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
Va’eira: Breaking the Illusion of Separation
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In this episode I reflect on the story of the plagues, not as history but as an inner map. Egypt is not only a place we once left, it is a state of constriction that lives inside us. Va’eira is the moment when redemption begins to touch what has been numb, defended, or frozen.
I explore how the plagues are not random punishments, but precise corrections to a worldview that separates G-d from nature, spirit from body, masculine from feminine. Each plague confronts a different form of coldness, indifference, denial, misplaced passion, and invites warmth, presence, and responsibility back into the system.
Va’eira teaches that healing does not begin by escaping the physical world, but by allowing divinity to enter it. Redemption starts when we stop outsourcing truth, stop blaming ourselves, and become a clear portal for what wants to move through us.
Lea
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