voice-finder, rabbi, mentor | find your voice, find your way Minna believes that singing both demands and teaches an integration of body, mind, and spirit.
Minna Bromberg is a fat activist, singer, songwriter, rabbi, and voice teacher who lives in Jerusalem with her husband, Rabbi Alan Abrams, and their two children. She teaches voice to rabbis, rabbinical students, and lay people who use their voices in leading prayer as well as all sorts of folks who appreciate her empowering yet soulful approach. Minna is the founder of Fat Torah. She was ordained
19/05/2026
“The bottom line is that I can’t control...what happens to my own body or to the bodies of my children or the millions of other precious humans who live here in harm’s way. But I can be clear about my own intention toward my body.”
More in this week’s newsletter.
28/04/2026
What does body liberation have to do with Israel and Palestine? It’s a big question. This week’s newsletter (link in bio) shares a tiny part of the inspiration behind my own emerging answers.
19/04/2026
People always think Fat Torah is about body image…which it is kind of, sometimes. But also… (more in this week’s newsletter).
10/04/2026
A conversation in our bomb shelter last week prompted me to finally put together this playlist of all the songs quoted or referenced in _Every Body Beloved_. Check out today’s newsletter (link in bio) to listen on Spotify, YouTube, or Apple Music. Enjoy!
So good to get a chance to visit our local lupines with my sweetie before I fly to the States tonight. Not included in this post: their light sweet captivating aroma.
…more in this week’s newsletter “Same body, different world”
Vulnerable post about Israel, Palestine, almond trees and love. More in this week’s newsletter.
A vulnerable piece in this week’s newsletter, on early bloomers (like this almond tree), late bloomers (like me), and coming out as a lover of this land. You can find the rest of it in the usual place, but here’s a taste:
I want to be with this land as I have learned to be with my own body, and as I aspire to be with my loved ones:
🌞Giving up on messianic dreams that if only we can get ourselves to follow this one perfect yet punishing plan, everything will be better all at once.
🌞Seeking healing by starting exactly where we are.
🌞Forgoing objectification and returning again and again to living from the inside out.
🌞Not pretending that loving is easy or that everything is perfect.
🌞Acknowledging and taking responsibility for all those parts that have been neglected, abused, erased, or rejected.
🌞Listening devoutly for the many silenced voices within.
🌞Never giving up on the healing power of simply, bravely being with the body, with the land as it is.
To be with this land when it bleeds. To be with this land when it blossoms. To be with this land and its peoples, as we, God willing, somehow, begin to heal and to rebuild.
My whole heart is exhaling with my country, with my people, over the return of our last hostage, as his family finally welcomes him home for a proper burial.
Meanwhile the rest of me shudders at the scenes of heartbreak and bravery and ever-widening chasms between visions of what is right and wrong in America.
Yet, somehow, through this quivering mess that I have been all week, my breath still flows, and my voice still readies itself for Shabbat Shira.
The Sabbath of Song, which begins with this evening’s sunset, celebrates not only song in general but the “Song of the Sea,” that particular ancient song that we sang as we walked that narrow passageway with a wall of water on one side and a wall of water on the other on our way to wandering the desert as a free people…
…read the rest in this week’s newsletter.
I had such a moving conversation with Avrum Rosenzweig on his podcast.
And when I say “moving” I mean…I cried…more than once.
Here’s a clip where I talk about what the pursuit of weight loss can take away from us.
You can find the whole conversation on YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Enjoy! And let me know what you think.