More to the Story with Lea Rubashkin
Join host Lea Rubashkin as she seeks the sacred in the everyday and dares to ask the questions we often leave unspoken. Rooted in Jewish thought and spiritual curiosity, More to the Story is a space for bold conversation, tender reflection, and personal excavation.
Each episode invites listeners into deep inquiry through solo teachings, intimate roundtable sessions, and conversations with guests navigating life’s complexities with authenticity and faith. Whether exploring themes of identity, pain, belief, or healing, Lea offers a lens that’s both deeply personal and universally resonant.
This is a podcast for those who crave depth, who live between questions, and who know there’s always more to the story.
More to the Story with Lea Rubashkin
Toldot: The Strength to Stay Present
In this week’s parsha, I explore the story not only as the birth of two brothers, but as the unveiling of two forces inside each of us, the godly soul and the animal soul. I speak about Rivka’s clarity, her courage, and the way her prophecy becomes a map for our own inner work.
I look at Yitzchak through the lens of gevurah, not as passive, but as someone who mastered his instinct so completely that he could stay present even when everything in him wanted to run. And I explore Esav not as a villain, but as the part of us that learned how to survive, how to grasp, how to react, and how to protect us when nothing else could.
Toldot invites us to dig our own wells, to uncover the waters beneath the story, and to ask what it might look like to let our Yaakov and our Esav work together instead of against each other.
Thank you for listening,
Lea
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