Tirzah Firestone: Judaism Unbound Episode 482 - Intergenerational Jewish Trauma
Tirzah Firestone is a rabbi, author, Jungian psychotherapist, and leader in the international Jewish Renewal Movement. She joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg for a conversation exploring intergenerational Jewish trauma, through the lens of her book Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma.
[1] ShavuotLIVE, Judaism Unbound's annual 24-hour extravaganza of Jewish learning and unlearning, is returning! From May 31st at 8 pm ET through June 1st at 8 pm ET, join hundreds of your friends from all around the world for the biggest event of our calendar year. You can register at bit.ly/2025shavuot!
[2] New UnYeshiva mini-courses, leading up to Shavuot, begin in just a few days (as this episode is released)! Learn more about Spirit Guides & Past Lives: Reincarnation in the Kabbalistic Imagination, Disability Torah and Spiritual Subversiveness, and The Torah in the Tarot: The Lost Jewish History of the Tarot by heading to JudaismUnbound.com/classes.
[3] Learn more about Tirzah Firestone by heading to TirzahFirestone.com. Purchase Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma via this link.
[4] For a recent Judaism Unbound episode that also explored intergenerational Jewish trauma, see Episode 480: Judaism Shouldn’t Be About Judaism - Brent Spodek.
[5] Lex references recent terminations of NEH grants by the Trump administration, including many focused on Jewish Studies (including study of the Holocaust). For more on this, see this article in The Forward.
[6] Firestone mentions William Ury’s book The Third Side. Learn more about the book, and purchase it for yourself if you’d like, via this link.
