The Shema Podcast for the Perplexed
By Dan Kullman
Focused on practical spiritual growth, this podcast explores Jewish wisdom through real-life experience and thoughtful conversations, helping listeners build clarity, resilience, and deeper meaning in their lives.
Episodes (4)
The Shema Podcast for the Perplexed
Living in the Midbar
The episode explores the Midbar—often translated as 'wilderness'—not as a physical place but as a profound spiritual and psychological stage of transformation that every person must navigate. Drawing from Torah teachings, the host reveals that the Midbar is th
The Shema Podcast for the Perplexed
Episode 14: From Theory to Transformation
The guest, Rabbi Michael Cohen, reveals how the teachings of Rabbi Eliyahu Destler—often misunderstood as harsh self-criticism—actually offer a radical path to liberation: not by fixing symptoms, but by dismantling the childhood scripts that govern our adult l
The Shema Podcast for the Perplexed
The Korban System of Transformation
The Chathas offering, often seen as a ritual for sin, is revealed in this episode as a profound, eight-stage system for transforming intellectual understanding (Bina) into lived reality (Das). Drawing on the splitting of the Red Sea as a national model of tran
The Shema Podcast for the Perplexed
Tammuz: Rectifying Our Perception
The month of Tammuz, far from being a time of mere decline, is revealed as a sacred crucible for spiritual transformation—where darkness is not absence, but a concealed form of divine light. Rabbi Pill and the host unpack how the month’s core theme—sight—funct
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