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Episode 216 - Parshat Behar-Bechukotai: Broadening the Halakhic Lens
This week's episode with Rabbanit Surale Rosen closes our series on the lived experience of Torah observance.The conversation begins with an idea rooted in our parsha regarding an ethic that may have…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Seven Biblical Readings for a Post October 7th World (Ep 4): The Elongated Journey
In this moving conversation, we explore the book of Numbers through the lens of a short journey to a promised land that suddenly went awry, in search of emotional guidance in the face of a war that h…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 215 - Parshat Emor: Contemporary Challenges of Prohibited Priestly Marriages
In this fascinating and sensitive conversation with Rabbanit Dr. Jennie Rosenfeld, we discuss her involvement in the world of Halakhic writing and guidance as well as the modern challenges that arise…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Seven Biblical Readings for a Post October 7th World (Ep3): A Deafening Silence with Yael Leibowitz
In this difficult but important conversation, we explore biblical texts that illustrate how violence against women correlates with a morally decaying society. This episode directly responds to the w…
Published on 4 months ago
Episode 214 - Parshat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: Jewish Sexual Values and Ethics in this Modern Moment
This episode brings together the Matan Podcast with the hosts of Intimate Judaism, R. Scott Kahn and Talli Rosenbaum, to discuss the tensions between Jewish sexual ethics and modern sexual trends. Wh…
Published on 4 months ago
Episode 214 - Parshat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: Jewish Sexual Values and Ethics in this Modern Moment
This episode brings together the Matan Podcast with the hosts of Intimate Judaism, R. Scott Kahn and Talli Rosenbaum, to discuss the tensions between Jewish sexual ethics and modern sexual trends. Wh…
Published on 4 months ago
Seven Biblical Readings for a Post October 7th World (Episode 2): Journeying Through Grief with Dr. Tanya White
This week Dr. Tanya White shares a novel reading of Terah's journey to Canaan through the lens of grief and how Abraham manages to pick up where his father left off. Dr. Tanya White is a senior lect…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Episode 213 - Parshat Tazria-Metzora: Concentric Circles: Layers that Define, Separate, and Unite
In this fascinating conversation with R. Alex Israel, we explore several perspectives on Tzaraat impurity and what this means for us today. We conclude with a study of the parsha's haftara reading a…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Seven Biblical Readings for a Post Oct. 7th World (Ep. 1): Noah,Jonah and the Search for Resilience
This is a special podcast miniseries produced by Matan and hosted by Dr. Yosefa Fogel Wruble. The series will comprise seven episodes to be aired during the seven weeks of the Omer counting between t…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 212 - Parshat Shmini: Kashrut, From Source to Practice
In this fascinating conversation with Rabbanit Dena (Freundlich) Rock, we use the repeated verse, "Do not cook a kid in a mother's milk" to explore the relationship between Halakhic development and i…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago