Rabbi Matt Shapiro
Special guest
Rabbi Matt Shapiro is excited and grateful to be Temple Beth Am’s Director of Youth Learning and Engagement. Rabbi Shapiro previously served as TBA’s interim associate rabbi after six years of working full time at Beit T'shuvah. In his work at BTS, Rabbi Shapiro worked as a spiritual counselor, educator, and pulpit presence, bringing out his interests and skills as a teacher and pastor. He has worked in a variety of rabbinic and educational settings, including BCI, Mosaic Law Congregation, and Los Angeles Hebrew High School. Rabbi Shapiro looks forward to continuing to enhance and develop the wide variety of opportunities within the broad spectrum of YLE at TBA through building relationships, joy, and ruach!
Most importantly, Rabbi Shapiro is blessed to be married to Rabbi Sarah Barukh, his fantastic wife, and is the proud, grateful, and often exhausted father of Jonah, Eliav, and Rafael.
Rabbi Matt Shapiro has been a guest on 116 episodes.
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Parenting Through The Parsha: EMOR
May 17th, 2024 | 8 mins 12 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro explores this week's Torah reading through the lens of Parenting.
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Shabbat Sermon: "Traveling with Despair and Hope"
April 20th, 2024 | 15 mins 52 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro's Shabbat Sermon at Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles, April 20, 2024.
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Parenting Through The Parsha: Metzora
April 19th, 2024 | 9 mins 20 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro explores this week's Torah reading through the lens of Parenting.
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Parenting Through The Parsha: Shmini
April 6th, 2024 | 9 mins 21 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro explores this week's Torah reading through the lens of Parenting.
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Parenting Through The Parsha: TZAV
March 28th, 2024 | 9 mins 22 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro explores this week's Torah reading through the lens of Parenting.
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Shabbat Sermon: "It Takes Everybody"
March 15th, 2024 | 12 mins 3 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro's Shabbat Sermon at Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles, March 15, 2024.
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Parenting Through The Parsha: Pekudei
March 14th, 2024 | 8 mins 55 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro explores this week's Torah reading through the lens of Parenting.
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Parenting Through The Parsha - Vayakhel
March 7th, 2024 | 8 mins 40 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro explores this week's Torah reading through the lens of Parenting.
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Parenting Through The Parsha
March 1st, 2024 | 8 mins 57 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro explores this week's Torah reading through the lens of Parenting.
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Parenting Through The Parsha
February 23rd, 2024 | 8 mins 15 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro explores this week's Torah reading through the lens of Parenting.
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Parenting Through The Parsha
February 16th, 2024 | 5 mins 50 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro explores this week's Torah reading through the lens of Parenting.
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Rosh Hashanah Teaching: "The Healing Power of Dreams"
September 17th, 2023 | 19 mins 43 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro's Rosh Hashanah Teaching at Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles, September 17, 2023.
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(An early) High Holiday Sermon: “Dream Bigger”
September 9th, 2023 | 18 mins 7 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro's (early) High Holiday Sermon at Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles, September 10, 2023.
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Elul Learning Series: "Sustaining Stories"
August 31st, 2023 | 25 mins 45 secs
‘We sustain ourselves through stories and our stories sustain us. Rabbi Matt Shapiro examines traditional and contemporary frameworks for exploring this important and nuanced topic and how it is central to our tradition, and offers a practical framework for how we can share our own stories in a way that both provides sustenance to others and helps to sustain each of us."
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Shabbat Teaching: "Pedagogies of Plaster"
August 26th, 2023 | 20 mins 32 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro's Shabbat Teaching at Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles, April 26, 2023.
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Shabbat Teaching: "Retelling Our Stories"
July 22nd, 2023 | 26 mins 23 secs
Rabbi Matt Shapiro's Shabbat Teaching at Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles, July 22, 2023.