Podcast: Sacred Encounters & Empathetic Listening with Rabbi Sharon Brous

Oct 03, 2024

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Rabbi Sharon Brous is the founding rabbi ofā€ÆIKAR, a Jewish community in Los Angeles, and the author of The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Heal Our Hearts and Mend Our Broken World. In this conversation, Rabbi Brous emphasizes the importance of “sacred encounters,” people truly see and hear each other's stories, particularly in times of grief or pain. She also points to the Jewish ritual of asking the brokenhearted, “Tell me what happened to you?” as a model for deep, empathetic listening.

This episode serves as an epilogue to our series on the Peace Initiative for Israel and Palestine at Commune Topanga. You can listen to all the episodes from that series at onecommune.com/peace-initiative-for-israel-palestine.


About the Commune Podcast

Hosted by Jeff Krasno, the Commune podcast features thoughtful conversations for modern times. Not always comfortable but definitely needed, we explore both humanity and our human-ness. How can we live healthy, purpose-filled lives and be in service of something bigger? Guests include spiritual teachers, poets, scientists, philosophers, and activists for food sustainability, functional medicine, mental and physical health, and collective healing.

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