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Episode 115: Parshat Pinchas: Mining and Undermining The Request for Inheritance
In this conversation with beloved Tanakh teacher Judy Klitsner, she uncovers the biblical roots of Zelophehad's daughters' request and highlights the…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 114 - Parshat Balak: Outside In
In this conversation with Rachel Sharansky Danziger, we explore the literary, theological, and spiritual import of the parsha's sudden shift to a non…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 113 - Parshat Chukat: The Changing of the Guard
In this candid conversation with Rabbanit Rachel Weber Leshaw, we speak about the parsha's central themes of death and loss refracted through the pas…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 112 - Parshat Korah: Conflict Resolution in the Wilderness
In this conversation with Professor Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin, we discuss the emotional and psychological foundations of the rebellions in Parshat Ko…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 111 - Parshat Shelah:On Lifequakes and the Spy Narrative
In this conversation with Rabbanit Mali Brofsky we discuss the sin of the spies and the various responses to it as a critical turning point in the na…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 110 - Parshat Bha'alotcha: A Crisis of Leadership
In this conversation with Dr. Yael Ziegler, we explore the catalysts for Moshe's leadership crisis and the role this episode plays in the nation's wi…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 109 - Parshat Naso: The (Potentially) Adulteress Woman and Communal Protocol
In this fascinating conversation with Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash we discuss several communal themes in the parsha, how the Sotah ritual can cata…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 108 : Parshat Bamidbar: The Individual and the Collective
In this conversation with Dr. Tanya White we touch upon some of Bamidbar's central themes while also discussing the significance of the census that o…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 107 - Parshat Behar-Behukotai: A Shmitta Beyond Prohibition
In this conversation with Tamar Weissman, a Torah personality and sustainable farmer living in Israel's Galilee region, we discuss how the positive c…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 106 : Parshat Emor - The Potential and Lived Experience of Shabbat and the Holidays
This almost poetic episode with Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz explores the spiritual and qualitative differences between Shabbat and the holidays in our relig…
2 years, 11 months ago