Human & Holy

By 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. 

Episode Date
Light Upon Light: Chanukah Teachings from Eight Torah Masters
Dec 10, 2025
Holy Human: Season Six Launch Party
Dec 07, 2025
The Art of Gathering: A Farbrengen Starter Pack
Dec 03, 2025
Privacy Without Shame | Elimor Ryzman (2/2)
Dec 01, 2025
Do the Righteous Struggle?
Nov 26, 2025
It's All About Love: A Jewish Lens on Intimacy | Elimor Ryzman (1/2)
Nov 23, 2025
An Inward Life
Nov 19, 2025
Honoring Parents Even When It's Complicated | Ita Cagan
Nov 16, 2025
Should You Listen to Your Body?
Nov 12, 2025
Finding G-d in the Stillness | Helana Herman
Nov 09, 2025
A Book With Your Name on It: The Torah & Legacy of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Nov 05, 2025
After the Tablets Shatter | Chana Herzog
Nov 02, 2025
Lech Lecha: The Call of the Open Road
Oct 29, 2025
Raising Kids Who Love Their Judaism | Chani Heyman
Oct 26, 2025
When Spiritual Language Rings Hollow
Oct 22, 2025
What Bereshis Teaches Us About Co-Creating Reality | Charlotte Broukhim
Oct 19, 2025
Can Women Dance With the Torah?
Oct 12, 2025
Bring Your Sorrow to the Dance Floor: Sukkos & the Emotional Complexity of Joy
Oct 05, 2025
Yom Kippur Meditation: Accessing Forgiveness
Oct 01, 2025
Reconnecting with the Divine | Sara Mayberg
Sep 28, 2025
Start With Compassion | Matti Banon
Sep 21, 2025
What Do You Really, Really Want?
Sep 17, 2025
Demystifying Spiritual Leadership | Gitty Hecht
Sep 14, 2025
Awakening Oneness: The Legacy of the Baal Shemtov & Alter Rebbe
Sep 10, 2025
When the G-d I Inherited Became the G-d I Chose | Sophia Rivka Rossi, Shaina Liberow-Schmukler, Adira Shiff-Kest
Sep 07, 2025
The Body's Experience of G-d | Shimona Tzukernik [Rerun]
Aug 31, 2025
I Didn't Know Who I Was | Miriam Cohen [Rerun]
Aug 24, 2025
To Guide Your Emotions, Feel Them First | Ester Zirkind [Rerun]
Aug 17, 2025
A Sense of Self | Shterna Ginsberg [Rerun]
Aug 10, 2025
Instead of Why, What Now? | Freidy Yanover [Rerun]
Aug 03, 2025
My Stroke of Good Fortune | Rus Devorah Wallen [Rerun]
Jul 27, 2025
Is This Thought True? | Chayale Tzukernik [Rerun]
Jul 20, 2025
I'm Possible | Devorie Kreiman [Rerun]
Jul 13, 2025
That's a Wrap on Season 5
Jul 09, 2025
Singlehood, Self-Worth, and Opening Yourself Up to Receive G-d's Blessings | Jackie Glaser
Jul 06, 2025
An Engraved Faith
Jul 02, 2025
The Lubavitcher Rebbe's Impact Across Generations | C. Rochel Duchman & Srula Chaiton
Jun 29, 2025
Your Life is Torah
Jun 25, 2025
What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid? | Michal Oshman
Jun 22, 2025
A Spiritual Experience of Time
Jun 18, 2025
Mothers Shape the World | Miriam Tenenbaum
Jun 15, 2025
Why is Religious Art So Well Behaved?
Jun 11, 2025
Chassidus Through the Eyes of a Psychotherapist | Devori Nussbaum
Jun 08, 2025
When a Woman Finds Her Voice
Jun 04, 2025
Shavuos: A Journey Inward or Beyond?
