Search for Meaning with Rabbi Yoshi

Search for Meaning with Rabbi Dr. Tal Sessler

What can Torah teach us about anxiety, grief, resilience, shame—and the work of healing a shattered heart? On this episode of Search for Meaning, I sit down with Rabbi D

The Whole Heart: Finding Gratitude in Both Grief and Joy

Rabbi Yoshi’s derash from Beach Shabbat, delivered on Shabbat Nachamu — the Sabbath of Comfort that always follows Tisha b’Av. Beginning with a personal story from his o

Search for Meaning with Amanda Berman (2)

Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback welcomes back civil rights attorney and Zioness founder Amanda Berman for her second appearance on Search for Meaning. Recorded days after Tisha B&ap

Search for Meaning with Steven J. Ross

What really happened to hatred in America after World War II? Most of us were taught that defeating Hitler marked a turning point — that America emerged from the war mor

Search for Meaning with Gary Grappo

In this urgent follow-up to their conversation from June 2025, Rabbi Yoshi sits down again with Ambassador Gary Grappo — former U.S. Ambassador to Oman, Chief of Staff to

Search for Meaning with Ralph Shayne

In this episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback speaks with author Ralph Shayne about his graphic novel Hour of Need: The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews dur

Search for Meaning with Reza Farahan

Reza Farahan is known to millions as the breakout star of Shahs of Sunset. In this candid and moving conversation, Reza joins Rabbi Yoshi to discuss his new book, Memoirs

Search for Meaning with Rabbi Michael Zedek (2)

In this episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback welcomes Rabbi Michael Zedek back to the podcast on the occasion of his second book, People Are Like…: Stories

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 exhibi

Search for Meaning with Brandon Farbstein

In this episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback sits down with speaker, author, and advocate Brandon Farbstein for a deeply honest and moving conversation abo

Search for Meaning with Mandana Dayani

In this episode, Mandana Dayani joins Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback for a candid and wide-ranging conversation on maintaining a sense of purpose within an increasingly complex wor

Search for Meaning with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl

In this episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback sits down with a colleague and friend, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, senior rabbi of Central Synagogue and author of

Search for Meaning with Rabbis Ed Feinstein and David Woznica (Part II)

In the second installment of this wide-ranging conversation, Rabbi Yoshi continues his dialogue with Rabbi Ed Feinstein and Rabbi David Woznica — turning from personal st

Search for Meaning with Rabbis Ed Feinstein and David Woznica (Part I)

In this first installment of a special two-part conversation, Rabbi Yoshi sits down live with Rabbi Ed Feinstein, longtime senior rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom, and Rabbi D

Search for Meaning with Cantor Lauren Blasband-Roth

In this episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback sits down with Cantor Lauren Blasband-Roth for a thoughtful conversation about vocation, music, and Jewish lif

Search for Meaning with Professor Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

In this episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback sits down with Professor Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, one of today’s leading scholars of rabbinic Judaism and earl

Search for Meaning with Peter Himmelman and Rabbi Steve Leder

In this special episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback sits down with Rabbi Steve Leder and Peter Himmelman for a wide-ranging conversation about friendship,

Search for Meaning with Rabbi Steve Leder

In this episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback is joined by his teacher, mentor, and friend, Rabbi Steve Leder, for a wide-ranging and deeply personal conver

Wise Envy: Can we admire the arguments of those with whom we disagree?

In this solo episode of Search for Meaning, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback reflects on a timely and challenging question facing the Jewish community today: How do we disagree witho

Search for Meaning with Moshe Lobel

Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback sits down with actor Moshe Lobel, star of the groundbreaking new film SHTTL—a Yiddish-language, single-shot masterpiece set in a Ukrainian shtetl on