I am left with more questions than answers about courage, faith and trust—and how these relate to the spies in the week’s parsha. (And visit my website to learn more about me and my offerings: lnegditamid.us)

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00:21:45

Jade and joy: b’ha’alotcha

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/06/22

I got to see both ends of life last week: I accompanied a mohel for a bris and went to a funeral home the very next day. The experiences both upset me and filled me with joy, but not for the reasons you’d think. Listen to find out how and why!

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00:26:32

Miami Vice; B’midbar

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/06/07

I was in Miami over Memorial Day weekend with a group of Latino and Jewish kids. Getting them to interact after a whole year of meeting bi-weekly was our job—not easy when everyone wants to feel safe by hanging out with their own tribes. Here I tell the story of how that happened in the end, and the beauty and hope and healing that happened, for them and for me. I also share a lot of my own story, as I told it to them. (You can also go to my website to learn more about me: lnegditamid.us

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00:20:18

Love the Earth (and moss): B’khukotai

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/05/24

Moss and taxes. A reciprocal relationship between government and people. Moss is a perfect example of cooperation and reciprocity. Yet we’ve been programmed to think that we as individuals are responsible for our own successes and failures, riches and poverty, separate from the society and system we live in. What the Bible teaches about caring for the Earth and the consequences of not doing so…pretty gruesome. And we are living it now. But let’s learn from moss…

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00:17:05

My People, My Mountain: B’Har

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/05/20

Mass shootings, filibusters, laws that don’t serve the majority, yet we are prevented from changing them. The way we treat our people reflects the way we treat and possess our land. If only this one statement in Torah could be respected: “the land is not yours; it is Mine,” it could change everything. With a special treat—the words of Woody Guthrie that most of us don’t know…

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00:33:46

The Rejects of Emor

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/05/13

With abortion rights being threatened, and shortages of all kinds of goods, there’s a lot to be alarmed and hopeless about. The parsha this week makes us take a look at ourselves, though, in a different way. Who are the rejects of our society and how different are we from the society reflected in our ancient sacred books? We may be shocked at women being burned and people being stoned, and we may want to reject our heritage. But we can’t walk away from where we come from any more than we can walk

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00:13:16

Cleanliness, Godliness & K’doshim

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/05/05

Is it my personal obsession with toilets, or is it our culture? I saw this crazy video on Facebook, and I couldn’t look away. All the toxic chemicals! This week’s parsha teaches us about how to be holy, like God, and I don’t think it’s by making colorful, foamy designs in empty toilets and flushing them down for the hell of it…

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00:12:38

The Promise of the Land

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/04/29

As Jews, we think a lot about our land. On Passover, we talk about returning each year to the land. As Americans, we have a responsibility to the land as well—or, as humans in general. The history of our national parks is a painful one, and our responsibility towards native peoples is real. Do we pass over it, like God did our houses, and say it’s a thing of the past? Akharei Mot has a few answers for us, I think.

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00:12:18

Dayenu and Cancel Culture

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/04/14

It’s such a hard year to talk about liberation. So much pain in the world. Do we get to cancel it?

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00:11:30

Scrubbing It Away & Metzora

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/04/08

This week there’s lots of scrubbing—of stones and stoves and refrigerators—the latter because Passover is coming. In the parsha, it’s about scrubbing away disease. Passover is about freedom from slavery, but we have a complicated past of becoming slave owners in the U.S. The history of being both enslaved and oppressed and enslavers and oppressors is an unsavory history, hard to swallow. How do we process this and come out to a place of expansiveness, despite the challenges of the world? Not sure I

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00:12:40

Spoiled Child, Birthdays, & Tazria

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/04/01

Is aging something to be afraid of and push away? Should we change our skin and hair in order to look younger? I thought we were getting beyond that. As we have learned to relate in different ways since isolation set in two years ago at the start of the pandemic, so we can find news ways of believing in and helping ourselves and our bodies heal—as I discovered Wim Hof two weeks ago on the anniversary of the shut-down in New York City. Like in the parsha, hopefully after isolation, we come out

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00:18:18

Deaf, Blind and Dumb? (Shemini)

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/03/25

Helen Keller’s life was a myth, and so are many stories in the Torah. As Aaron’s sons are killed for thinking for themselves, and Aaron is silent, so was Helen Keller silenced. Now there is an effort to silence Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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00:22:29

Turning it Upside Down (Tzav)

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/03/18

I’ve been wondering how to go forward with my weekly blogs and podcasts, focusing only on Torah, which is so male-oriented, as a female rabbi coming into my own. Am I continuing the sexism? On Purim, we are commanded to turn everything on its head. Thinking about the 50th anniversary of the first ordained American female rabbi, plus this week’s parsha, made me wonder about my role and how to stretch to the next level. But it’s true of the world as well. It’s being stretched, as we all are. This

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00:11:26

How do we?? (Va’Yikra)

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/03/11

With all that’s happening in Ukraine, what is our individual and collective responsibility? This week’s parsha is about how to make expiation. How do we??

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