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Episode 50: Ultimate Questions
Episode 50
“You're not going to be judged on how much Torah you know. You're not going to be judged on other elements like how smart you were. You're going to b…
7 hours ago
Episode 49: Passover in the Talmud
Episode 49
“ People often take rites and rituals and they miss the point. It would be like if your doctor wrote you a prescription if you were sick, and then in…
1 week ago
Episode 48: The Myth of Interpretation with Richard Primus
Episode 48
“ We have a Constitution that's almost impossible to amend but it must change to preserve the constant. And the mechanism for change is that we reint…
2 weeks ago
Episode 47: The Maidservant’s Moral Power
Episode 47
“This story raises the questions of who's in our community, who can be in our community, and who’s svara should we be listening to? The answer is muc…
3 weeks ago
Episode 46: Sweet Little Lies
Episode 46
“ We're meant to be profoundly, deeply, intimately, radically empathic with one another. My understanding should be influenced by what I know is in …
4 weeks ago
Episode 45: The Svara Torah
Episode 45
“ I think the value that's being privileged here is relieving suffering. It's not fiscal responsibility, it's not caution, it's not never making a mi…
1 month ago
Episode 44: When Tradition Fights Back with Menachem Fisch
Episode 44
“ I now read the Talmudic literature as a paradigm of rationality, where you realize that to be rational you have to be self-critical. But you can't …
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 43: Black Mold
Episode 43
“ The rabbis would acknowledge that's not the reading that is closest probably to the original intent. It's nevertheless a justifiable reading becaus…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 42: But I Sat on His Grave!
Episode 42
“ The power of the methodology that is modeled over and over and over in the Talmud is that it makes very clear that we are not limited by the origin…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Episode 41: Goldilocks and the Wayward Son
Episode 41
“The whole myth of ‘God wrote this,’ which I don't believe the rabbis bought into, is necessary in order to make these rationales convincing. It isn'…
2 months ago