Episodes

  • Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 101: The Power That Heals or Harms

    Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 101: The Power That Heals or Harms
    Jan 16 2026
    This week we explore two Hasidic teachings on Parashat Va’era that ask how spiritual power becomes healing rather than harmful. Drawing on the Degel Machaneh Ephraim and the Maor VaShemesh, the episode examines the Torah’s pairing of firmness and compassion, judgment and mercy, showing how the same force can destroy or heal depending on how it is held. Together, these texts offer a bracing vision of spiritual maturity rooted in integration rather than extremes.
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    19 mins
  • Neshamah Project Podcast: Episode 100-Names in Motion

    Neshamah Project Podcast: Episode 100-Names in Motion
    Jan 8 2026
    What if meaning isn’t something we think our way into, but something we do our way into? In this episode of The Neshamah Project, we explore a teaching from Ohr HaMeir on the opening of Shemot, where holy names are not fixed labels but living realities formed through action, movement, and intention. Prayer is not only spoken. It is embodied. Hands, breath, posture, and presence become ways meaning enters the world. We look at burnout as a spiritual form of Mitzrayim—constriction, fragmentation, disconnection—and ask how small, conscious acts can begin an inner Exodus. Drawing on Kabbalah, embodied spirituality, and contemporary insight, this episode offers a gentle but radical invitation: to let the body help the soul remember, and to rediscover human thriving through mindful action. Meaning doesn’t arrive all at once. It moves.
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    19 mins
  • Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 99: The Purpose of Descent

    Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 99: The Purpose of Descent
    Dec 9 2025
    This week we look at two Hasidic readings of Vayeshev that together map the inner life: Siach Chayyim teaches that the soul’s descent into this world is purposeful, an apprenticeship in humility, growth, and learning to say “Here I am” even when we’re afraid. The Meir of Premyshlan adds that holiness isn’t only found in elevated moments but in the “lower waters” of daily life, where every ordinary act holds a spark waiting to be lifted. Taken together, the texts insist that our wandering, our struggle, and even our most mundane days are part of the soul’s path back to clarity and connection.
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    27 mins
  • Neshamah Project Podcast: Episode 98-Two Camps & The Hidden Face: Wrestling with the Inner Esau

    Neshamah Project Podcast: Episode 98-Two Camps & The Hidden Face: Wrestling with the Inner Esau
    Dec 2 2025
    This episode explores how our words of Torah, prayer, and intention become “messengers” that protect and guide us when we face our inner Esau, the parts of us that pull us off our path. Drawing on Siach Chayyim, we look at Jacob’s strategy of splitting into “two camps” of awe and love as a model for spiritual resilience, and with Or HaMeir we dive into Peniel as the practice of seeing the Divine “face within the face” in every situation. Together, these teachings frame our daily work as lifting scattered sparks of presence and finding healing not by erasing our limp, but by carrying our wounds with conscious awareness.
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    21 mins
  • Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 97: The Inner Journey

    Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 97: The Inner Journey
    Nov 28 2025
    In this week’s episode we explore commentaries from the Skulyer Rebbe and the Or HaMeir, each offering a fierce little window into inner change—lifting ourselves from old patterns, giving voice to buried truth, and integrating both our hidden and revealed selves.
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    20 mins
  • Neshamah Project: Episode 96- Mysterious Realms

    Neshamah Project: Episode 96- Mysterious Realms
    Nov 18 2025
    This episode weaves three Degel teachings from Toldot into one arc: Torah-awareness as the “added hey” that opens new possibilities, the idea that our personal lack mirrors a deeper cosmic wound, and the insight that real change comes not from merit but from aligning with the deeper current of mazal. Each teaching becomes a practice: expanding consciousness, healing the world through our own healing, and learning to face the truth of where life is actually carrying us. Together they offer a compact toolkit for spiritual realignment and human thriving.
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    15 mins
  • Neshamah Project Podcast: Episode 95- Becoming Sarah/Shechinah

    Neshamah Project Podcast: Episode 95- Becoming Sarah/Shechinah
    Nov 14 2025
    This week we sit with the Degel’s teaching that Sarah—Shekhinah—becomes “whole” in Kiryat Arba, the place where four directions of Divine flow meet. The mystics say wholeness comes when our own inner movements—reaching, receiving, grounding, and envisioning—come together. When they do, we become a source of nourishment for ourselves and others. This episode explores how to gather those four currents and touch a taste of “Hebron,” the world-to-come that appears in the here-and-now.
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    14 mins
  • Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 94: The Body as a Doorway Between Worlds

    Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 94: The Body as a Doorway Between Worlds
    Nov 4 2025
    In this episode of The Neshamah Project, we explore two luminous teachings from the Maor VaShemesh that reveal how embodied life itself can become a vessel for awakening. First, we reflect on Abraham’s transformation into a living conduit of divine presence—his body, breath, and being illuminated from within. Then we turn to his moment at the tent’s entrance, where overwhelming spiritual light brings him to the edge of dissolution, and simple acts of hospitality become a grounding force. Together, these teachings remind us that spirituality isn’t about leaving the body—it’s about coming home to it. The sacred moves through breath, touch, and service. Presence is found not in escaping the world, but in loving it fully.
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    16 mins
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