May 28, 2025
The Torah Didn't Always Feel Like Mine | Lauren Nagel, Devora Pinson & Chana Arnold
May 24, 2025
Q & A: Maturing in Our Judaism, Friendship, Motherhood and Spiritual Ruts
May 21, 2025
Jewish Meditation: Breathing G-d into the Body | Zeesy Deren
May 18, 2025
Lag Ba'Omer: A Glowing Generation
May 14, 2025
When Doing the Right Thing is No Longer Enough | Bianca Benisti Kaffash
May 11, 2025
G-d, Do Not Be Far From Me
May 07, 2025
The Feminine Spirit: A Rising Force | Rivky Kaplan
May 04, 2025
Tznius: A Way of Being
Apr 30, 2025
Reclaiming Dignity | Bracha Poliakoff
Apr 27, 2025
A Modeh Ani Meditation
Apr 23, 2025
The Sacred Passage After Death | Elissa Felder
Apr 21, 2025
Do We Dare to Hope?
Apr 16, 2025
Cynicism, Wonder & Questions: The Four Sons as Four Identities Within
Apr 09, 2025
I Am Here: A Personal Journey Through the Seder | Chani Lipovenko
Apr 06, 2025
Who Are Our Spiritual Role Models? | Racheli Luftglass
Mar 30, 2025
A Light Unto the Nations | Inbal Levin
Mar 23, 2025
The Bedroom Is the Holy of Holies | Chanie Krasnianski
Mar 16, 2025
Who Do We Give Our Power To?
Mar 12, 2025
Walking Through the Doorway | Dr. Erica Brown
Mar 09, 2025
Believe In Yourself as Much as G-d Does | Rachel Jacobs
Mar 02, 2025
Live In a Way That Speaks for Itself | Dena Schusterman
Feb 23, 2025
Singing With Purpose | Shaindy Plotzker
Feb 16, 2025
Where Do Women Belong? | Laurie Novick
Feb 09, 2025
Can Your Soul Override Who You Are? | Sara Blau
Feb 02, 2025
Spiritual Chutzpah | Chaya Lester
Jan 26, 2025
G-d Was My Lifeline | Shternie Rosenfeld
Jan 19, 2025
I Am a Jew | Women's Open Mic Night
Jan 12, 2025
Live In a State of Flow | Nechama Schusterman
Jan 05, 2025
When We Lose the Hostages We Prayed For, Where Do Our Prayers Go? | Nechama Dina Hendel
Dec 22, 2024
Finding My Own Path Within Judaism | Gitty Rappoport
Dec 15, 2024
A Flicker of Faith with Malki Rodal
Dec 08, 2024
Rivky Kaplan: Learning How to Be, the Diminishment of the Moon, and the Seasons of Womanhood
Dec 01, 2024
Sacrifice or Desire? Rethinking the Foundation of Faith with Chana Silberstein
Nov 17, 2024
Dialogue with the Divine with Shira Lankin Sheps
Nov 10, 2024
The Depth of Simplicity with Chana Traxler
Nov 03, 2024
When a Woman Doesn't Want to Speak to a Rabbi with Esther Piekarski
Oct 27, 2024
The Sukkah's Embrace with Zisi Zirkind
Oct 13, 2024
Q & A with Tzivie: Is Therapeutic Language Authentic to the Tanya?, Religious Guilt, Plant Medicine, and Healing the Root of our Struggles
Oct 06, 2024
A Woman's Candle-Lighting Welcomes the New Year with Nechama Welton
Sep 29, 2024
Teshuvah: Self-Construction or Self-Acceptance?
