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Yakov Danishefsky: Transmitting the Jewish Story with Emotional Health [Divergence VI 1/4]
1 hour 7 minutes Posted Mar 10, 2026 at 6:12 pm.
.Rabbi Yakov Danishefsky is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist. He is the founder of Mind Body Therapy, a private group practice in Chicago. Yakov has semicha and a Master’s in Jewish Philosophy from Yeshiva University and is a popular speaker, teacher, and author on the intersection of spirituality, philosophy, and psychology. He is the author of Attached: Connecting to Our Creator: A Jewish Psychological Approach.References:Home Is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst by D. W. WinnicottReb Meilech on the Haggadah by Yisroel BesserThe Attached Haggadah by Rabbi Yakov DanishefskyAttached: Connecting to Our Creator: A Jewish Psychological Approach by Rabbi Yakov DanishefskyBerakhot 3aTzidkat HaTzadik 154The Baderech Haggadah by Rav Judah Mischel18Forty Podcast: Yakov Danishefsky: Religion and Mental Health: God and UsFor more 18Forty:NEWSLETTER: 18forty.org/joinCALL: (212) 582-1840EMAIL: [email protected]: 18forty.orgIG: @18fortyX: @18_fortyWhatsApp: join hereBecome a supporter of this podcast: <a...
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Our Intergenerational Divergence series is sponsored by our friends Sarala and Danny Turkel.In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Yakov Danishefsky—a licensed clinical social worker and the author of The Attached Haggadah—about the imperfect ways in which we transmit the Jewish story. In this episode we discuss:How do we deal with the lived reality that the Passover Seder isn’t a perfect transmission of our foundational beliefs? Why do some people try to leave Yiddishkeit while others stay in the community?What is the deeper significance of chametz and matza?Tune in for a conversation about the role of broken expectations in the story of our redemption.Interview begins at 12:29.Rabbi Yakov Danishefsky is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist. He is the founder of Mind Body Therapy, a private group practice in Chicago. Yakov has semicha and a Master’s in Jewish Philosophy from Yeshiva University and is a popular speaker, teacher, and author on the intersection of spirituality, philosophy, and psychology. He is the author of Attached: Connecting to Our Creator: A Jewish Psychological Approach.References:Home Is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst by D. W. WinnicottReb Meilech on the Haggadah by Yisroel BesserThe Attached Haggadah by Rabbi Yakov DanishefskyAttached: Connecting to Our Creator: A Jewish Psychological Approach by Rabbi Yakov DanishefskyBerakhot 3aTzidkat HaTzadik 154The Baderech Haggadah by Rav Judah Mischel18Forty Podcast: Yakov Danishefsky: Religion and Mental Health: God and UsFor more 18Forty:NEWSLETTER: 18forty.org/joinCALL: (212) 582-1840EMAIL: [email protected]: 18forty.orgIG: @18fortyX: @18_fortyWhatsApp: join hereBecome a supporter of this podcast: