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oleh Tonia Chazanow
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Honest, spiritual conversations to unravel the essence of the human experience. Exploring Jewish & Chassidic wisdom, women's Torah, and the lived experience of Judaism. Hosted by Tonia Chazanow. Learn more about Human & Holy's work at humanandholy.com.
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- From Fear to Love: Finding a Deeper Judaism Through Chassidus | Esther Malka Groner · 46 mntGrowing up in a Satmar community, a new world opened up for Esther Malka when her father began a secret, late-night study of Tanya when she was a young girl. Through being…
- How Did We Get Here? The History Behind What We Practice | Sheva Deren · 47 mntHow did Jewish life come to take the shape we know today? In this conversation, Sheva Deren, a Jewish history teacher in Melbourne, Australia, talks about the upheavals, choices…
- Why Do Mothers Feel Like They’re Never Doing Enough? | Miri Lipskier · 52 mntMotherhood is deeply spiritual work, yet many mothers feel inadequate, as if their contribution doesn’t count by the world’s standards of success, or as if motherhood falls…
- Pain and Suffering Are Not the Same | Chaya Cowen · 57 mntHow can we experience crushing pain without experiencing it as suffering? Again and again, life brings us to a crossroads: will we hold our pain by ourselves, or let G-d meet us…
- I Imagined Myself in the Sukkah | Shoshana Judelman · 56 mntGet a free download of Human & Holy's conversation cards for your Sukkah by becoming a monthly supporter of Human & Holy at humanandholy.com ❤️ * * * * * * * The sukkah is…
- Yom Kippur: Let Yourself Be Carried | Sara Rosenstein, Rivka Fenton and Rosie Gurevitch · 28 mntA short excerpt from this week's Human & Holy pre-Yom Kippur morning in New Haven, CT. A poem, a conversation with Sara Rosenstein about returning to Hashem after years of…
- Teshuvah and the God We Think We Know | Rus Devorah Wallen · 1 jam 8 mntA conversation about Teshuvah through the dual lens of clinical attachment theory and Torah sources. We explore why perfect attunement in any relationship is a myth, and how the…
- Where Are You? A Rosh Hashanah Reckoning with Choice · 35 mntWhat is Rosh Hashanah, the birthday of the world, inviting us to? In this recording of our Human & Holy Rosh Hashanah event in LA, we sit with powerful Torah sources to look at…
- Hashem Is In with Mimi Hecht, Rivki Rabinowitz, Chani Lisbon and ChayaLeah Sufrin · 1 jam 54 mntSo...how are we doing? We're ringing in the new Jewish year with a Jewish State of the Union: where have we been this last year and where are we headed? Today, I sit down with…
- The Moment that Stuck | Rachel Jacobs: Why Numbers Don't Measure Success · 17 mntHuman & Holy is on a season break for the rest of the summer! During this time, we're airing your favorite moments from the past few seasons. This episode is an impactful moment…
- The Moment that Stuck | Devori Nussbaum: Why You Feel Numb (And How to Reconnect to G-d) · 33 mntHuman & Holy is on a season break for the rest of the summer! During this time, we're airing your favorite moments from the past few seasons. Watch the original episode in full…
- The Moment That Stuck | Inbal Levin: Our Light is Our Weapon · 32 mntHuman & Holy is on a season break for the rest of the summer! During this time, we're airing your favorite moments from the past few seasons. Watch the original episode in full…
- The Moment that Stuck | Chanie Krasnianski: The Soul of Intimacy · 57 mntHuman & Holy is on a season break for the rest of the summer! During this time, we're airing your favorite moments from the past few seasons. Watch the original episode in full…
- The Moment that Stuck | Shternie Rosenfeld: How Gratitude Got Me Through My Divorce · 24 mntHuman & Holy is on a season break for the rest of the summer! During this time, we're airing your favorite moments from the past few seasons. In this excerpt, Shternie describes…
- The Moment that Stuck | Chani Heyman on Raising Kids Who Stay Close as They Grow · 39 mntHuman & Holy is on a season break for the rest of the summer! During this time, we're airing your favorite moments from the past few seasons. How do you instill Jewish values…