Sep 22, 2024
The Spiritual Side of Money with Sarah Barash
Sep 15, 2024
It Could Be So Much Better with Tzivie Greenberg
Sep 08, 2024
I Found Judaism at Fifteen with Ariella Goldman
Sep 01, 2024
Learning How to Love with Menucha Schochet
Aug 25, 2024
Why I’m No Longer Waiting for Moshiach
Aug 18, 2024
What Is My Anchor? with Musia Baumgarten
Aug 11, 2024
Moshiach Consciousness with Nechama Schusterman
Aug 04, 2024
G-d's Timeline with Rochelle Fellig-Berzak
Jul 28, 2024
Opening Myself up to Life with Rachey Simons
Jul 21, 2024
A Text Message Could Save a Life with Hadassah Zirkind
Jul 14, 2024
The Rebbe's Impact on My Life
Jul 07, 2024
Is It Complacency or Is It Acceptance? With Rivky Chazanow
Jun 30, 2024
There Is Something Beyond This World with Racquel Esses
Jun 23, 2024
Where Is Your Love? Our Journey Through Infertility with Adelle Bryski
Jun 16, 2024
Angels Could Never
Jun 09, 2024
What Do You Really Want? With Yitty Gniwisch
Jun 02, 2024
I Fell Apart Into the Torah with Chani Mochkin
May 26, 2024
The Limits of Psychotherapy With Fraida Kaplan
May 19, 2024
Boundaries, Parenthood, and the Hidden Holiness in Our Creative Outlets with Rivka Marga Gestetner
May 12, 2024
I’ve Made the Same Resolutions for Ten Years with Esther Shemtov
May 05, 2024
Giving Voice to Freedom: An Evening to Explore the Meaning of the Seder in Our Lives
Apr 14, 2024
The Underrated Gift of a Farbrengen
Apr 07, 2024
The Joy of Humility with Chayale Hershcovich
Mar 31, 2024
The Jewish People Are One Family With Yaffy Newman
Mar 24, 2024
Figuring Out Your Soul’s Purpose, Moving Across the World, and Navigating Anxiety with Mushka Lisker
Mar 17, 2024
Permission to Engage With Your Yiddishkeit
Mar 10, 2024
Women of the War With Shifra Soloveichik
Mar 03, 2024
Facing Our Insecurities, Finding a Compassionate Judaism, Why We Gossip, Being Honest With Ourselves and More | Q & A With Esty
Feb 25, 2024
Co-creating With G-d, With Esty Raskin
Feb 18, 2024
Finding Your Place in Torah
Feb 11, 2024
In Israel, It’s Still October 7th: A Conversation With Journalist and Activist Bruria Efune
Feb 04, 2024
Q & A with Chana: Costa Rica, the Cost of Systems, and Chassidus as a Call to Live Authentically
Jan 28, 2024
Who Am I? with Chana Dubinsky
Jan 21, 2024
My Journey to Chassidus: Choosing a Life of Song with Faigy Blumstein
Dec 24, 2023
Letting Go of the Shame with Devorah Marrus
Dec 17, 2023
When G-d Sends You on a Detour with Manya Lazaroff
Dec 10, 2023
Reclaiming Pleasure with Rishi Hein
Dec 03, 2023
A Celebration of Chabad Chassidus
Nov 26, 2023
Israel on My Mind: Hindel Swerdlow on Faith Over Fear, Joy as Confidence and the Victory of the Few Over the Mighty
Nov 19, 2023
Choosing Joy with Rochel Lazaroff
Nov 12, 2023
Come As You Are with Raizel Deitsch
Nov 05, 2023
The Soul Makes a Promise with Nechama Caplan
Oct 29, 2023
Expanding the Vessel with Dena Schusterman
Oct 22, 2023
When It Feels Impossible with Eta Cotlar
Oct 15, 2023
Sukkos: Entering G-d’s Embrace
Sep 24, 2023
Choosing Life Within Life with Raizy Metzger
Sep 10, 2023
Chai Elul: A Raw Farbrengen About Being A Chossid with Sima Goldstein
