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Episode 252 - Parshat Bo: Egypt's Downfall, Yirmiyahu Style
In this conversation with Professor Tova Ganzel, we discuss the differences between Yechezkel and Yirmiyahu's prophetic styles and how it can be obse…
4 months, 1 week ago
Episode 251 - Parshat Va'era: The Humbling of Egypt Through the Eyes of Yechezkel
In this conversation with Dr. Yael Ziegler, we discuss the possible goals of prophecies directed at other nations, a common genre utilized by most of…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 250 - Parshat Shemot: Enslavement Through Yeshayahu's Lens
In this conversation with Adina Blaustein, who has a forthcoming book on the weekly Haftorah, she walks us through how the Haftorah intertext highlig…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
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, …
5 months 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…
5 months, 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 Channuka…
5 months, 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.…
5 months, 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 …
6 months 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…
6 months, 1 week 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 Temp…
6 months, 2 weeks ago