- The Moment That Stuck | Jackie Glaser: When Turning to G-d Becomes a Way to Hide From Yourself · 29 mntHuman & Holy is on a season break for the rest of the summer! During this time, we're airing your favorite moments from the past few seasons. In today's excerpt with Jackie…
- The Questions Women Don't Ask Out Loud | Dena Block · 49 mntA conversation about women's health & Jewish law, the more sensitive questions hidden behind women's seemingly straightforward halachic questions, how the concept of a Yoetzet…
- Why I Stopped Waiting for a Miracle | Chavie Bruk · 1 jam 31 mntA conversation about the gritty, messy experience of faith when the things you want are not a "not yet" but a "no", life as a mother of five adopted children while grieving a…
- Am I a Follower of the Lubavitcher Rebbe? · 40 mntI recently opened a box of my middle school journals, and found the question that has followed me for nearly twenty years: could I honestly call myself a chossid of a Rebbe I had…
- Raising Children When You're Still Figuring It Out | Elisheva Segelman · 1 jam 21 mntAn honest, joyful, and deeply practical conversation about Jewish parenting. We talk about how to genuinely infuse your home with love of Judaism, what to do when you want to…
- You Are Harder on Yourself Than G-d Is | Karen Hochhauser · 54 mntThe Torah opens up with failure after failure, we have laws of repair (teshuvah) baked into our Judaism, and yet many who live a value-driven life live in enormous fear of…
- It Already Belongs to You | Annie Nagel & Hadassah Shemtov on Women's Torah Study · 1 jam 7 mntDoes the Torah belong to every woman? This week, I host a roundtable with two women who've built their lives around Torah: Annie Nagel, who left a thriving law career for the…
- To Be Both a Traveler and at Home: Receiving the Torah · 30 mntWhat does it mean to be both a stranger and at home in your Judaism? To be deeply connected to your faith and still feel othered from a piece of your own practice? This week, in…
- Why Rest Doesn't Cure Burnout: A Conversation with My Friend, Zisi Zirkind · 48 mntToday, I sit down with my friend, Zisi Zirkind for an unscripted conversation about burnout, motherhood, faith, friendship, and the holy delusion of believing your soul is needed…
- Loved Into Existence: A Soulful Guide to Sefiras Ha'Omer | Chana Kalmenson · 1 jam 13 mntA conversation with Chana Kalmenson: shlucha of Chabad of Belgravia in London, poet, and teacher of Jewish mysticism, on the Sefirot of the Omer. Chana walks through each of the…
- I Am a Dreamer | Jerusalem Open Mic · 1 jam 19 mntA live Human & Holy Women's Open Mic Night in Jerusalem, exploring the theme "I Am a Dreamer". A deeply moving evening of poetry, prose and song about dreams fulfilled and dreams…
- Hello, God: Building a Relationship with Hashem | Chana Bennett · 48 mntJoin our virtual Tanya class here: https://humanandholy.mykajabi.com/tanyaclass Chana Bennet grew up in the religious system, but found herself searching for something from a…
- Let It Be Simple: A Personal Essay About Motherhood · 11 mntA personal essay about motherhood, the way it awakens my childhood self, and a fleeting, luminous moment where I allowed myself to experience its simplicity. Sharing this as we…
- The Biblical Power of Israeli Women's Song | Ricka Razel · 45 mntMeet Ricka Razel, the Israeli musician who has been leading thousands of women in monthly Rosh Chodesh gatherings across Israel during one of the country's darkest times. In this…
- Can I Tolerate Uncertainty? Six Teachings About Personal Freedom · 22 mntNissan, the month of freedom, is an invitation for personal freedom. Today, we explore the many dimensions of personal freedom: lack of external attachments, knowing our life…
- Always Happy, Never Satisfied: The Inner World of Israel's Most Beloved Media Personality | Sivan Rahav Meir · 55 mntSivan Rahav-Meir has been on Israeli television since age six, and became religious at fifteen after a chance encounter with three girls who simply said, "Bo l'Shabbat." In this…
- What Matters More: My Grandparent's Name or My Own? · 13 mntThe Medrash teaches that every person has three names: the one our parents give us, the one our friends give us, and the ones we make for ourselves. In this episode, we dive deep…