Sep 03, 2023
Did You Hear What I Meant to Say? with Sara Esther Crispe
Aug 27, 2023
Returning to My Soul with Amanda Spiro
Aug 20, 2023
Making Space for My Humanity with Tzippy Piekarski
Aug 13, 2023
A Journey of Faith and Fashion with Joyce Azria
Aug 06, 2023
You Can’t Skip to the Happy Ending with Sandra Paul
Jul 30, 2023
Reclaiming the Choices of My Youth with Chana Kornfeld
Jul 23, 2023
Curiosity as a Gateway to G-d with Olivia Schwartz
Jul 16, 2023
Why I Began Covering My Hair with Esther Sitbon
Jul 09, 2023
A Conversation About Mikvah with Chassi Rivkin
Jul 02, 2023
Turning Wings Into Roots with Rivka Gilles
Jun 25, 2023
Gimmel Tammuz: The Rebbe's Impact 29 Years Later
Jun 18, 2023
The Rebbe Made Me Who I Am with Esther Sternberg
Jun 11, 2023
Teaching a Rock to Sing with Shira Jacobson
Jun 04, 2023
Life Is a Mirror with Rochel Flikshtein
May 28, 2023
Shavuos: Staying Awake to Life with Chana Rosa Bogart
May 21, 2023
Holding Our Identities Loosely with Dassi Zar
May 14, 2023
The Blessing of a Broken Heart with Sherri Mandell
May 07, 2023
A Life Made of Miracles with Sarah Korn
Apr 30, 2023
The Kabbalah of Color with Nechama Yaffe
Apr 23, 2023
A Flicker of Faith with Malki Rodal
Apr 16, 2023
A Liberation of Language: The Pesach Story as a Guide to Getting Unstuck With Gila Lowell
Apr 02, 2023
Living With Shadows and Light: The Rebbe's Wisdom to Artists with Rivka Krinsky
Mar 26, 2023
The Chassidus of Creativity with Amy Guterson
Mar 19, 2023
Instead of Learning More, Learn Deeper with Malkie Janowski
Mar 12, 2023
Tefillah Series Finale: A Farbrengen with Rishi Hein, Devora Freundlich and Kimberly Ritz
Mar 05, 2023
A Chassidic Journey Through Prayer
Feb 26, 2023
Keeping G-d Close with Shana Alayev
Feb 19, 2023
The Human & Holy Resource Center: A Heart to Heart About the Tefillah Collection
Feb 17, 2023
Opening Up the Siddur with Adi Bitter (Part 2)
Feb 12, 2023
Opening Up the Siddur with Adi Bitter (Part 1)
Feb 05, 2023
When You Don't Feel Worthy of Talking to G-d with Terri Klein
Jan 29, 2023
Getting Off the Hamster Wheel with Leah Rosenfeld
Jan 22, 2023
The Ability to Choose with Toby Hecht
Jan 15, 2023
Holy Intimacy with Rivkah Slonim and Sara Morosow
Jan 08, 2023
If We Didn't Cry with Bruria Efune
Jan 01, 2023
From Hunger to Fullness with Divi Bogart
Dec 25, 2022
Celebrating Miracles with Leah Rubashkin
Dec 18, 2022
Season 3 Launch: However Close You Think It is, It's Even Closer
Dec 11, 2022
The Shabbos Party Reimagined
Jul 31, 2022
“Not Today” and Other Tools to Maximize Your Mental Rest on Shabbos with Aliza Shapiro, LCSW
Jul 24, 2022
The Neshama Yeseira: Rest as a Return to Essence
Jul 17, 2022
My Journey to Shabbos
Jul 10, 2022
It's Not My Fault, but It Is My Responsibility with Zisi Zirkind
Jul 03, 2022
The Story of the Rebbe's Impact with Rochel Sandman, Leah Sandman, Bluma Hecht, Basya Deitsch and Bassie Deitsch
Jun 26, 2022
A Sense of Self with Shterna Ginsberg
Jun 19, 2022
I'm Possible with Devorie Kreiman
Jun 12, 2022
A Somatic Matan Torah with Shimona Tzukernik
May 29, 2022
