Detours & Destinations
Detours & Destinations
Podcast Description
Wisdom gleaned from life’s twists and turns.
“May all your detours be destinations.” Rabbi David Ingber received that blessing from a dear friend many years ago and never forgot it. The echo of those words continues to resonate and inspire today. Can we reframe obstacles as opportunities? How do we recognize when a stumbling block truly is a stairway?
In this new podcast, Rabbi Ingber sits down with thought leaders, changemakers, and spiritual seekers, for heart-centered conversations about the winding paths we take, and the insights gleaned along the way. These are conversations about resilience, transformation, the beauty and messiness of being human — a touchstone for listeners seeking wisdom in perilous times.
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Content Themes
The podcast centers around themes of resilience, transformation, and the human experience, with episodes delving into personal stories of overcoming obstacles, such as Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's journey from traditional rabbinic lineage to radical reinvention as a drag performer, emphasizing the concept of reframing stumbling blocks into opportunities.
Wisdom gleaned from life’s twists and turns.
“May all your detours be destinations.” Rabbi David Ingber received that blessing from a dear friend many years ago and never forgot it. The echo of those words continues to resonate and inspire today. Can we reframe obstacles as opportunities? How do we recognize when a stumbling block truly is a stairway?
In this new podcast, Rabbi Ingber sits down with thought leaders, changemakers, and spiritual seekers, for heart-centered conversations about the winding paths we take, and the insights gleaned along the way. These are conversations about resilience, transformation, the beauty and messiness of being human — a touchstone for listeners seeking wisdom in perilous times.
In this episode of Detours and Destinations, Rabbi David Ingber sits down with cookbook author, food writer, and culinary storyteller Adeena Sussman to explore a life shaped by food, migration, reinvention, and the search for belonging. Raised in a deeply communal Jewish home in Palo Alto and later immersed in New York’s food media world, Sussman spent decades helping chefs, celebrities, and publications translate flavor into narrative before ultimately finding her own voice through Israeli cooking and storytelling.
The conversation traces her journey from cookbook collaborations and food journalism to her life-changing move to Tel Aviv in 2015. Along the way, Sussman reflects on the Carmel Market as a creative and emotional home, on Israeli cuisine as a living mosaic shaped by migration and diaspora, and on the deeper meanings of hospitality, ritual, and nourishment.
Against the backdrop of October 7 and its aftermath, the episode explores how food becomes a language of resilience, consolation, and connection during moments of rupture and uncertainty. Through her bestselling books Sababa, Shabbat, and most recently ZARIZ, Sussman considers what it means to simplify, to feed others, and to create spaces of calm and joy in chaotic times.
Ultimately, this is a conversation about much more than cooking: it is about identity, home, memory, sensuality, Jewish life, and the emotional and spiritual power of gathering around a table.
Learn more about Adeena’s work https://www.adeenasussman.com/
Follow Adeena on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/adeenasussman/
Rabbi Ingber’s IG https://www.instagram.com/rabbiingber
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Producer: Efrat Bigger
Content Editor: Maya Gayer
Video Editor: Sean Kennedy
Music By: Shimon Smith
Special Thanks: Eden Sidney Foster and Naama Shefi.
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