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
Vayeishev: Releasing the Vows Written in Fear
In this week’s episode, I explore the Torah’s first deep conversation about jealousy, fragmentation, and what happens when the challenge is no longer outside us but within our own family. The jealousy between brothers, the wounds inherited from their mothers, and what it means that Yaakov loses his prophecy for twenty-two years.
We look closely at how Yehuda’s choice to go down as part of his search to change the new reality ultimately becomes the beginning of his own transformation, and how Tamar meets him with a braid of modesty, intuition, courage, and wisdom that opens the portal of malchus. Her actions don’t just save her life; they create the seed of Moshiach.
I also share a teaching on vows, the inner promises we make in fear or pain that quietly bind our lives, and how this Parsha invites us to release them. And we end with the Rebbe’s lens: learning to search for the redeeming intention inside the messiest parts of our stories, the way Hashem does.
Lea
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