The Neshamah Project

Rabbi Ben is a teacher of esoteric Wisdom, kabbalistic and musical.

The Neshamah Project is a education podcast hosted by Rabbi Ben Newman, with 500 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Rabbi Ben Newman hosts The Neshamah Project, a education show with 500 episodes published.

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  Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 122: Riffin' with the Rabbis

  Sep 2, 20261h 23m

  In this episode of The Neshamah Project, Rabbi Ben Newman revives Riffing with the Rabbi with longtime friend Marcia Salter, joined along the way by Rabbi Shoshana Leis, for a wide-ranging conversation about what it means to truly listen—to one another, to uncertainty, and to the “still, small voice.” Together they explore truth and perspective, conflict and communication, Hillel and Shammai, Elijah, Kabbalah, and the difficult discernment between compassion, boundaries, and action. It’s an unscripted spiritual riff on how deeper listening might help us hear what is emerging between us—and within us.

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  Neshamah Project Episode 121: 52 Gates/September Both/And

  Sep 1, 20265 min

  In this episode of The Neshamah Project, I read “September, Both/And,” a reflection from my book 52 Gates: Reflections on Living. September carries its own kind of wisdom: the light softens, the leaves begin to turn, and beauty arrives alongside the knowledge that everything changes. This piece sits inside that tension—the strange human capacity to feel gratitude and grief at the same time, to love what is here while mourning what is broken. 52 Gates is now available as an audiobook on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/52-Gates-Audiobook/B0H9BWHVV1 And I have 10 free Audible promo codes to give away. The first ten people who email rabbibennewman@gmail.com can get a copy for free.

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  The Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 120: Sweetening the Judgements

  Aug 14, 20269 min

  In this teaching from the Degel Machaneh Ephraim, righteous judgment becomes an act of creation. Through the shofar, harsh judgment is transformed and integrated into compassion.

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  The Neshamah Project Podcast Episode 119: Taste it, Find it, Choose it

  Aug 7, 202613 min

  This week on The Neshamah Project, we explore three teachings from the Or HaChayyim on the opening words of Parashat Re’eh: “See, I place before you today blessing and curse.” These teachings unfold as a spiritual progression. First, Moses invites us to taste the deeper fulfillment of spiritual life for ourselves. Then, the Or HaChayyim draws on the Zohar’s teaching that each of us carries a nitzotz Moshe—a spark of Moses, an inner capacity to hear and recognize Torah. Finally, the word Anokhi returns us to Sinai, suggesting that the Divine Voice is still speaking and placing the choice between awakening and forgetfulness before us *hayom*—today, in each ordinary moment. Taste it. Find it within you. Choose it, again and again.

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  The Neshamah Project Episode 117: Interview with Professor Shaul Magid

  Jul 13, 20261h 20m

  Professor Shaul Magid (Harvard Divinity School) joins me for a conversation about spirituality and the political. We trace his path from the seventies counterculture into the yeshiva and Bratslav worlds of Jerusalem, his relationship with Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi — including their final encounter — and why he stands both inside and at the margins of Jewish Renewal. From there: peoplehood and what it's become, his position of counter-Zionism and what it does and doesn't claim, Korach and the friend-enemy trap, survivalism as a spiritual dead end, and ahavat chinam as a practice. We close with the tools he thinks Judaism needs for whatever comes next. Shaul's forthcoming book, The Scourge of Jewish Nationalism: Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum's Anti-Zionist Thought, comes out this August from University of California Press. Find his writing at shaulmagid.substack.com and his weekly Thursday-night podcast on Spotify.

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