Jewish Meditation for Everyone

By Institute for Jewish Spirituality

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Pause in the midst of your busy day to renew your body, heart, mind and spirit with a Jewishly-framed mindfulness meditation from the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. In each episode, hosted by Rabbi Marc Margolius, an expert Jewish meditation instructor guides you through a brief teaching and meditation for relaxing your body, reconnecting with your authentic self, and connecting you with deep Jewish wisdom. Opening and closing music: “Baby Bird Niggun,” by Aly Halpert, used with permission.

Episode Date
There is Another Way: A Mindful Path to Shared Humanity and Justice
Sep 28, 2026
True Confessions: Softening into Teshuvah on Yom Kippur
Sep 25, 2026
Holy Sparks in our Distraction and Resistance
Sep 14, 2026
Beyond the "Me Channel": Emptying into Presence
Sep 04, 2026
Navigating "The Squeeze" of Av
Jul 24, 2026
Cultivating Hishtavut: Meeting Turbulent Times with Balance
Jun 12, 2026
Shining Through: An Ancient Blessing for the Modern Heart
May 29, 2026
Developing a Healing Gaze on Lag B'Omer: Surrender, Acceptance and Splendor
May 11, 2026
Here, Now: Counting the Omer One Breath at a Time
Apr 20, 2026
Practicing with Maror: Making Space to Hold the Bitter, and Beyond
Mar 30, 2026
Noticing the Buds Within Us
Mar 16, 2026
Sharing the Burden
Feb 02, 2026
Honoring the Purity of Our Souls
Jan 09, 2026
Sacred Emotional Messengers: A Guided Practice for Tevet
Dec 25, 2025
Not By Might: A Hanukkah Meditation on the Menorah Within
Dec 19, 2025
Pleasant: Meeting our Pain in the Light of Tenderness
Dec 12, 2025
Satisfied: Repairing the World Through "Enoughness"
Dec 05, 2025
A Pathway to Gratitude
Nov 26, 2025
Sukkat Shalom: The Guest House of the Heart, Two Years Post-October 7
Oct 13, 2025
Moving with the Flow: Receiving Wisdom Through Descent and Ascent
Oct 06, 2025
Finding Steady Ground: Rootedness Before Rosh Hashanah
Sep 22, 2025
Seeing Ourselves Through the Eyes of Love
Sep 18, 2025
Belovedness in Elul: Small Shifts, Sacred Returns
Sep 15, 2025
The Pause That Transforms: From Reactivity to Response
Sep 08, 2025
Seeking the Face Through Stillness and Breath
Sep 04, 2025
Be Still and Know: Movement in the Stillness
Jun 02, 2025
Becoming a Vessel for Blessing
May 26, 2025
The Gentle Covering: Atonement as Healing Practice
May 12, 2025
The Spiritual Power of Waiting
Apr 21, 2025
A Passover Meditation for Holding Bitter and Sweet, Tears and Hope
Apr 14, 2025
Enough is Enough
Mar 24, 2025
Responding to Hate as a Vessel of Love
Mar 17, 2025
Thawing Out
Mar 03, 2025
Making Space for the Sacred in Turbulent Times
Feb 10, 2025
Permission to Pause: What's in a Name?
Jan 20, 2025
Entering the Precious Circle
Jan 13, 2025
Unlocking the Light: Meeting the Darkness with Mindfulness
Dec 27, 2024
Sunrise, Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset
Nov 18, 2024
A Blessing for Entering the Night
Nov 11, 2024
Sukkot: Finding Joy in Impermanence
Oct 17, 2024
Holding our Heartbreak on October 7
Oct 14, 2024
