Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchR. Avi Strausberg: The Promise and Impossibility of Unity
What does it mean to strive toward unity and togetherness in a moment in which we are so divided? What is gained—and what is lost—by holding fast to …
5 months ago
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Shemot: The Choice of Knowledge
The deterioration of relations between Egypt and the Children of Israel proceeds rapidly. What values, emotions, and perspectives make such a breakd…
5 months, 1 week ago
R. Avi Killip: And God Waited
For generations our relationship with God has been mediated through texts written almost entirely by men. In these sessions, Rabbi Avi Killip explore…
5 months, 1 week ago
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Vayehi: Truth and Peace
We find ourselves at the closing moments of the Book of Genesis—moments of transition as a family becomes a nation. We stand on the threshold between…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
R. Elazar Symon on the 10th of Tevet: “A Day of Hearing”: The Other Tevet Fast
We know about the fasts that mark the destruction of the Temple from a prophecy of Zekhariah. While the Jewish exiles were in Babylon, the prophet w…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Vayigash: Three Paths to Closeness
The word “vayigash” (“he approached”) opens one of the most dramatic scenes in the Torah: a climactic moment in the tense encounter between Yehudah, …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
R. Avi Killip: Birthing Worlds
For generations our relationship with God has been mediated through texts written almost entirely by men. In these sessions, Rabbi Avi Killip explore…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Mikeitz: How Do You Climb Out of a Pit?
Parashat Mikeitz teaches that dreams hold immense power: the power to bring downfall or renewal, life or death, destruction or creation, war or peace…
6 months ago
R. Elazar Symon on Hanukkah: The Miracle of Home Carried into the Street
One of the differences between the Hanukkah candles and the other significant candles in our religious practice, the Shabbat candles, is their locati…
6 months ago
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat VaYeishev: Yosef's Father, a Symbol of the Future
One of the most dramatic turning points in Yosef’s life is his fall from a respected and powerful position in Potiphar’s house in Egypt to the status…
6 months, 1 week ago