Jewish Meditation for Everyone
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.
Burning Palaces and Broken Hearts: Cultivating Chesed, a Loving Heart
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on October 29, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Chaos, Darkness, and the Capacity to Heal: A Practice for October 7th
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on October 07, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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There is Another Way: A Mindful Path to Shared Humanity and Justice
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on September 16th, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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True Confessions: Softening into Teshuvah on Yom Kippur
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on September 14th, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Holy Sparks in our Distraction and Resistance
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on September 8th, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Beyond the "Me Channel": Emptying into Presence
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on August 31st, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Navigating "The Squeeze" of Av
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on July 16th, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Cultivating Hishtavut: Meeting Turbulent Times with Balance
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on June 10th, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Shining Through: An Ancient Blessing for the Modern Heart
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on May 27th, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Developing a Healing Gaze on Lag B'Omer: Surrender, Acceptance and Splendor
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on May 5th, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Here, Now: Counting the Omer One Breath at a Time
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on April 17, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Practicing with Maror: Making Space to Hold the Bitter, and Beyond
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on March 25, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Noticing the Buds Within Us
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on March 12, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Sharing the Burden
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on January 26, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Honoring the Purity of Our Souls
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on January 6, 2026. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Sacred Emotional Messengers: A Guided Practice for Tevet
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on December 23, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Not By Might: A Hanukkah Meditation on the Menorah Within
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on December 18, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Pleasant: Meeting our Pain in the Light of Tenderness
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on December 08, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Satisfied: Repairing the World Through "Enoughness"
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on December 03, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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A Pathway to Gratitude
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on November 24, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Sukkat Shalom: The Guest House of the Heart, Two Years Post-October 7
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on October 9, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Moving with the Flow: Receiving Wisdom Through Descent and Ascent
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on September 29, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Finding Steady Ground: Rootedness Before Rosh Hashanah
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on September 19, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Seeing Ourselves Through the Eyes of Love
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on September 15, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Belovedness in Elul: Small Shifts, Sacred Returns
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on September 11th, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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The Pause That Transforms: From Reactivity to Response
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on September 5th, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Seeking the Face Through Stillness and Breath
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on September 2, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Be Still and Know: Movement in the Stillness
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on May 28, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Becoming a Vessel for Blessing
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on May 21, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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The Gentle Covering: Atonement as Healing Practice
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on May 07, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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The Spiritual Power of Waiting
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on April 08, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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A Passover Meditation for Holding Bitter and Sweet, Tears and Hope
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on April 09, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Enough is Enough
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on March 17, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Responding to Hate as a Vessel of Love
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on March 12, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Thawing Out
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on February 27, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Making Space for the Sacred in Turbulent Times
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on February 5, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Permission to Pause: What's in a Name?
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on January 15, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Entering the Precious Circle
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on January 03, 2025. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Unlocking the Light: Meeting the Darkness with Mindfulness
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during the IJS Daily Online Meditation Sit on December 23, 2024. To join these FREE daily meditations live, sign up here.
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Sunrise, Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset
The meditation featured in this episode originally took place during a free IJS Meditation Sit on November 13th, 2024. To join these FREE meditations live, sign up here.
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