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Survival Guide for a Spiritual Wilderness: The Torah of Miriam

Judaism Unbound, Temple of the Stranger

In this challenging time when many feel alienated from traditional Jewish spaces, Survival Guide for a Spiritual Wilderness offers a spiritual home for listeners seeking to connect Jewish ancestral feminist wisdom with their own svara (moral intuition). Each episode of this limited series delves into a different story of our ancestor Miriam, illuminating her mystical teachings and offering practical tools for navigating and flourishing in personal or political spiritual wildernesses. This podcast charts a radical, fresh Jewish path for its listeners and the world.

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  • 6 episodes
  • Updated Mar 10, 2025

Episodes6

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  • Mar 10, 2025 · 32 min

    Episode 5: Be’er Miriam - The Well of Miriam

    Miriam’s well sustained her people step by step in the wilderness. This episode invites listeners to tap into this wellspring of belonging, as well as the Tao de Ching, what it means to be a Miriam person, twilight creations, the mystical meaning of wells, Lakewood New Jersey, and a practice for bringing Miriam’s wisdom to life.

  • Mar 3, 2025 · 29 min

    Episode 4: Shiru L’Adonai - Sing Right [the F*ck] Now

    Amid pain and fear, joy can sometimes feel like betrayal. Yet, the mystics point out that Miriam’s joyful song at the Red Sea is a major liberatory act. Our Survival Guide Miriam has some sharp and clear advice on the subject that we’ll talk about in this week’s episode, along with tambourines, Somatic Experiencing, the mystical power and gender politics of a circle, bell hooks, and a practice for bringing Miriam’s living Torah into our own lives.

  • Feb 24, 2025 · 29 min

    Episode 3: Tehora He - Inviolable Goodness

    In moments of polarization, the wisdom of Tehora He — the recognition of inviolable goodness in all people—can be a revolutionary tool. In this episode, R' Jericho talks about seventy faces, checking Biblical assumptions, Tehora he/It is pure, pre-prayer tests, Hitler’s daughter, two villains from one of my own spiritual wildernesses, Anne Frank, and a practice for bringing Miriam’s living Torah into our own lives.

  • Feb 17, 2025 · 32 min

    Episode 2: Chakeh-Mah - Wait for What

    Delving into Miriam’s Torah of patience and presence, this episode explores the Jewish mystical teaching of Chakeh-Mah, the ability to “wait for what.” R' Jericho talks about the definition of wisdom, Wait for What, what kind of salt we want to be, a concussion, descent for the sake of ascent, why you’re alive in this moment, and a practice for bringing Miriam’s living Torah into our own lives.

  • Feb 10, 2025 · 30 min

    Episode 1: Spiritual Chutzpah

    This episode introduces the spiritual guide Morah Miriam as an ancestor of boldness and audacity and defines spiritual chutzpah as essential living Torah from Miriam that empower us to act courageously. R' Jericho talks about the power of a Sufi sermon, the narrow place, Spiritual Chutzpah, razzle dazzle slave economics, time travel, moishiachtzeit, and a practice for bringing Miriam’s living Torah into our own lives.

  • Jan 16, 2025 · 4 min

    Trailer

    Temple of the Stranger x Judaism Unbound partner in bringing you a new podcast for this new year: “Survival Guide for a Spiritual Wilderness: The Torah of Miriam” Transformative teachings of living Torah from our ancestor Miriam to help us navigate the spiritual wilderness of this political moment, and the spiritual wilderness of our personal lives with creator and host, R’Jericho Vincent.