Being a Living Amen: Showing Up for Life, Moment by Moment
Sep 23, 2024
Finding Shelter in the Storm
Sep 12, 2024
Holding Heartbreak in Silence
Sep 05, 2024
Sight and Insight: the 'I' as a Mask and a Window
Sep 02, 2024
Making Space to Respond, Not React
Aug 26, 2024
Full Moon, Full Hearts in Av: Practicing with Shema
Aug 22, 2024
When the Walls Fall in
Jul 29, 2024
Deveikut ("Cleaving"): Grounding our Lives in Awareness of the Divine
Jul 22, 2024
Sitting into Shabbat
Jul 18, 2024
No Degrees of Separation
Jul 15, 2024
Sitting into Tammuz: Holding our Heartbreak with Love
Jul 11, 2024
Putting God at the Center, Meeting the Truth of Each Moment
Jul 04, 2024
Soothing Ourselves in the Wilderness
Jun 24, 2024
To and Fro: Connecting with Divine, Through High and Low
Jun 13, 2024
Uniting the Letters in Love
Jun 10, 2024
Exploring the Wilderness Within
Jun 06, 2024
Being a Living Halleluyah: Practicing Praise
Jun 03, 2024
Love, Persevering
May 20, 2024
Showing Up, Moment by Moment
May 16, 2024
Entering a Month of Healing
May 13, 2024
Cultivating Compassion on Yom HaShoah
May 09, 2024
Sitting at the Front Lines, with Love and Strength
May 06, 2024
A Case of Mistaken Identity
Apr 22, 2024
Know Thyself
Apr 18, 2024
Breaking Open, Birthing Liberation
Apr 15, 2024
Seeing the World Anew
Apr 11, 2024
Holding the Cup of Joy and the Cup of Tears
Apr 08, 2024
God Is ...This
Apr 04, 2024
Finding our Purpose, Finding Joy
Apr 01, 2024
The Wisdom of Silence: Spring Awakening
Mar 28, 2024
Basking in the Good
Mar 26, 2024
Every Moment is a Question Posed to Us by God
Mar 15, 2024
Spiritual Cardiology: Cultivating a Giving Heart
Mar 07, 2024
What Comes Down Must Go Up
Mar 01, 2024
Trusting into Joy
Feb 15, 2024
How to Protect an Open Heart
Feb 11, 2024
Tending our Inner Fire
Feb 01, 2024
Noticing the Divine in our Bodies
Jan 25, 2024
Grounding Into our Roots
Jan 18, 2024
Shabbat as a Meditation
Jan 11, 2024
Now. Here. This. Yes. Perfect. Thank You.
Jan 04, 2024
It'll be OK (Even If It's Not)
Dec 21, 2023
Expanding Our Inner Light
Dec 14, 2023
Speaking with the Heart
Dec 07, 2023
Healing Our Shadows
Nov 30, 2023
The Shema as a Meditative Practice
Nov 23, 2023
Cultivating Trust in Trying Times
Nov 16, 2023
Drawing from The Well; Going Out into the Field
Nov 09, 2023
Even in the Heat of the Day
Nov 02, 2023
As the Stars of Heaven
Nov 01, 2023
On Our Inner Sacred Journey
Oct 26, 2023
Silence is a Fence for Wisdom
Oct 24, 2023
Come into the Ark of Protection, Light, and Love
Oct 19, 2023
In Hard Times, Begin with Compassion
Oct 17, 2023
Calling Out From the Narrow Places
Oct 12, 2023
We Are Always Building a Sukkah
Oct 10, 2023
We're All in This Together
Oct 05, 2023
How Tension Can Expand Our Hearts
Oct 05, 2023
Seeing the Good
Oct 03, 2023
The Trance of Unworthiness
Oct 03, 2023
Grounding in Our Basic Goodness
Oct 03, 2023
Into the Ocean of Wisdom
Oct 03, 2023
Meditation as Teshuvah, Returning to Our Place, to Our Divine Source
Sep 28, 2023
When We Feel Unprepared, Let the Heart Guide Us Forward
Sep 26, 2023
Cultivating Awe
Sep 21, 2023
Alone, Together
Sep 13, 2023