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Episode 210- Parshat Vayikra: The Debate Over Korbanot, Then and Now
Our Vayikra series will be focusing on Mitzvah observance, but we wanted to make sure to include at least one broader conversation about sacrifices a…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 209 - Parshat Pekudei: Mishkan Shiloh, Then and Now
In this episode, which closes our episodes on national formation, beloved tour guide Shulie Mishkin walks us through the biblical reality and signifi…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 208 - Parshat Vayakel: The Wonders of Human Creation
This week's conversation with R. David Fohrman, beloved Tanakh teacher and principal educator at Aleph Beta, was a joy. We begin by thinking about t…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 207 - Parshat Ki Tisa: The Inevitability of Sin and the Gift of Forgiveness
For this week’s episode, we had the unique opportunity to sit down with Professor Leon Kass, Dean of Faculty at Shalem College and the author of Shem…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 206: Parshat Tetzaveh - Clothing as a First Principle
In this illuminating conversation with Rabbanit Shayna Goldberg, we begin by discussing the centrality of priestly clothing in this week's parsha and…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 205 - Parshat Truma: Joint National Projects and the Rationality of Tzimtzum
In this whimsical chevrutah with Dr. Sam Lebens, we discuss the centrality of the Mishkan as a societal building project and why there really is no o…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 204 - Parshat Mishpatim: Halakhic Applications, Then and Now
In this fascinating conversation with Professor Chaim Saiman, we explore foundational understandings of how the rabbinic system of law developed and …
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 203: Parshat Yitro - Honoring One's Parents in Theory and Practice
In this candid conversation with Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash, we explore the halakhic obligations and limits of the commandment to honor one's pa…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 202: Parshat Beshalach - A Mute God and Mud on Our Shoes
In this episode with R. Joe Wolfson, we explore the nation's experience crossing the Red Sea through a series of midrashic readings that provide grea…
1 year, 3 months ago
Special Live Event In honor of reaching 200 episodes
In honor of reaching 200 episodes, we held a special live event at Meshek 48 in Rosh Tzurim on motzei shabbat, Parshat Shemot. Our conversation focus…
1 year, 4 months ago