The Eden Center Podcast

Gabrielle Hodes and Gaby Rahmanfar discuss talking to children about the mikveh and addressing their questions. Sign up here to receive this podcast to your inbox. If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider sponsoring an episode for $36/₪120  here .  

Gabrielle Hodes and Gaby Rahmanfar discuss questions around delaying the night of tevilla. Sign up here to receive this podcast to your inbox. If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider sponsoring an episode for $36/₪120  here .  

In this episode Sharon and Chana discuss risk factors for heart disease, how heart disease manifests in women, the importance of healthy eating, practical steps we can take in our homes and communities to eat more mindfully, and how Jewish law approaches these issues. Sign up here to receive this podcast to your inbox. If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider sponsoring an episode for $36...

Gabrielle Hodes discusses sexual intimacy on the wedding night and whether a couple must be together on the first night. Moderated by: Gaby Rahmanfar Sign up here to receive this podcast to your inbox. If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider sponsoring an episode for $36/₪120  here .

This month's podcast is about transitions, with a particular focus on the transition of menopause in a woman's life. Karen highlights Tamuz as a transitional month and draws meaning from the concept of 'bein hashmashot' (twilight) in Jewish sources. Karen then interviews women's health physio therapist Tali Ginsburg who shares her wisdom and experience on navigating the transitionary phase into me...

We are entering the month of Sivan, when the Jewish people received the Torah. In this month's podcast Karen shares her Torah insights on the preparation for Matan Torah as a model of inspiration for being organized. Then she interviews organization expert Rebekah Saltzman, founder of  Balagan Be Gone , about her new book Organized Jewish Life, exploring how organization can enhance marriage and i...

International guidelines recommend BRCA testing for all Ashkenazi women. The Israel Ministry of Health offers it to all Ashkenazi women. Chana and Sharon discuss the medical background behind this recommendation and how Halacha approaches it.

The Nisan podcast focuses on the process of preparing for Pesach as a time for positive change and growth. After some Seder insights, Karen Miller Jackson interviews Andi Saitowitz, a personal development strategist on the nature of growth and finding personal freedom. They relate this type of growth to relationships as well. Chodesh tov and Chag Sameach! This month's podcast is dedicated in memor...

In honor of Rosh Chodesh Adar Bet and International Women's Day, this podcast focuses on taking a moment to celebrate women and all they do. Karen interviews Shawna Goodman Sone, a chef and Jewish communal entrepreneur, about recognizing the importance of taking care of ourselves and having fun along the way.   For Shawna's Cocoa Tahini Cookie recipe  PRESS HERE . This podcast was sponsored by Lis...

In honor of Adar, the month associated with increasing simcha, our podcast discusses increasing happiness in marital relationships specifically through 'date night.' First, Karen Miller Jackson shares Torah insights into how to boost happiness and then interviews psychologists Dan and Dassi Jacobson (who happen to be married to each other 😃) about the benefits of a regular 'date night' Chodesh to...

In this episode Sharon and Chana discuss prophylactic surgery for women with the BRCA mutation. They address the medical, psychological, and halachic issues of surgery, and its effect on fertility, childbearing, intimacy and mikve and the challenges of premature menopause. Sign up here to receive this podcast to your inbox. If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider sponsoring an episode fo...

For Shevat, Karen Miller Jackson welcomes Dr. Naomi Marmon Grumet, Sandra Ben David and Malka Chana Amichai to the podcast for a chevrutah and roundtable discussion about parallels between Shemitah and Niddah and the similar messages that they might elicit. We invite your reactions and your thoughts on textual or theological parallels at info@theEdenCenter.com This episode of the podcast was spons...

This episode kicks off a new podcast called Medical Matters: Insights into Current Issues in Health and Halacha with Dr. Sharon Galper Grossman and Chana Even-chen. In this episode they explore current medical knowledge on Covid vaccine for children, alongside halachic questions related to vaccination and whether parents have an obligation to vaccinate their children. Sign up here to get this and...

