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Episode 249 - Parshat Vayechi: Last Legacies and Final Vendettas
In this conversation with R. Zvi Grumet, we study the final requests of Yaakov in this week's parsha and those of King David in the Haftorah. David, seeking to ensure the security of Shlomo's monarch…
Published on 10 hours ago
Episode 248 - Parshat Vayigash: Grafting the Spirit of Israel (Yechezkel 37)
In this moving conversation with Rabbanit Shani Taragin, we study this week's Haftorah from Yechezkel 37 which describes the grafting of two branches representing the Northern (Yosef) and Southern (J…
Published on 1 week ago
Episode 247 - Parshat Miketz: Rebuilding with Spirit and Might
This conversation with R. Alex Israel studies the optimistic visions of Second Temple restoration in the book of Zecharia, read as a special Channukah Haftorah. Does redemption come through physical …
Published on 2 weeks ago
Episode 246 - Parshat Vayeshev: Societal Ills Through Amos' Eyes
In this conversation with R. Joe Wolfson, we explore Amos' rebuke of the opulent and socially corrupt N. Kingdom of Israel from this week's Haftorah. A.Y. Heschel, political theorist Michael Walzer…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Episode 245- Parshat Vayishlach: Esav as Edom and the Space Between
This week's haftorah reading is the one-chapter book of Ovadia- a short prophecy of doom predicting the downfall of Esav's descendants at the end of the First Temple period. In this probing conversat…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Episode 244 - Parshat Vayetzei: When God is Like a Lion and a Lover
The parsha's Haftorah is taken from the book of Hoshea, a fourteen-chapter work that opens the collection of 'Trei Asar.' Jewish philosophy professor Sam Lebens walks us through significant theologic…
Published on 1 month ago
Episode 243- Parshat Toldot: Divine Love and Hate
This conversation with Rabbanit Dr. Adina Sternberg explores the Haftorah from the book of Malachi, a short prophetic work from the early Second Temple period. The returnees have become jaded with a…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 242 - Parshat Chayei Sara: Between King David's Life and Legacy
In this rich conversation with Torah scholar and Tanakh author Dr. Nechama Price, we explore the complex closing of David's life in this week's haftorah. How is his end both similar and different fr…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 241 - Parshat Vayera: Expanding our Vessels
In this beautiful conversation with Matan faculty member Rachel Sharansky Danziger, we discuss Elisha's encounter with two women in the Haftorah taken from II Melachim 4. We discuss the subtle theolo…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Episode 240 - Parshat Lech Lecha: The Seed of Avraham (Yeshayahu 40-41)
This week's Haftorah returns to the beginning section of the second half of Yeshayahu with beloved Tanakh teacher and pedagogue R. Menachem Leibtag. Why do we find ourselves in Yeshayahu again and w…
Published on 2 months ago