Real Rabbi NYC

By Juliet Elkind-Cruz

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As a rabbi, I like keeping things real, whether about my life, or about Torah. And I do it all with a good helping of irreverence. I try to be both short and sweet, starting with my own life, my struggles, and those of the world today, and connecting to lessons I can take from Torah. My goal is to bring you the meaning I find with a new and relevant perspective as I discover it for myself, leaving you with a blessing or a prayer for the week each time.

Episode Date
Difficult Conversations, A Passover Sacrifice & Metzora
Apr 18, 2024
A Serious and Total Eclipse of the Heart, Passover Cleaning, & Tazria
Apr 11, 2024
Just a Poem (and a little bit more) & Shemini
Apr 11, 2024
Lessons in Bravery from Death & Tzav
Mar 28, 2024
Come Sunday, Be Present, and Vayikra
Mar 22, 2024
Heresy; Create Tension, Get Attention, & P’kudey
Mar 13, 2024
A Lavish Ukrainian Wedding, an Owl, and Vayakhel
Mar 07, 2024
Stretching, Late to the Game, & Ki Tissa
Mar 01, 2024
Aliens, Whales, & Tetzaveh
Feb 23, 2024
Burying a Treasure & T’rumah
Feb 16, 2024
Sapphires Under God’s Feet & Mishpatim
Feb 12, 2024
Fantasy and Yitro
Feb 02, 2024
Cowardice, Bravery, & B’shalakh
Jan 30, 2024
Six Feet Under & Tevet
Dec 15, 2023
Thanksgiving Stuffing & Kislev
Nov 20, 2023
Bitter Heshvan Living Up To Its Name, & Light in the Darkness
Oct 26, 2023
Two Weddings, a Funeral, and an Unveiling
Oct 12, 2023
God Willing (Ha’azinu)
Sep 22, 2023
Newer-Truer vs. Oldy-Moldy (Nitzavim/Vayelikh)
Sep 07, 2023
A Hard Pill to Swallow & Ki Tavo
Aug 31, 2023
Zero Expectations & Ki Teitzei
Aug 24, 2023
Go Woke, Go Broke, Stone Throwing, Happy Elul, & Shoftim
Aug 17, 2023
R’eih and The Choices We Make
Aug 10, 2023
A Whack On the Head & Eikev
Aug 03, 2023
God is a Communist (Tisha B’av & Va’etchanan)
Jul 27, 2023
Which Way Do We Look?
Jul 20, 2023
On the Way (Matot-Masei & Am I Worthy?)
Jul 13, 2023
All About Magic (Hukkat & Balak)
Jun 29, 2023
Lords, Dukes, Kings, Gods, & Korakh
Jun 22, 2023
Weddings & Blazers; Fringes & Assumptions and Shlakh Lekha
Jun 15, 2023
Fire & Brimstone, and Lost in Torah
Jun 08, 2023
New Territory, Misogyny, Naso, B’ha’a’lot’cha.
Jun 01, 2023
Please Count Me In & Bamidbar
May 18, 2023
Walk With Me & B’har/B’khukotai
May 12, 2023
Blemishing Judaism & Emor
May 05, 2023
An Imperfect Cup of Coffee (Acharei Mot/Kedoshim
Apr 27, 2023
Solitude, Loneliness, & Tazria-Metsora
Apr 20, 2023
Bucket Brigades and Sh’mini
Apr 13, 2023
Without Bathroom Breaks? (Tzav)
Mar 30, 2023
Tree Hugging, Rudeness, & Vayikra
Mar 23, 2023
Not just afterthoughts on ki Tissa! Vayakhel/pekudei & vanity and social media
Mar 10, 2023
Of Life and Limb, Stinky Messes, and Ki Tissa
Mar 08, 2023
Clear Drawers, Jumbled Rubber Bands, Empty Bells, and Tetzaveh
Mar 02, 2023
The Heart of the Matter & T’rumah
Feb 24, 2023
Bubbles & Mishpatim
Feb 17, 2023
Revelation, the Neurosis of Yitro, & Ten Utterances
Feb 10, 2023
Zigzags, Song, Split Seas & Split Minds of Beshalakh
Feb 01, 2023
Imposter Syndrome, a GPS, and Bo
Jan 25, 2023
Shortness of Breath, Hearing Problems, & Va-era
Jan 19, 2023
Keeping Things Real & Sh’mot
Jan 17, 2023
Beginnings, Endings, Whole-Hearted Walking, and Vayechi
Jan 03, 2023
The Truth of Your Life & Vayigash
Jan 03, 2023
Colors, Divided Souls, Higher Selves, & Mikkeitz
