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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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00:14:26

Scary Good Girls & P’kudei

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/03/03

Can we take one more thing? I mean, we need a war, too, now, on top of the pandemic? How scary is that? As a distraction, and to laugh, I’ve been watching Good Girls. We’re coming into Purim soon, when we’re supposed to laugh, so I guess I’m practicing. P’kudei is a completion of sorts, with nothing to laugh about, and the mystery of clouds and fires, but we do need to laugh, as one Ukrainian mother reminds us.

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00:09:15

That Can’t Be All (Vayak’hel)

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/02/22

When my friend told me she had to go for surgery next week and she was scared, I went into overdrive in organizing a circle to support her in healing. And the gifts of offerings started pouring in from those attendance: could I tell them stop, it’s too much, like Moses did to the Israelites?

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00:16:30

I asked for rags? (Ki Tissa)

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/02/16

My daughter went to Mexico and she asked what I wanted her to bring back. Rags, I said. Listen if you’re curious how this could possibly connect to the Golden Calf, the broken tablets, the death of so many Israelites, and the glow Moses gets when he speaks to God. I hope you’re curious. ;)

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00:15:43

Bells on their robes and blood on their hands: Tetzaveh

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/02/09

In this week’s parsha, the priests are given their special clothing and rules about sacrifices. There’s lots of blood from the animal sacrifices and the priests must wear the twelve tribes on their hearts. What do we wear on our hearts? Do we only think about our own tribes? The first episode of Radio Lab inspired this episode of my podcast.

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00:14:39

Carving out the gifts of T’rumah

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/02/03

Is the sanctuary a beautiful place for God, or is it for us? Because who needs it, really? Last week I talked about sacred time; this week I talk about sacred space and why it’s so important, especially in today’s world.

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00:24:52

A wedding stuck in time and Mishpatim

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/01/28

In our efforts to control or conquer time, we get so bogged down in the details of doing that hold us back from what really matters, yet sometimes it’s also the details that really matter. The laws of the Torah seem stuck in an ancient time, yet sometimes they are translatable and we still have to learn from them in our time. Here I talk about a nightmare I had about my daughter’s upcoming wedding and how it led to rethinking the timing of it—and other things, especially what really matters.

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00:11:46

Snakes or toilet brushes? And Yitro

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/01/21

After walking to freedom, there’s still so much work to be done. Jethro hears the calling and becomes a believer. The Israelites finally do, too, but true change and transformation will be harder. As we just celebrated the life of Dr. King, we continue to struggle to see the human family as and our connection to earth as One. From Black Lives Matter to Critical Race Theory being banned and racist voices gaining power, we can not lose the faith we learn from people like Jethro and MLK in the

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00:11:04

Toilet Bowls and Walls of Water

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/01/14

This week is when we walk to freedom through the split sea. But it’s not a straight line to freedom, and we may have a change of heart and want to turn around and go back to a time and place we imagine was better. But was it really?

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00:11:34

Come into the Darkness: Bo

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2022/01/07

It’s January 6th, a new part of our history to commemorate. Sometimes we need to see the darkness before we can come out of it. Darkness is one of the last plagues, and things will get worse before they get better, but the story of liberation is so central to Judaism, it has given strength to so many people to keep going.

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00:17:31

How Whole is Your Heart? (Va-era)

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2021/12/31

This episode is about the state of our hearts and whether we keep them open or closed and how that impacts the world. How much are we thinking about the vaccine as a cure-all for our global problems while neglecting the environmental crisis? And how can we do it differently?

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00:12:30

Oy! (Sh’mot & Solstice)

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2021/12/23

With the darkest days and times upon us, Moses comes along to give us hope, as he has done for previous generations. So many parallels…

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00:18:25

A Reason for Jubilation: Vayigash

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2021/12/09

Personal debt in the form of credit cards, student debt, medical debt, enslaves Americans in the same way the starving people during the famine in Torah were enslaved by their debt to Pharaoh. This week in Torah, Joseph reveals his true identity to his brothers, his family is saved from the famine, but not without a compromise. The starving people go into debt in order to eat, as so many are today. Jubilee? Shmita? A release of debt? Many are calling for it now!

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00:14:54

Waking Up: Miketz

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2021/12/02

Dreams and the way our lives turn out often diverge, something to the point that we are shocked. Miketz is about waking up, losing innocence, and hopefully learning from our experiences. This is true for us as individuals but also for the world as we wake up from this nightmare of a pandemic.

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00:20:53

Prostitutes, Rings and Va-Yeishev

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2021/11/26

It was Thanksgiving again, and so different from last year’s middle-of-the-pandemic one. Now it was edge-of-the-pandemic, and reintegrating slowly into life with lessons hopefully learned. I was wondering about the circularity of life, a ring I lost and found, Tamar’s story of prostitution and how women have taken care of themselves and each other for eons because the greater society fails to do so. Listen to learn more!

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00:19:28

Yes to the Dress? (Vayishlach)

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2021/11/19

How do our expectations and perceptions change or impact a situation, whether it’s wedding dress shopping with my daughter or Jacob meeting his brother after so many years? Listen to find out.

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00:14:44

Need I Explain?? (Vayeitzei)

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2021/11/12

Women’s agency over their own bodies, Kyle Rittenhouse, racist attacks and trials, the climate summit. They’re all related. And to this week’s Torah reading…Need I explain?

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00:12:47

Broken Yolks and Toldot

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2021/11/04

What do Halloween, Jacob and Esau and the Climate Summit in Glasgow have in common? Listen and you’ll find out!

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00:21:55

Caves, chaos, and caving in: Chayei Sarah

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2021/10/29

Our culture makes death more difficult and chaotic than it needs to be, but birth and death are on the same continuum. We also have a strong political influence that pits science against religion and spirituality, creating and adding to the chaos in our government, country and world, making a dangerous debate about climate change, as if it were up for debate. In this week’s parsha, there is bargaining and also faith. Listen as I tell the story of my dying cousin and what it has to do with climate

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00:16:47

Laughing at Angels: Va-Yera

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2021/10/20

In our culture, it’s taboo to believe in angels or to talk openly about being “led.” We laugh at the idea of angels because we are intelligent, modern people. In Torah, our matriarch Sarah also laughs. This week’s parsha is chock full of angels. In this episode, I explore what might happen if we suspend belief in our deep beliefs.

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00:16:13

Entitlement, Majesty and Lekh Lekha

Real Rabbi NYC ·

2021/10/15

In this episode I explore Abraham and Sarah’s use of their power and entitlement and how that contrasts with other ways of using the same, whether we feel “entitled” or not, and how we can be creative about it. I re-tell a beautiful story by Elizabeth Gilbert, famous author of Eat, Pray, Love.

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