My mission is to tell a redemptive story in which the whole world can find its place.
Shavuot - Idealism and Ideology by Rav Mike
It takes a certain type of heroism to hold both the dream and the reality.
Biblical changes are happening in the Holy Land. Rabbi Yishai Fleisher and Rav Mike Feuer explore Parshat Bechukotai with an eye to the ingathering of the Jewish people to Israel - their eternal homeland. Welcome back to the Spiritual Cafe Series
Traveling can teach you about where you left, who you are and what the people you meet are called to be. A few take away thoughts from my US tour
We're back. The first episode in a new round of Spiritual Cafe where Yishai and I discuss the responsive creation in which we live.
Behar Bechukotai - Everybody's gotta serve somebody by Rav Mike
The quest is the context for life, the journey is life itself. The Torah's quest is for the goodness of creation, and the Jewish Hero's Journey in pursuit of it is made up of seven questions. A live class from R' Mike's US tour.
Another live class from Rav Mike's US tour. What does malchut, kingship, really mean, what are its three scales and how can they be a guide for leadership today?
A live class given the day after Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day. Taking Avraham as our heroic model, we explore how power can make the context for true independence - but what we create in that space depends on a different kind of heroism.
Atzmaut is more self-actualization rather than simple independence. In our quest to understand the meaning of this important day in our time, Avraham can be our heroic guide.
The 8th of Nisan is the yartzheit of two Jewish heroes, Eliyahu Hakim and Eliyahu Bet Tzuri. Executed for a political assasination in the course of the pre-State strugggle, their story teaches us about the warrior and the storyteller, two essential models of Jewish heroism.
Was eating from the Tree of Knowledge part of the plan from the beginning? And how did it pose the essential question which humanity faces?
Vayakhel Pikudei - Called By Name by Rav Mike
Ki Tissa 5786 Between the redemption of Purim and Pesach by Rav Mike
In the beginning, Adam and Chava were naked and unashamed. What is the connection between these two states, and how did the emergence of desire change everything?
Terumah 5786 Let your heart move you by Rav Mike
Adam's search for a solution to being alone gives rise to a primary spiritual practice - dveikut, cleaving to the Divine.
Mishpatim 5786 - a world of wonder by Rav Mike
Take the first few steps on the Jewish Hero's Journey with Ari Abramowitz as he answers the essential questions: what is good? Whom do you serve? Where do you take your stand?
The essential element that humanity adds to creation is avodah, the ability to actualize potential. This finds its first application in the power of naming, which is how we map, conquer and even create the world.
How we receive feedback says a lot about who we are.
In this episode we explore the "lo tov," the not good. It offers a deep commentary on the human condition, - as well as an answer to the 'why?' of creation.
Now that the human capacity for avodah, for actualizing the good which is not yet in creation, has been revealed it is time to enter the garden and take on our first task.
Bo - the power of the storyteller by Rav Mike
The second telling of the story of creation introduces us to an interactive world, one waiting for humanity to actualize its potential
From Divine cosmology to human existential anthropology, this class starts our exploration of the second telling of creation's story.
There is a certain type of leadership that looks beyond limited horizons
Vayigash - The heroism of a broken heart by Rav Mike
A point of heroism from the parsha - Yosef was ready for whatever came, and why he was can teach us all a lesson
Humanity adds a new face to creation, reflective of the Divine. But it's not without controversy.
Rav Mike's annual Hanukkah class in honor of the yartzheit of his father, Charles M. Feuer.
The four ways the will interacts in relationship are enhanced by a fifth - how it acts on itself. Tzimtzum, creative contraction, is the context for creation.
Shimon and Levi went beyond the bounds to rescue their captive sister. It is a heroic sory and a moral dilemma all in one.
If God is unbounded in creative capacity, why is it part of the Divine will that there be agents in creation?
Vayetze 5786: The power of sleep by Rav Mike
The relative nature of moral good defines the human perspective, but God sees the Essential Good of all creation
When a door is shut before you, how do you know whether to push harder or to walk away?
JHP - Teshuva - A Hero's Journey - September 2025 by Rav Mike
Tears of futility, words of hope and wisdom on the question - what model of heroism could best serve us now?
A backstory conversation w/David Goodwin. Follow all the way to hear the best anecdotes about my life in the woods!
A conversation on memory and self actualization. Rav Mike and Eitan dig deep into the struggle to be part of the national experience, and dream bid about the opportunity presented by national independence.
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