Something You Can Smell with Shaindy Jacobson
May 22, 2022
I Didn't Know Who I Was with Miriam Cohen
May 15, 2022
How to Look Grief in the Eye with Chana Wasserman
May 08, 2022
Home as the Center of the World with Chava Green
May 01, 2022
Co-Author of My Life with Rivky Rappaport
Apr 24, 2022
Not Your Average Model Seder
Apr 10, 2022
Reverse Mah Nishtanah: So the Adults Will Listen
Apr 03, 2022
Stretching Into Freedom with Rivka Mazal Tauber
Mar 27, 2022
How To See Each Other More Softly with Rochel Holzkenner
Mar 20, 2022
When the Steering Wheel Gets Tight with Rivky Brikman
Mar 13, 2022
My Stroke of Good Fortune with Rus Devorah Wallen
Mar 06, 2022
You Are Not a Mannequin and Other Lessons in Jewish Beauty with Basya Weunsch-Reiter
Feb 27, 2022
Instead of Why, What Now? with Freidy Yanover
Feb 20, 2022
Jewish Femininity with Elana Kornfeld, Rochel Deitsch, Chayale Tzukernik, and Rochel Flikshtein
Feb 13, 2022
Souls First with Miriam Lipskier
Feb 06, 2022
Only This Moment Belongs to Me with Alisa Fellig
Jan 30, 2022
Longing and Returning with Shterny Tubul
Jan 23, 2022
Asking Questions to Find Answers with Kayla Goldstein
Jan 16, 2022
This World is a Garden with Dini Hecht and Inbal Levin
Jan 09, 2022
G-d as Parent and Partner with Chana Kalmenson
Jan 02, 2022
Instead of Juggling, Hold Them Both with Shternie Bell
Dec 26, 2021
Focus Less on the Obstacle, More on the Goal with Vivi Deren
Dec 19, 2021
Until You Feel It In Your Bones with Devori Nussbaum
Dec 12, 2021
Human Beings, Not Human Doings with Rivky Kaplan
Dec 05, 2021
The Life I Was Supposed to Have with Chana Margulies
Nov 28, 2021
Come Celebrate! A Birthday Party for Chassidus
Nov 21, 2021
Is This Thought True? with Chayale Tzukernik
Oct 03, 2021
Stepping into the Sukkah: My Journey to Embodiment
Sep 19, 2021
A Daily Conversation with Chaviva New
Sep 05, 2021
Expanding the Vessel with Dena Shusterman
Aug 22, 2021
If It Makes You Feel Alive with Menucha Schwartz
Aug 08, 2021
The Moment of Pause with Dena Gorkin
Jul 25, 2021
Come As You Are with Raizel Deitsch
Jul 11, 2021
To Guide Your Emotions, Feel Them First with Ester Zirkind
Jun 27, 2021
The Rebbe’s Impact: Five Women Share from the Heart
Jun 13, 2021
Louder & Prouder: The Jewish Response to Hatred
May 30, 2021
Angels Vs. Humans: The Court Case Within
May 09, 2021
Truth is a Mirror with Rochel Leah Taktuk
May 02, 2021
In the Ordinary Moments with Temmi Hadar
Apr 18, 2021
The Larger Vision with Rivkah Slonim
Apr 05, 2021
Three Steps to Personal Freedom
Mar 21, 2021
Creativity is the Act of Listening with Sara Hecht
Mar 07, 2021
Choosing Joy with Rochel Lazaroff
Feb 22, 2021
Self-Confidence Is Not About You with Hindel Swerdlow
Feb 07, 2021
When G-d Sends You Mail with Chavie Bruk
Jan 24, 2021
A Generation of Leaders with Chava Witkes
Jan 12, 2021
When It Feels Impossible with Eta Cotlar
Dec 27, 2020
The Chanukah Miracle Never Ended
Dec 12, 2020
The Soul Makes a Promise with Nechama Caplan
Dec 09, 2020
First, the Seed Unravels with Hadassah Shemtov
Dec 09, 2020
Learning to Receive with Hindi Kalmenson
Dec 09, 2020
Human & Holy Trailer
Dec 04, 2020