{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjewish-meditation-for-everyone.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fa-case-of-mistaken-identity-WCFby5yv","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"A Case of Mistaken Identity","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/9aafe50b-c5f0-40ef-aa8a-426cd694ed79/3e19c37a-7774-4b06-9aab-e798e5c57a0e/rebranded-podcast.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/a540b593-d16f-49be-8f5b-20976cccfdae\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"A Case of Mistaken Identity\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"This episode of our podcast features a teaching and meditation by Rabbi Sam Feinsmith of the IJS Core Faculty. It's the last in a series of four meditations on the theme of \"From Constriction to Expanse,\" a series intended to help us prepare inwardly for Passover. Rabbi Feinsmith reminds us that we are usually suffering from a case of mistaken identity. We erroneously understand our constructed self-identity, generated by our ego, as our true self. But the ingrained narrowness of our ego, which seeks to protect, cherish, and justify itself, inflicts suffering on ourselves and the world -- just like Pharaoh in the Exodus narrative.  Whereas our deepest, truest self emerges from that which is timeless, ever-present, and infinitely spacious. On Pesach, we move from the constriction of the false self, and move towards the expansive freedom of our essential, true self -- which emerges, and is never separate from, Timeless Presence."}