IKAR Podcasts
Sermons, talks, classes, and more from IKAR Rabbis and the IKAR community.
Episodes
May 11, 2025 • 65 mins
A blessing for strength in spirit and body for a
new Pope in a time when spiritual and moral leadership matters more profoundly than ever.
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In a world roiled by seemingly unprecedented division and doubt, the
longing for spiritual meaning and for a life rooted in faith appears to
be growing ever stronger. In this session, speakers share their
perspectives and experiences of faith, and the role faith and
faith-driven communities can and should play in calming stormy seas.
This is an archive of a live event from 5/7/2025 that took place as part of Milken Institute's...
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To thine own self be true: Sharon Brous has let this advice
illuminate her path to becoming a rabbi. She was raised with a strong
social, but not religious, Jewish identity. The more she studied and
admired the humanity in the sages’ writings, the more Brous felt her
voice was silenced simply because she is a woman. Today, as an ordained
rabbi, Brous’s decades of hands-on pastoral care in Los Angeles has
cleared “a path to be...
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May 4, 2025 • 21 mins
…Because there is a space between
stimulus and response. What we do in that space is our choice. So please: tell me you’re scared. I’m scared too.
Tell me times are tough. Tell me we’re facing a narrowing landscape of
possibilities.
But please do not tell me there’s nothing we can do. There’s always a
choice to make.
Parashat Tazria-Metzora 5785—May 3, 2025
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April 28, 2025 • 66 mins
On today’s episode of Best Book Ever, Rabbi David Kasher is joined by Madison Margolin to talk about psychedelic experiences in the Torah. Madison is the author of Exile & Ecstasy: Growing Up with Ram Dass and Coming of Age in the Jewish Psychedelic Underground. She’s also Co-founder of the Jewish Psychedelic Summit and DoubleBlind, a print magazine and digital media startup covering psychedelics and where they intersect with menta...
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April 27, 2025 • 17 mins
This week was the 250th anniversary of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. In his story we see so many echoes of our current moment. What lessons can we take with us right now? And how does our parsha's story of Aaron, the high priest, help us step forward to carry out the tasks we are called to do?
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April 20, 2025 • 17 mins
Find the text study sheet here.
There are a number of
parallels between the creation of the world and the splitting of Yam Suf,
casting this dramatic moment of the Exodus as a kind of “recreation
story.” Which makes the appearance of a provocative midrash about an
Israelite woman picking fruit from a tree and feeding it to another that much
more fascinating… and I’d like to suggest, subversive. What exactly
happened in the Garden...
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April 15, 2025 • 15 mins
From 4.12.2025
Prepare to embrace the bold vision of Passover
(that we are all heading toward freedom, that pharaohs crumble and fall)
requires focus. Let's affirm the twin pillars of the Hebrew Bible
(chesed/lovingkindness and tzedek/justice) to gird ourselves for the battle
ahead!
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April 6, 2025 • 19 mins
Ours is not the first generation in which telling this story, reiterating these foundational ideas, is risky. Dangerous, even. And perhaps that is the greatest reason of all to tell this story truthfully.
April 5, 2025 – Pesah 5785
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March 31, 2025 • 64 mins
Guy Branum joins Rabbi David Kasher to discuss Ashera and the presence of a goddess in the Torah.
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March 30, 2025 • 16 mins
Let us not turn to the garden—or the theater, or the studio—to escape this world, but to enrich the soul, to strengthen our hearts to plant for a better future. Making art, tending gardens, telling stories, especially from within the narrowest constraints—all of these can be sacred acts of defiance.
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March 26, 2025 • 59 mins
This is an archive of IKAR's Adult learning class: The Amen Effect with Rabbi Sharon Brous
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Lunch & Learn from Shabbat 3.21.2025 - Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum in conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous.
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March 20, 2025 • 64 mins
An archive of Rabbi Sharon Brous's The Amen Effect class from 3.11.2025
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March 20, 2025 • 59 mins
An archive of Rabbi Sharon Brous's The Amen Effect Class from 2.25.2025
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March 16, 2025 • 16 mins
The rabbis radically reinvent Elijah. From violent zealot to gentle
peace builder. The path to the messianic era depends on this
transformation.
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March 9, 2025 • 22 mins
Using Jews as a wedge to break apart the world order is not new.
We must be honest about what’s happening here.
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March 5, 2025 • 87 mins
On March 3rd, we welcomed Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah, Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the forefront of a burgeoning new peace movement in conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous.
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March 2, 2025 • 58 mins
Rabbi Morris Panitz is joined by Professor Arnold Eisen to discuss his new book. "Seeking the Hiding God: A Personal Theological Essay invites readers to join the author in asking, perhaps for the first time, what they actually believe about ultimate matters of faith and doubt – and rewards fellow- searchers for ultimate meaning with reassurance that the search itself can be a source of personal fulfillment, vibrant community, and ...
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