2022-09-22
57 分钟In the 18 hundreds, there was this rabbi Nachman of Braclav who said, you cannot love your neighbor until you've made peace with your own dark side.
Because until you've done that, until you've owned your own shadow, you're going to project it on your neighbor and hate your neighbor because you're really hating yourself.
And that's also part of what we're doing.
Can I own my dark side?
Not live from it, but at least honor it?
So you've heard the call.
I've even said it myself.
I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual.
What does that even mean?
And why are so many people running from organized religion but flocking to some amorphous and ambiguous claim to spirituality that often extends not further than a sense of yearning for something more?
And is that okay?
Or are we leaving something behind it?
If so, what is it?
A part of ourselves?
A sense of wholeness and belonging?
How do we reclaim a feeling of connectedness and expansiveness and ease without also surrendering to the strictures of an organized religion that sometimes integrate elements of tribalism, separateness, and disconnection from our lived modern experience?
Can we bridge all of these gaps and bring them back together?
These are the questions we dive into with my guest today, Rabbi Rami Shapiro.
So Rabbi Rami is an award winning author of over a dozen books on religion and spirituality, including his newest, Judaism without tribalism and perennial wisdom for the spiritually independent.
He received his rabbinical ordination from the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion and a PhD in religion from union graduate school, and now as a congregational rabbi for over two decades.