In honor of Rosh Chodesh Tevet, and as we transition into Sefer Shemot, Karen explores themes that play out at the beginning of Sefer Shemot about the women who play a crucial part in ensuring the survival of the people, both physically and spiritually. It is these female figures who hold the sercrets of survival. Karen then interviews Yocheved Schrader, who shares her personal story to ensure the...

In this podcast connected to the month of Kislev, Karen Miller Jackson discusses different kinds of courage and bravery in women’s lives. Inspired by various sources about women heroines in the Hanukkah story, Karen highlights modern heroines and highilghts the courage of sexual abuse victims and those who work to make our world safer and better, in an interview with Shana Aaronson, Executive Dire...

This week we close out our year’s cycle of parsha podcasts. The Eden Center is deeply grateful to Karen Miller Jackson for her dedication and steadfastness providing us with fascinating weekly insights about social, emotional or physical well-being through the parsha! The Building Yourself Through Parsha podcast has been generously sponsored by Yedida Lubin & Avi Rosenschein in memory of Yedid...

In this week’s podcast, Karen Miller Jackson explores the water and rain imagery in the parsha and connects this with similar themes in the Yonah narrative read on Yom Kippur, the water of Sukkot and “rain of bracha”.  Finally she weaves these ideas into finding meaning in mikveh. We will be taking a break during Sukkot. Wishing you a Gmar Chatima tova and Chag Sameach!  

In this week’s podcast Karen Miller Jackson examines insights from Chazal about the process of Teshuva. From there she draws lessons about the parallels for repairing our interpersonal relationships.| Wishing you a Shana Tova, lots of health and happiness! If you are enjoying this podcast,  please consider sponsoring an episode  for $36/₪120  here . Sign up here to receive this podcast weekly to y...

In this week’s podcast, Karen Miller Jackson looks through the eyes of various commentators at the life lessons we can learn from the mitzvah of Bikurim. These including what we gain from “giving” bikurim, their expression of gratitude and how they can point us toward happiness. Sign up here to receive this podcast weekly. If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider sponsoring an episode for...

This week, Karen discusses how we can use the lessons in the parsha as a springboard for healthy conversations about sexuality with our children. This parsha specifically brings out messages about consent and respect within the sexual realm through interpretation of אשת יפת תואר. This is an especially important topic given the current cultural climate where we hear of rampant sexual harassment. Si...

In this week’s podcast Karen Miller Jackson discusses managing stress and anxiety. Anxiety is a rising challenge in our world today, from Simone Biles’ recent struggles to the continuing pandemic. This episode examines the Torah’s language with regard to exemptions in wartime as a framework for understanding anxiety. Following these insights, Karen interviews executive and transition coach Sasha W...

In this week’s podcast Karen Miller Jackson explores the parallels between the cycles of 7 associated with shmita and Shabbat and connects this with another cycle of 7 — in hilchot Niddah. Each of these cycles of 7 offer an opportunity to step back and reconnect be it with God, the land of Israel or within our marital relationship. Sign up here to receive this podcast weekly. If you are enjoying t...

This week’s parsha contains the basis for Birkat HaMazon. In this week’s podcast, Karen Miller Jackson discusses our connection to food and how Birkat Hamazon can help us find appreciation for things in our lives. She explores the relationship between the Bracha, food and the land of Israel, pointing out that we should not take them for granted. Sign up here to receive this podcast weekly. If you...

One of the happiest days on the Jewish calendar is right around the corner- Tu B’Av! In this week’s Parsha Podcast, Karen Miller Jackson discusses the themes of love and relationships both with Hashem and with each other. Sign up here to receive this podcast weekly. If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider sponsoring an episode for $36/₪120 here. On Sunday July 25th at 20:30PM we have an...

In this week’s Parsha Podcast, Karen Miller Jackson discusses the gravity of speech in the Torah and in our everyday lives, and then relates to the power of speech in changing one’s reality with regard to hilkhot niddah. This podcast is dedicated by Shelly and Erez Markowitz in loving memory of Erez’s father Yisrael Yechiel Markowitz and his grandmother Rivka Godinger, who both passed away in the...