- Darkness: Don't Leave Until You Bless Me | Kiki Newman · 1 jam 4 mntA deeply personal and Torah-rich conversation on facing darkness from within. Kiki opens up about her own journey with anxiety and depression, sharing how she moved from…
- The Things We Don't See About Ourselves | Purim 2/2 · 23 mntThe power of having our blindspots revealed to us, why seeing ourselves clearly (both our flaws and potential) is the beginning of all growth, the spark of Moshe in each soul…
- Becoming a Student of Life | Purim 1/2 · 31 mntA lesson from the Purim story about self-education, becoming a student of life, waking up to the gap between where we are and what is possible for our soul's expression in this…
- Religious Doubt, Jewish Womanhood and Accepting the Cost of Our Choices | Shani Taragin · 1 jam 19 mntIn this deeply honest conversation, Shani opens up about the origins of her love for Torah, a genuine religious crisis she experienced in college, and how wrestling with…
- Holy Laughter and Taking Ourselves Less Seriously · 20 mntIn honor of Rosh Chodesh Adar, we talk about the mystical underpinnings of this month of joy: why humor is the very space where contradictions can breathe, how the soul finds…
- Joy, Giving, and Letting Yourself Dream With My Mother, Rochel Lazaroff · 1 jam 30 mntA live conversation with my mother about joy, reflections on life when living so close to hardship, her work caring for people in their most tenuous moments, the privilege of…
- Truth Is a Moving Target · 26 mntEpisode sponsored by Naomi Gruber. Dedicated in honor of my dear father’s neshama, דב ברל בן יצחק . May his neshama have the highest aliyah! * * * * * * * Can any of us…
- Faith Is a Choice We Make · 1 jam 31 mntA conversation about the deaths and rebirths that we experience throughout our lives, the existential shift of motherhood, the personal language required to choose faith, the…
- The Nature of Desire | Charlotte Broukhim · 1 jam 28 mntA conversation about the nature of human desire, why we were each created with enormous wanting, and how to transform our desire to take into a desire to receive in order to give…
- How Could a Good God Bring So Much Pain Into the World? · 60 mntA conversation exploring the introduction to the Zohar, through some of life's biggest questions, like: Why are we here? Why do humans suffer? If everything is part of a divine…
- Is God Speaking to Me? · 13 mntWhere do I look for direction? Is G-d just speaking the world into existence, or is G-d speaking to me through all that exists in my life? The Sfas Emes teaches that the plagues…
- Mikvah is Your Personal Yom Kippur | Shoshana Manssouri · 34 mntShoshana Manssouri stumbled into the role of being a mikveh attendant as a young woman. Over the years, she has developed a deep reverence for the experience of accompanying…
- Shedding Who We Were to Meet Who We Are · 13 mntHow do the past versions of ourselves prevent us from experiencing who we are? How can we become more present to what exists in our lives, to the people, callings, and divine…
- I'm Not Comfortable Living a Life I Don't Understand | Raizy Fried · 1 jam 3 mntA conversation with Raizy Fried about discovering the Godly purpose of her natural personality, the way resurrection of the dead (Techiyas Hameisim) can be a practical, emotional…
- I Don't Have What It Takes: Why Moshe Stuttered · 30 mntWhat happens when we are called to a mission, but we don't have what it takes? Why is the world we live in one of specificity, where every person experiences a very individual…
- When God Says No: A Live Podcast About Trust | Miriam Rubenstein · 47 mntHow do we trust God when we face unfathomable challenges in our lives? How do we believe that God is good when He says no to the things we most want? How can we expand our…
- The Ache Beneath the Happy Ending: Why Yosef Wept · 23 mntThere are so many bittersweet flavors to our emotional landscape: our grief intermingled with relief, the tears of compassion when those who have hurt us express their regrets…
- God as an Encounter, Not a Belief | Dr. Mijal Bitton · 49 mntIs the life of a Jew an individual journey with God or a communal one? What is being asked of the Jewish people right now? When your faith fractures, how do you find wholeness…







