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Episode 67 - Parshat Masei: Journeying with the Ba'al Shem Tov
In this moving conversation with Matan faculty member and returning podcast guest Rabbanit Yafit Clymer, we explore the contributions made by the Ba'…
3 years, 8 months ago
Episode 66 - Parshat Matot: When Student Becomes Teacher
In this conversation with Rabbanit Surale Rosen, we discuss the role of Elazar the priest in the war against Midian and in the critical eyes of Hazal…
3 years, 8 months ago
Episode 65 - Parshat Pinchas: Pinchas the Zealot- A Hassidic Perspective
In this wonderful conversation with Yossi Ben Harush, a charismatic educator and scholar of modern Hasidic writing, we speak about a modern Hasidic i…
3 years, 8 months ago
Episode 64 - Parshat Balak: Women, Peor and The Allure of the Outside
In this thought-provoking episode with Matan Graduate and faculty member Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash, we speak about midrashic perspectives on th…
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 63 - Parshat Chukat: Moshe's Leadership, Then and Now
In this moving conversation with Rachel Sharansky Danziger, we speak about the style, greatness, and limitations of Moshe's leadership and how they a…
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 62 - Parshat Korah: The Wilderness as Spiritual Landscape
In this conversation with the ever-moving Dr. Erica Brown, she discusses the significance of the land as the backdrop of Korah's rebellion and of the…
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 61 - Parshat Shlach: Moshe through the Eyes of Philo
In this eye-opening conversation with Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich, we survey the role of Moshe in the spy story through the eyes of Philo, a 1st century J…
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 60 - Parshat Beha'alotcha: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z"l on Humility
In this conversation with returning guest and Matan Faculty member Tanya White, we speak about Rabbi Sacks' perspective on the parsha and what it rea…
3 years, 10 months ago
Episode 59 - Parshat Naso: The Nazir Next Door
In this conversation with beloved teacher and author, Rabbi Alex Israel, we discuss what kind of person might become a Nazirite and what that can tea…
3 years, 10 months ago
Episode 58 - Parshat Bamidbar: Family Dynamics and the Desert Encampment
In this eye-opening conversation with Matan's Rosh Batei Midrash and Academic Director Dr. Yael Ziegler, we speak about the significance of the encam…
3 years, 10 months ago