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19 episodes
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Benjamin EpsteinExplicit
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Date created
2026/07/27
Latest episode
2026/10/17
Average duration
17 min.
Release period
5 days
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The Goal Is Soul is a place to stop, catch your breath, and remember what really matters. I'm Dr. Benjy Epstein, a clinical psychologist in Jerusalem, and this is your guide to living with more courage, presence, and soul. Each week we'll share two episodes, usually ten to fifteen minutes each. Soul Talk is a short teaching that begins with something familiar from psychology and opens into the older contemplative and spiritual traditions. Soul Practice is a guided mindfulness meditation built to move the teaching from your head into your body, and finally into your soul. Anxiety. Burnout. Grief. Addiction. Loneliness. The feeling that you're never quite here. Welcome all of yourself here. Beneath every role, you will always uncover what’s been there all along… the soul. Consider this your weekly reminder to be here now. Together. New episodes every Sunday at 7 PM ET, to start your week with intention and soul. Contact: [email protected]
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Soul Practice: Befriending Your Anxious Mind
2026/10/17
If you struggle with anxiety, this one's for you. A meditation for when the chest is tight and the mind won't stop running. We find an anchor, soften what's been bracing, and meet the fear the way we'd meet a scared child, with a hand on the heart and a few kind words.
"Safe and at home in this breath. Safe and at home in this moment. Safe and at home in this life."
Pair with this week's Soul Talk: Calming Your Anxious Mind.
WhatsApp → https://www.thegoalissoul.com/whatsapp
YouTube → @goalissoul
This week's soul is sponsored in memory of Gayle Myers Sock, Mazel bat Reuven, a true soul warrior, by the Sock family, and in memory of the victims of October 7th, with hope for the survivors.
https://www.tribeofnova.com
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Soul Talk: Calming Your Anxious Mind
2026/10/17
If you struggle with anxiety, this one’s for you. Why panic feels so inescapable every single time, the second arrow we shoot into ourselves, and what Rebbe Nachman really meant about the narrow bridge.
“The main thing is to never make yourself afraid.”
Pair with this week’s Soul Practice: Befriending the Anxious Mind.
WhatsApp → https://www.thegoalissoul.com/whatsapp
YouTube → @goalissoul
This week's soul is sponsored in memory of Gayle Myers Sock, Mazel bat Reuven, a true soul warrior, by the Sock family, and in memory of the victims of October 7th, with hope for the survivors.
https://www.tribeofnova.com
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Soul Practice: A Meditation for the Laundry After the Ecstasy
2026/10/10
In this episode: the crash that comes seventy-two hours after the peak, the Motzai Shabbos blues, and what happens when the afterglow becomes just "after." And why the Chassidic masters say God wanted a dwelling place down here, in the traffic and the dishes, and in Fugazi's waiting room.
"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."
This week's Soul Practice brings it home. Come sit with me there.
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This week's soul is sponsored by Timbuk2.
Soul Talk: After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
2026/10/10
In this episode: the crash that comes seventy-two hours after the peak, the Motzai Shabbos blues, and what happens when the afterglow becomes just "after." And why the Chassidic masters say God wanted a dwelling place down here, in the traffic and the dishes, and in Fugazi's waiting room.
"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."
Pair with this week's Soul Practice: https://youtu.be/PTJpKWfbQ2Y
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YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@GoalisSoul
This week's soul is sponsored by Timbuk2.
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Soul Practice: The Joy of Impermanence | A Sukkot Meditation
2026/09/26
A meditation for Sukkot. Letting go of what isn't, and being with what is, fully.
"The joy is in the letting go itself."
Pair with this week's Soul Talk.
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YouTube → @goalissoul
Chag sameach. The Goal Is Soul.
Soul Talk: The Joy of Impermanence
2026/09/26
In this episode: can you lay terra firma over the fundamental groundlessness of being human? The sukkah, whose core feature is that it's impermanent. And Rav Kook on why the joy of Sukkot comes from exactly that.
With Pema Chödrön, Alan Watts, and Rav Kook.
"Each now is forever."
Pair with this week's Soul Practice.
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YouTube → @goalissoul
This week's soul is sponsored by soul brother Corey Fuchs.
Chag sameach. The Goal Is Soul.
Soul Practice: Entering Yom Kippur: The Practice of Letting Go | A Guided Meditation
2026/09/14
In this episode: a meditation on release. The story that keeps you in your smaller self. The craving. The busyness. The fear, the pride, the anger.
