Podcast Episodes

Tehillim. Psalm 102 - Bird on a Roof

This Mizmor starts with a desperate call for help.

What is the problem? What's wrong?

Soon we can deduce that the poet is in exile, and yearns for th…

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Tehillim. Psalm 101 - Integrity, or Dishonest Government?

What happens when we cannot trust the integrity of public officials?

In this chapter David expresses his desire to be surrounded by and to implement …

1 year, 11 months ago

Tehillim. Psalm 100 - Gratitude and Happiness

Does Judaism have a mitzva to be happy?

Is there a relationship between gratitude and happiness?

1 year, 11 months ago

Tehillim. Psalm 99 - Holy! Holy! Holy!

Mizmor 99 gives us a window into the paradoxical and dialectical encounter with the Divine Presence.

Music. Naor Carmi - Longing

1 year, 11 months ago

Tehillim. Psalm 98 - The Music of Redemption

The nations all burst into song when they appreciate God's salvation of the Jewish People

1 year, 11 months ago

Tehillim. Psalm 97 - Joy and Trembling

God is coming to establish justice, order and decency in the world.

God's arrival i surrounded by clear delight along with melting and quaking mounta…

1 year, 11 months ago

Tehillim. Psalm 96 - The Pattern of 95-100

Today we identify a deliberate structure of Psalms 95-100 which form them into a self-contained unit.

1 year, 11 months ago

Tehillim. Psalm 95 - Kabbalat Shabbat

This chapter is familiar to most of us as the opening of Kabbalat Shabbat. But there is a strange shift from the first segment to the second. Why doe…

1 year, 11 months ago

Tehillim. Psalm 94 - Justice, Not Vengeance!

How does faith respond to suffering? - In a variety of ways.

This Mizmor gives us several vantage points on the experience of suffering - protest, re…

1 year, 11 months ago

Tehillim. Psalm 93 - Chaos and Order

God's Majesty! Crashing waves! We will read this Psalm as depicting a narrative of chaos and rupture in the face of an ordered and harmonious world.

1 year, 11 months ago