Who is the teacher of Jewish ancestral healing?
Jewish Ancestral Healing teacher and practitioner Taya Mâ Shere engages spiritual leaders , artists, activists and visionaries on their journeys of ancestral healing, embracing resilience, and ancestor reverence practices rooted in Jewish traditions and counter-oppressive devotion. May this offering be a portal of connection, that we may root in positive resource, remember ancient ways, reclaim and innovate new possibilities, and be deeply nourished by the well of our loving and wise ancestors.
Who is Simcha Raphael?
Simcha Raphael shares how he first came to understand the existence of life beyond death, and takes us on a dynamic journey through Jewish views of the afterlife, and offers wisdom on how to show up well for those who are dying.
Who is Rachel Bello?
Rachel Leah (Reya) Bello shares with us Yemenite Jewish traditions, stories of her midwife great-grandmother and how the support of her ancestors guides her in her personal journey as a healer.
hosted by Taya Mâ Shere
In the Jewish Ancestral Healing podcast Taya Mâ Shere and friends engage spiritual leaders, artists, activists and visionaries on their journeys of ancestral healing, embracing resilience, and ancestor reverence practices rooted in Jewish traditions and counter-oppressive devotion.
Ep 2.1: The Blessing of Being Welcomed Home with Taya Mâ Shere
Taya Mâ Shere welcomes us into season 2, reflecting on ways ancestors shape our identity, offering insight into the complexities of longing and belonging and foreshadowing the Jewish Ancestral Healing season to come.
Ep 2.3: Reclaiming Persian Jewish Prayer Traditions with Galeet Dardashti
Galeet Dardashti takes us on a journey into Persian Jewish Prayer, shares exquisite compositions, and speaks intimately on weaving her voice with the voices of her ancestors, across place and time.
Ep 2.4: The Alchemy of Ancestral Plants and Moroccan Jewish Longing and Belonging with Mazal Masoud Etedgi
Mazal Masoud Etedgi, founder of B’samim Apothecary, shares Moroccan Jewish plant magic and sacred prayersong, and speaks into the challenges of longing and belonging in diaspora. Mazal offers insight into ancestral healing at the intersections of creativity, chronic illness and trans and non-binary identity.
Ep 2.5: Ashkenazi Herbalism with Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel
Deatra Cohen & Adam Siegel, authors of the acclaimed book Ashkenazi Herbalism, bring us on a journey into Eastern European plant remedies and the world of traditional Ashkenazi Jewish healers.
Ep 2.6: Living the Legacies of Jewish Mystics and Women Saints with Léah Novick
Rabbi Léah Novick, an elder of the Jewish Renewal movement, shares practices of connecting with ancestors of inspiration, and her work to keep alive the teachings of 19 century Italian poet Rachel Luzzatto Morpurgo, 12th century tsadeket Dulcie of Worms, Maccabean Queen Shlom Tzion and 16th century Kurdish Rabbah Asenath Barazani.
Ep 2.7: Building Just & Resilient Jewish Communities with Yoshi Silverstein
Yoshi Silverstein shares wisdom on sacred ecology, embodied Jewish practice, and building just and resilient communities. He welcomes us with grounding practice, tells stories of his Chinese and Askenazi lineages, and speaks on ways diaspora impacts the relationship between land, culture and ancestral home.
Galeet Dardashti
Iranian-descended composer and anthropologist Dr. Galeet Dardashti has earned a reputation as a trail-blazing performer, educator and advocate of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish culture. Dardashti is the first woman to continue her family’s tradition of distinguished Persian and Jewish musicianship.
Aurora Levins Morales
is a movement elder. She is a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi feminist and radical writer and storyteller, and an arts based liberationist since her early teens. She's the author of eight books and is always working on several more at a time. She believes the stories we tell shape the worlds we can imagine, which is the only way we can build them.
Koach Baruch Frazier
Koach Baruch (KB) Frazier is a transformer, heartbeat of movements, healer, musician and co-founder of the Tzedek Lab, a networking of practitioners working at the intersection of dismantling racism, anti-Semitism and white supremacy.
Daniela Labi
Daniela Labi is a Libyan-American feminist screenwriter, actor, singer, and body activist living on Tongva Kizh land (Los Angeles).
Reb Leah Novick
Rabbi Léah Novick is a spiritual teacher whose teaching and research has been focused on the Divine Feminine, referred to as "Shekhinah" in Judaism, for the last three decades. She draws on traditional knowledge, combining it with guided visualization and meditation in her workshops and ceremonies.
Qes Efraim Lawi
Qes Efraim is the son of Qes Zion Lawi and grandson of high Qes Lawi Zeno. His parents made aliyah as a part of Operation Moses in 1984, after a long and arduous journey from Ethiopia through the Sudanese desert.
Mazal Masoud Etedgi
Mazal/Maz Masoud Etedgi (they/them/theirs) is a trans/non-binary artist, arab/mizrahi/amazigh jew, spoonie/chronically ill person, Drama Therapist Trainee, community facilitator, clown, poet, and herbal medicine maker living on Ohlone land in Huichin Village (Berkeley, CA).