"Just as I am obligated to believe in God, I am obligated to believe in myself."
Closing on the ease of teshuvah — that it can happen b'rega echad, in one moment, right now.
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YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@GoalisSoul
Gmar chasima tova. The Goal Is Soul.
Soul Talk: Entering Yom Kippur
2026/09/14
In this episode: why the holiest day of the Jewish calendar opens with a dry legal declaration instead of a prayer. What we're actually annulling. And what it means that the Master of the world has vows holding Him back too.
Teachings from Rav Moshe Weinberger shlita, the Baal HaTanya, and Rav Soloveitchik's Al HaTeshuvah.
"Kol Nidrei is the gate. And you don't worship the gate — you go into the inner temple."
WhatsApp → https://www.thegoalissoul.com/whatsapp
YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@GoalisSoul
This week's Soul is sponsored by Full Court Press, in honor of its clients and employees as they celebrate 25 years of using strategic communications to drive social change, and in the merit of our brave soldiers of the IDF. Thank you brother bear.
Gmar Chasima tova. The Goal Is Soul.
Soul Practice: Begin Again
2026/09/06
This week's practice is a meditation on beginning again.
What would it look like to bring this mindset to your day. To the people you love. To yourself.
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YouTube → @goalissoul
Brought to you by soul brother Brandon.
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Soul Talk: Infinite Possibilities
2026/09/06
In this episode: what happens when you bring beginner's mind to your actual life. To this moment. To the people closest to you. To yourself.
What it means to meet what you already know as though you're seeing it for the first time.
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few." (Shunryu Suzuki)
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YouTube → @goalissoul
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Brought to you by soul brother Brandon Bier
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Soul Practice: I have arrived. I am home. Mantra meditation
2026/08/30
This week we sit with a mantra.
I have arrived. I am home.
Shivti b'veis Adonai kol yemei chayai.
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YouTube → @goalissoul
Brought to you by the Blue Melody Group.
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Soul Talk: Finding Refuge
2026/08/30
We are all seeking refuge. Most of what we run to holds for a while and then gives out. The phone, the drink, the busyness. True refuge is the place that holds every time you come to it.
Arei miklat tihyena lachem — "they shall be cities of refuge for you." (Bamidbar 35:11)
"Be a refuge unto yourself."
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Brought to you by the Blue Melody Group.
instagram.com/bluemelodygroup
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Soul Practice: Nowhere Else to Be
2026/08/23
A ten-minute sit on presence.
Where are you? Here. What time is it? Now.
A guided practice for coming back, returning to the breath, to the body, to what's actually here. Whatever the heart brings is welcome.
Sit upright, eyes gently closed, and join me.
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YouTube → @goalissoul
Brought to you by Warby Parker.
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Soul Talk: Be Here Now
2026/08/23
Everything you're looking for is already here. And now.
In this episode: what happens when the striving stops. The difference between becoming and being. Where the sacred actually lives, and why it's closer than you think.
Soul Practice this week is a ten minute sit on presence.
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YouTube → @goalissoul
Brought to you by Warby Parker.
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Soul Practice: A Meditation on Entering the Sacred Pause
2026/08/17
"Do you take regular visits to yourself?"
— Rumi
Ten minutes to pause and return to center. Follow along as I guide you through stopping, taking a breath, observing what's here, and proceeding back into your day with a little more space than you had before.
If you're driving or walking, keep your eyes open and stay safe. Just listen along.
Paired with Soul Talk: The Sacred Pause.
Join us on WhatsApp: thegoalissoul.com/whatsapp
Brought to you by Gourmet Glatt.
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AmSiegel223 2026/09/15
Wow!
Came across Dr. Rav Benjy when searching for RH meditations and wow, did he deliver. It brought me to this podcast, and his prior work, which has made...
Rivki W 2026/09/10
Awesome!
I am a high school principal and I introduced my students to this podcast as part of series we are doing on Jewish prayer and meditation. They love th...
Moshechaim 2026/08/21
Refreshing
very helpful. The podcast is refreshing and helps me restore my peace within. Highly recommend 🙂❤️
Corey #F 2026/08/21
The goal is soul
Be. Here. Now.
It’s all you need to know.
Dr. Benji brings your daily path onto the life journey.
breslovforever 2026/08/21
Life changing podcast
Incredible.
@123ezstreet 2026/07/29
Love it!
Very grounding and refreshing. Honest and insightful, taking mindfulness as is!
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