{"podcast":{"title":"Weird Being Jewish: Three Rabbis Walk Into a Podcast","slug":"weird-being-jewish-three-rabbis-walk-into-a-podcast-6928861","podcast_index_feed_id":6928861,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/531302/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/531302","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/9/1/8/f/918f565fca8d048cd959afa2a1bf1c87/Copy_of_Copy_of_WBJv4_large-3.png","author":"Joshua Rose","episode_count":29,"summary":"What happens when three friends who are also rabbis get together to discuss Jewish life, religious life, rabbinic life and life life? Rabbis Jeffrey Weill, Matt Reimer and Josh Rose don't know but aim to find out. In the process they'll share their thoughts about pressing issues we all face - in the Jewish community and beyond.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-04T06:19:06.205061+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-being-jewish-three-rabbis-walk-into-a-podcast-6928861"},"episode":{"title":"S2e14  Circles of Loss and Jewish Mourning","slug":"s2e14-circles-of-loss-and-jewish-mourning","published_at":"2026-01-09T00:09:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-being-jewish-three-rabbis-walk-into-a-podcast-6928861/s2e14-circles-of-loss-and-jewish-mourning","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-being-jewish-three-rabbis-walk-into-a-podcast-6928861","url":"https://df5eebd6-2163-47f8-8a68-f15e4849c290.libsyn.com/s2e14-circles-of-loss-and-jewish-mourning","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/df5eebd6-2163-47f8-8a68-f15e4849c290/S2E14_Final.mp3?dest-id=4571497","summary":"In this episode Rabbis Jeffrey, Matt, and Josh reflect together on how grief actually works: unevenly, unpredictably, and often shaped less by moral logic than by story, familiarity, and perceived relationship. Prompted by recent acts of violence and loss, they talk through why certain deaths—especially of public figures who have quietly accompanied us through decades of culture and art—can feel more piercing than other tragedies that are no less horrific. Drawing on Jewish tradition and lived experience, they explore the idea that mourning comes in layers, and that not all losses land on the heart in the same way. As the conversation unfolds, they turn to harder questions about obligation and identity. Is there a responsibility to feel more when Jews are targeted, or is mourning primarily a communal and ethical act rather than an emotional one? From there, the discussion broadens to Jewish peoplehood, rising antisemitism, and the exhaustion many rabbis feel when public Jewish life becomes dominated by defense and crisis, often at the expense of Torah, teaching, and spiritual depth. They end by naming the tension between particularism and universalism—not as a problem to solve, but as a defining, often uncomfortable feature of Jewish life, and part of what makes being Jewish so complicated, and so weird.","meta_description":"In this episode Rabbis Jeffrey, Matt, and Josh reflect together on how grief actually works: unevenly, unpredictably, and often shaped less by moral logic…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2224,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/weird-being-jewish-three-rabbis-walk-into-a-podcast-6928861/episodes/s2e14-circles-of-loss-and-jewish-mourning/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-being-jewish-three-rabbis-walk-into-a-podcast-6928861/s2e14-circles-of-loss-and-jewish-mourning.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}