Shalom everyone! Welcome to the Light Lab Podcast. Eliana light here, and if you're listening to this when it has first come out, then a happy Cheshvan to you, Chodesh Tov, wishing you a good new month ahead. Yes, Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan has just happened. Many call it Mar Cheshvan because there aren't any holidays in the month of Cheshvan. However, maybe Cheshvan is not so Mar so bitter after all, first of all Shabbat is still happening. That's good. We love that. Second of all, this span of chagim, of holidays has been meaningful and beautiful, at least to me. And it's nice to be able to get back into a rhythm. How can we bring the joy and intentionality of the chagim, of the holidays, into our everyday life? That's my blessing for you this Cheshvan. I'm really excited to bring you an interview that we did a couple of months ago before the chagim with the amazing amazing Rabbi Mina Bromberg PhD, who is the founder and president of Fat Torah. And if me saying the word fat that way causes you to Oh, perk up your ears or maybe feel something in your body, I invite you to sit with that and continue. Because as you'll hear in the episode, what Rabbi Mina Bromberg has done with Fat Torah has been incredibly liberating, and really meaningful for me in particular, as a fat Jewish woman, and for hundreds of other fat Jewish people and allies, in particular, through the Facebook group of Fat Torah and the Instagram presence. And I've been in sessions, teachings where Rabbi Mina has spoken on these topics and it's been incredibly profound. Rabbi Mina Bromberg is passionate about bringing over three decades of experience in fat activism, writing and teaching and change making at the nexus of Judaism and body liberation. She's working on a book that will be coming out soon called Everybody Beloved, a call for fat liberation in Jewish life, and you'll get to hear her journey part of this journey as it intertwines with her Jewish and spiritual journeys in our interviews. She received her doctorate in sociology from Northwestern University in 2005, and was ordained at Hebrew College in 2010. Since becoming a rabbi, Rabbi Minna Bromberg has led a 250 family conservative congregation in Redding, Pennsylvania, released her fifth album of original music because yes, she is also a songwriter, a singer and a vocal coach bringing her spirituality and body liberation to vocal work, which is incredible. And she's also run the year in Israel program for Hebrew College rabbinical students. When she's not working on Fat Torah, she's a voice teacher, a vocal coach working with prayer leaders, which we love, and she lives in Jerusalem with her husband, Rabbi Allen Abrams and their two children. We're going to link to the Fat Torah website and social media in our show notes. I invite you to go and visit and to continue listening to this episode, especially, and even if you are feeling a little bit uncomfortable with the way that we are using the word fat. And if this is something that you want to talk to Rabbi Bromberg about, in a loving, respectful way, message her on socials and if you'd like to talk to me, you can do the same. You can also email me at eliana@lightlab.co. And with that, I'm so grateful to share my conversation with Rabbi Mina Bromberg PhD.