Dec 23, 2022
Dreams, A Land of Fear, and Vayeshev
Dec 16, 2022
And He Sent; Vayishlakh
Dec 09, 2022
Rock Bottom & Va’yetzei
Dec 01, 2022
Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes & Toldot
Nov 25, 2022
Old Man Rabbi & Chayei Sarah
Nov 18, 2022
Darkness, Light, and Va’yera
Nov 10, 2022
Frum Jewish Black Boy & Lekh Lekha
Nov 02, 2022
Numbness, Knowing, & Noah
Oct 27, 2022
A Baby and B’reishit
Oct 21, 2022
A Simcha & V’zot Ha-Bracha
Oct 13, 2022
Don’t Change/Surely Change & Ha-Azinu
Oct 06, 2022
Who Am I To Judge? (Vayeilekh & Yom Kippur)
Sep 30, 2022
Tears of Gratitude & Nitzavim
Sep 22, 2022
Milk, Honey, & Blessings (Ki Tavo)
Sep 15, 2022
Till Death Do Us Part, Ki Teitzei, and Fences
Sep 09, 2022
From Bloody Guilt to Mazel Tov & Shoftim
Aug 31, 2022
Seeing With Generous Eyes & R’ei
Aug 26, 2022
Look in the Mirror (Eikev)
Aug 19, 2022
Panic, Prayer, & Va’etkhanan
Aug 12, 2022
Words, Miracles, Life Expectancy (and other things)
Aug 05, 2022
Russian Dolls, Mattot-Mas’ei, and Tisha b’Av
Jul 29, 2022
God’s Image in Pinchas?
Jul 24, 2022
Curses to Blessings & Balaam
Jul 20, 2022
Laws of the Land: Hukkat
Jul 20, 2022
Hollywood & Korach
Jul 01, 2022
Unthinkable & Shlach Lecha
Jun 26, 2022
Jade and joy: b’ha’alotcha
Jun 22, 2022
Miami Vice; B’midbar
Jun 07, 2022
Love the Earth (and moss): B’khukotai
May 24, 2022
My People, My Mountain: B’Har
May 20, 2022
The Rejects of Emor
May 13, 2022
Cleanliness, Godliness & K’doshim
May 05, 2022
The Promise of the Land
Apr 29, 2022
Dayenu and Cancel Culture
Apr 14, 2022
Scrubbing It Away & Metzora
Apr 08, 2022
Spoiled Child, Birthdays, & Tazria
Apr 01, 2022
Deaf, Blind and Dumb? (Shemini)
Mar 25, 2022
Turning it Upside Down (Tzav)
Mar 18, 2022
How do we?? (Va’Yikra)
Mar 11, 2022
Scary Good Girls & P’kudei
Mar 03, 2022
That Can’t Be All (Vayak’hel)
Feb 22, 2022
I asked for rags? (Ki Tissa)
Feb 16, 2022
Bells on their robes and blood on their hands: Tetzaveh
Feb 09, 2022
Carving out the gifts of T’rumah
Feb 03, 2022
A wedding stuck in time and Mishpatim
Jan 28, 2022
Snakes or toilet brushes? And Yitro
Jan 21, 2022
Toilet Bowls and Walls of Water
Jan 14, 2022
Come into the Darkness: Bo
Jan 07, 2022
How Whole is Your Heart? (Va-era)
Dec 31, 2021
Oy! (Sh’mot & Solstice)
Dec 23, 2021
A Reason for Jubilation: Vayigash
Dec 09, 2021
Waking Up: Miketz
Dec 02, 2021
Prostitutes, Rings and Va-Yeishev
Nov 26, 2021
Yes to the Dress? (Vayishlach)
Nov 19, 2021
Need I Explain?? (Vayeitzei)
Nov 12, 2021
Broken Yolks and Toldot
Nov 04, 2021
Caves, chaos, and caving in: Chayei Sarah
Oct 29, 2021
Laughing at Angels: Va-Yera
Oct 20, 2021
Entitlement, Majesty and Lekh Lekha
Oct 15, 2021
Oh, No, Noah!
Oct 08, 2021
Was it Good or Was it Bad? (Breishit)
Oct 01, 2021
What’s in Your Head? (Sukkos & V’zot Ha’bracha
Sep 24, 2021
Push-Up Competition and Yom Kippur/Ha’azinu
Sep 23, 2021
A Plumbing Issue: Rosh Hashanah & Va-Yeilekh
Sep 22, 2021
Who By Fire?
Sep 03, 2021
Don’t F** Up; It’s a Commandment (Ki Tavo)
Aug 27, 2021
Starving Children? Where? (Eikev)
Jul 29, 2021
Enough Already! (Va’etchanan)
Jul 21, 2021
F & M: D’varim & Tisha B’Av
Jul 14, 2021
Attitudes, Platitudes & the Promise of Bliss: Mattot-Masei
Jul 07, 2021
Joie de Vivre: not so Pinchas
Jun 28, 2021
Real Rabbi NYC (Trailer)
Jun 23, 2021
Great Story (maybe not true): Balak
Jun 23, 2021