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Episode 63: Calculating Damages
Episode 63
“ When people say, ‘What makes something Jewish?’ A lot of times you're looking for some substantive answer to that, emphasizing the value of tikkun …
2 months, 1 week ago
Episode 62: The Rabbis and Gender with Gwynn Kessler
Episode 62
“[The Rabbis] show us, and texts from antiquity across the board show us, that any silly political insistence that there are only two sexes and ther…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 61: Thinking Like a Jewish Lawyer
Episode 61
“ Even if you accept that we are nothing compared to Moses, nevertheless, we're sitting on the shoulders of Moses and everyone who sat on his should…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 60: The Bottom of the Toolbox
Episode 60
“ I'm really starting to land somewhere for me with this text. I think this is an instruction manual for how to apply that very radical and broad dir…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 59: Is Dignity Greater than Torah?
Episode 59
“It is preferable to break, violate a prohibition in the Torah, anything the Torah says don't do, you can actually go ahead and do it if by not doing…
3 months ago
Episode 58: Living After the End of the World
Episode 58
“That's what Rabbi Yitzchak is saying, once the temple is destroyed, we are all in a state of unhealthy living, and our desires can only be satisfied…
3 months, 1 week ago
Episode 57: The Lovesick Man
Episode 57
“ The issue here isn't sex. The issue here is objectification. So that can take place in a sexual context, but it can also take place in other contex…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 56: Children of Prophets
Episode 56
“ There's no question in my mind that retelling, reshaping the contours of the Jewish story is what you do. That's the most Jewish thing of all Jewis…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 55: The Wisdom of Crowds
Episode 55
“The rabbis ultimately see us being the Rabbi Akiva character, that everyone is an innovator, an upgrader, a potentially radical rewriter. That's the…
4 months ago
Episode 54: Who Owns Torah?
Episode 54
“ People who learn the tradition own that tradition and therefore can do with it what an owner can do with what an owner owns. If you own your house,…
4 months, 1 week ago