Search for Meaning with Rabbi Yoshi

About Search for Meaning with Rabbi Yoshi

Join Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback as he talks with an eclectic variety of thinkers, artists, and change-makers about their experiences (Jewish or otherwise) and their own search for meaning and purpose in their lives.

Publisher

Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback

Category

religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Jul 2019

Latest episode

8 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 136 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Search for Meaning with Reza Farahan

   Rabbi Yoshi interviews Reza Farahan about his memoir, exploring identity, resilience, and finding belonging through his remarkable life journey.

2. 

   25 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Search for Meaning with Rabbi Michael Zedek (2)

   Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback interviews Rabbi Michael Zedek about the wisdom found in simple stories for readers of all ages.

3. 

   11 May 2026

   Search for Meaning with Lisa Edelstein and Robert Russell

   In this episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback sits down with actor and painter Lisa Edelstein and artist Robert Russell to discuss their powerful new exhibition, A Palace in Time, at the Skirball Cultural Center. Inspired by Abraham Joshua Heschel’s timeless vision of Shabbat as “a palace in time,” the exhibition explores memory, ritual, Jewish identity, family, love, and the holiness embedded in ordinary moments. Through Russell’s luminous still lifes of ritual objects and Edel...

Inside a recent episode

Search for Meaning with Reza Farahan

Published 8 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So this year I've been, you know, working with you. I've been doing my classes. I've been studying the Torah. And... I just, I felt way more connected. And so eating the haroset meant something. You know, those were my people, you know. Feeling more connected to like my family and my husband who converted. And it's just, it's been wonderful. I always felt like there were these amazing people over here doing this thing. And like, I just, I was always... a little removed from them. And this was the first time I felt like I'm kind of part of them as well. That image of someone sitting at a Passover Seder and really feeling like, well, that symbol is mine. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

28 ratings

Spotify

4.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 35 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

50

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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