Weaving together interpretative translations, research, interviews, and sounds, Ways of Awe is a queer anti-Zionist audio companion for the Jewish High Holidays. Join talmud scholars, rabbis, and artists as they unearth the meanings, grammar, and ancient gossip inside the holiest prayers of the Jewish year. Created by Maia Brown and Shelby Handler, these audio collages range from meditative to liberatory, grief-stricken to playful, irreverent to awestruck, and from the ancestral to the immediate.
Show Notes Ways of Awe was written by Maia Brown and Shelby Handler, based on translations originally shared with the Kadima Reconstructionist Community in Seattle, WA on unceded Coast Salish, Duwamish land. All episodes edited by Maia Brown. Audio engineering by Daniel Guenther. Thank you to Ross Kirshenbaum, or Levoneh for composing our show music and to Peter Lippman, and Jimmy Austin for playing on the track, and to Jenny Asarnow for their field recordings. Thank you to the Jack Str...
12 Aug 2026
Al-Cheyt
This episode of Ways of Awe features the Al Cheyt prayer, one of the central atonement prayers of Yom Kippur–a primary part of the Vidui, or Confession. Show Notes Ways of Awe was written by Maia Brown and Shelby Handler, based on translations originally shared with the Kadima Reconstructionist Community in Seattle, WA on unceded Coast Salish, Duwamish land. All episodes edited by Maia Brown. Audio engineering by Daniel Guenther. Thank you to Ross Kirshenbaum, or Levoneh, and Peter Lipp...
12 Aug 2026
Kaddish
This episode of Ways of Awe features the Mourner’s Kaddish, a prayer that’s recited year-round, but has a particular charge during the Days of Awe. Show Notes Ways of Awe was written by Maia Brown and Shelby Handler, based on translations originally shared with the Kadima Reconstructionist Community in Seattle, WA on unceded Coast Salish, Duwamish land. All episodes edited by Maia Brown. Audio engineering by Daniel Guenther. Thank you to Ross Kirshenbaum, or Levoneh, and Peter Lippman, ...
12 Aug 2026
Kol Nidre
This episode of Ways of Awe features the Kol Nidre (“All Vows”), the prayer that opens Yom Kippur as the sun sets. Show Notes Ways of Awe was written by Maia Brown and Shelby Handler, based on translations originally shared with the Kadima Reconstructionist Community in Seattle, WA on unceded Coast Salish, Duwamish land. All episodes edited by Maia Brown. Audio engineering by Daniel Guenther. Thank you to Ross Kirshenbaum, or Levoneh, and Peter Lippman, and Jimmy Austin for our show music, an...
9 Aug 2026
Ways of Awe Introduction
This episode of Ways of Awe introduces the project through an informal conversation with its creators, Maia Brown and Shelby Handler. Show Notes Ways of Awe was written by Maia Brown and Shelby Handler, based on translations originally shared with the Kadima Reconstructionist Community in Seattle, WA on unceded Coast Salish, Duwamish land. All episodes edited by Maia Brown. Audio engineering by Daniel Guenther. Thank you to Ross Kirshenbaum, or Levoneh, and Peter Lippman, and Jimmy Aust...
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