Psychologist Lisa Miller

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Hidden Brain · Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 1 · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

As the holidays approached, one morning in our community meeting, a gentleman raised his hand.

He was someone who was known as very explosive as he struggled with bipolar.

He'd become very angry, maybe toss a chair, yell and march out.

So it was he, of all people, who raised his hand in a full community meeting, 30 people in a circle under the flickering lights.

He raised his hand and said, what will we be doing for Yom Kippur?

And the unit chief, a very nice man, sort of looked at his foot and said, I'm sorry, we don't have anything.

The rabbis will be going home to their own families.

What?

Nothing for Yom Kippur?

And he became more and more upset, explosive, tossed the chair and walked out of the room.

Well, I'm not a rabbi, but I did have at that time about two and a half decades of experience with Yom Kippur services.

So I approached the unit chief who gave me permission and said, sure, if you want to come in on Yom Kippur, that's your decision.

I found in a box in my apartment a beautiful weathered prayer book that had been my grandmother's.

That day when I arrived to the unit, the patients were all dressed beautifully.

No hospital gowns or gurneys.

Our so-called sanctuary was the back room, the kitchen, with its linoleum table and its fluorescent lights, but it felt sanctified.

And there we were.

There were four Jewish patients, and by their side each had an aide who very graciously joined in our ceremony.

As we started to move through the prayers, it was the gentleman who had been so explosive and so-called chaotic who was holding the cadence of our prayers, who was davening, as we say in Judaism, moving and swaying with his body and with the lyrical music of his voice, holding our collective prayer.

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