Spiritual Separation in V'zot Habracha

Summary

David and Modya welcome Dr. Robert Barris to this episode. Robert is a NY-based psychiatrist, a deep thinker and a long-time student of Mussar who has been influenced by and learned from his father-in-law, a Mussar scholar from the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai. This episode brings to a close the Torah cycle and allows the exploration of spiritual separation (perishut) as Moses leaves the world and the Torah ends its cycle. We learn that through separation we can find the path to holiness. May we all find joy along that path.

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Modya Silver and David Gottlieb

Modya Silver is an author and psychotherapist based in Toronto. David Gottlieb is a faculty member in the Jewish Studies program at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago.

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