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Embracing the Beauty of Sukkot

Sep 22, 2026 | Blog, by Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell, Senior Core Faculty, Institute for Jewish Spirituality

We invite you to reflect on the beauty around you this Sukkot with a teaching from Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell. 

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Mindful Torah Wisdom: Chayyei-Sarah with Rabbi Sam Feinsmith

Mindful Torah Wisdom: Chayyei-Sarah with Rabbi Sam Feinsmith

Nov 4, 2026

Chayyei-Sarah: Unifying Heaven and Earth¹ According to the Hasidic masters, it’s to become an embodied bridge between Heaven and Earth.We find a blueprint for this in Avodat Yisrael, an 18th-century Hasidic commentary on Parashat Chayyei-Sarah: R. Yisrael Hopstein², Sefer Avodat Yisrael, Chayyei-Sarah, s.v. V’haMelekh David zaken ba bayamim  Our teacher Reb Barukh³ explained the verse...

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Vayera 5787

Vayera 5787

Oct 28, 2026

There’s a wonderful story about the great Hasidic master, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. One day, he arrived in Lviv and approached the home of a wealthy, distinguished resident.   “Might I find a place in your home to spend the night?” he asked, without revealing his identity. “I have no room for wayfarers. Go to an inn,” the wealthy man replied. “A small corner in one of your rooms will be...

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Lekh-Lekha 5787

Lekh-Lekha 5787

Oct 22, 2026

This past summer I found myself in a writing partner relationship with Rabbi Zvika Krieger who, among other things, is in our Marbeh Fellowship for Senior Jewish Mindfulness Teachers at IJS. Zvika is working on a book and sent me chapters to read and comment on (it’s about God and it’s fantastic), and he made me commit to sending him 5,000 words of the book I’m trying to write about at-homeness....

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