Rabbi Gellman explores the two types of scars we bear in life – virtue scars and mistake scars. Virtue scars, the result of doing the right thing, are often reminders of moments of courage and the things worth fighting for. They may be the result of protecting a friend or speaking out for what is right. Mistake scars, on the other hand, are the result of moral weakness and remind us of our brokenness. 

In this second episode I consider God winks which is the name of the ways dead people find to communicate with us. Please send me your God winks and we can grow our collection. Just press “Record message” on our website godsquadpodcast.com (http://godsquadpodcast.com) and we can consider the weird but wonderful ways that our loved ones have found to us that everything is okay and that death is not the end of us.

In this first episode of the second season of the God Squad podcast which was recorded before Valentine’s Day I offer up as a love letter to my wife Betty my favorite words of wisdom about love.

The third in our series of podcasts on famous sayings we think are true but are not: “All I want is for my children to be happy.”

The third in our series of podcasts on famous sayings we think are true but are not: “All I want is for my children to be happy.” Episode NotesThe first reason this saying is wrong is that as it turns out that being happy is less like something you can achieve and more like something you already have by virtue of your innate personality. Wishing that your children should be happy is sort of like wishing that they be tall or beautiful or good in math. They either are or they aren’t and sadly...

The third in our series of podcasts on famous sayings we think are true but are not: “All I want is for my children to be happy.” Episode NotesThe first reason this saying is wrong is that as it turns out that being happy is less like something you can achieve and more like something you already have by virtue of your innate personality. Wishing that your children should be happy is sort of like wishing that they be tall or beautiful or good in math. They either are or they aren’t and sadly...

The second in a series of podcasts on popular sayings that are actually not true at all.

This episode is about experiences we all share on our life journey; and one of those is hearing old sayings that are uncritically accepted as true. Unfortunately many of these bromides are false, and getting to the real truth is essential to moving forward in a wise and balanced manner.

Spiritual balancing is taught in the wisdom of every world religion. Spiritual Balancing is the only spiritual wisdom that links the religions of the East and the West.

Episode SummaryThe second in a series of podcasts on popular sayings that are actually not true at all.Episode NotesThe idea that health is everything causes people who are unwell to loose hope. This episode is about people who accomplished great things while also coping with illness and disability. The first reason that the saying, “If you have your health you have everything” is not true is that if it is true then it also true that if you lose your health you have nothing, and this is not...

Episode SummaryThis episode is about experiences we all share on our life journey; and one of those is hearing old sayings that are uncritically accepted as true. Unfortunately many of these bromides are false, and getting to t...

Episode SummarySpiritual balancing is taught in the wisdom of every world religion. Spiritual Balancing is the only spiritual wisdom that links the religions of the East and the West.Episode NotesI learned this technique one day when I watched a workman carrying carrying two five gallon pails of spackling compound up some steep stairs in an old house we were remodeling. His euphonious name was Meladin Keladin and I asked him, “Meladin, why are you carrying two buckets of mud when you only...

This episode is about learning how to pray. It is not about learning the words in some sectarian prayer book but rather about learning how to give thanks for our blessings and how to develop this spiritual gratitude even if you have some problems with praying because of the beliefs contained in the prayers.

This episode helps to explain why angels are never too late. It takes up the universal religious belief that God communicates with us by sending real people who are the unwitting bearers of spiritually significant messages for our lives and it rejects the idea that angels are good dead people with wings and halos.

As to the question of whether there is life after death for our souls, there are only two options: either there is something or there are just the worms.

Are psychics and mediums real? Is it possible to communicate with the dead? This episode explores our need to deny death and our need to find a way to restore a connection of love that has been severed by death.

Episode SummaryThis episode is about learning how to pray. It is not about learning the words in some sectarian prayer book but rather about learning how to give thanks for our blessings and how to develop this spiritual gratitude even if you have some problems with praying because of the beliefs contained in the prayers.Episode NotesMore broadly, this episode is about learning how to do something new. It is about the amazingly useful common saying, “Fake it till you make it.” The feeling of...