In this challenging time when many feel alienated from traditional Jewish spaces, Survival Guide for a Spiritual Wilderness offers a spiritual home for listeners seeking to connect Jewish ancestral feminist wisdom with their own svara (moral intuition). Each episode of this limited series delves into a different story of our ancestor Miriam, illuminating her mystical teachings and offering practical tools for navigating and flourishing in personal or political spiritual wildernesses.
This podcast charts a radical, fresh Jewish path for its listeners and the world.
We are the ancestors of the future
Episodes
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Goddexx-centered. Mystical. Embodied. Experiential. Heart-nourishing. Rooted in Jewish ancestral wisdom. Open to all.
With support from Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah
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R’Jericho Vincent
CREATOR AND HOST
A scion of a notable rabbinic ultra-Orthodox family, Rav Jericho (they/them) was expelled from their community as a teenager for their rebellions and their questions.
After years learning from Buddhist, Sufi, and atheist teachers, they returned to Judaism on their own terms, excavating lost wisdom from our female, trans, mystical, and queer ancestors.
A first-generation college student, Rav Jericho earned an undergraduate degree at Brooklyn College as a night-student on a Presidential Scholarship. They hold a masters degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where they were a Pforzheimer Fellow. They are ordained by the Aleph Ordination Program in the lineage of Reb Zalman Schachter Shalomi.
Rav Jericho currently serves as an advisor to Beit Kohenet and the Shalom Center. A member of B’not Esh, they are a Wexner Fellow, a member of the ROI: Schusterman Community, and a recent fellow at Atra: The Center for Rabbinic Innovation. Rav Jericho has been named to the Jewish Week’s 36 Under 36 and Forward 50 for their work.
Rav Jericho is trans nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. They live in North Brooklyn on Lenape land with their partner, Dr. Ben Ash Blum, their two children, and their cats, Ziz and Griffin.
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Joey Taylor
PRODUCER
Joey (he/him) serves as the Executive Director of Bespoken Live, a radical storytelling initiative. He is also the producer of the podcast “Common Good” and teaches world religions in prisons. Joey’s artful story telling is obvious in the way he has curated and threaded this new podcast. Joey lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Ella Joy Meir
MUSICIAN
Ella Joy Meir is a musician and composer based in New Jersey. She has collaborated with a diverse array of artists and organizations to produce and perform cross-genre music for a variety of projects.
Highlights include composing over 180 tracks for Meta's Sound Collection and creating materials for Splice, iZotope, Bigger Story Music, Artlist, 411 Music Group, and Sick Muse Music. She is also actively working with several music houses, including Marmoset and Duotone, where she writes for advertisement and branding clientele.
Beyond her collaborative work, Meir also creates music under several monikers. As Iris Lune, she has released three EPs, two LPs, and a series of videos, earning praise from Billboard, which described her music as “a microcosm of swirling, authentic stories... with a tinge of electro-pop to tie everything together.” As Sol Reya, she has produced a collection of ambient meditation tracks that have been featured on prominent Spotify editorial playlists, accumulating over tens of millions of streams. As Blue George, she releases piano music, with her debut track featured on one of Spotify’s largest playlists, Peaceful Piano Music.