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Parashat Terumah 5782: Stop the Clocks or Hang the Flags? How Moderns Create Jewish Space
Description: This podcast takes us on a roller-coaster of a trip from the tabernacle in the desert to 19th century ultra-orthodoxy in Hungary to 20th … Read the rest
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Parashat Toldot 5782 – But I Didn’t Do Anything Wrong
Description: The podcast examines the different strategies that rabbis and others have used to lessen the moral issues of Jacob tricking Esau to get the birthright and tricking his father … Read the rest
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Vayelech 5782/Shabbat Shuva – Who Would you Invite to Dinner?
This class imagines an imaginary dinner between R. Zera (4th century CE) and Moses. How are these two figures similar? How are they different? And what can their differences teach … Read the rest
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How does one rise to the occasion and do what needs to be done? How does one know when to lovingly detach from a situation because you have done what you can do? A Rashi that is deceptively unremarkable yields… Read the rest
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The obligation to destroy Amalek and their descendants, which is read of Zachor, is one of the most problematic commandments in the bible. See how medieval commentators explained it away and how modern commentators honed even this difficult mitzva for… Read the rest
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This Rosh Hashanah podcast is sponsored by Ricki and David Bernstein in memory of Ricki’s parents, Beatrice and Murray Kirschblat, each a sole survivor of large families which perished in the Shoah.
This podcast compares the popular song “Kol… Read the rest
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