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Episode 40: Consciousness of Guilt
Episode 40
“That’s one of the reasons there's a crash because it's dealing with a new reality where everybody has the potential to know everything. And so there…
2 months, 1 week ago
Episode 39: A Glutton for Punishment
Episode 39
“ The big idea of what we're doing is to say, well, if we can see what the rabbis were doing to the Torah, then we can potentially do that to the rab…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 38: Bad Seeds in the Capitol
Episode 38
“ Learning Talmud specifically was a spiritual practice designed to shape us into the kinds of morally sophisticated thinkers that can create a certa…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 37: Wayward Sons of a Certain Age
Episode 37
“The Talmud is giving you a toolbox of methodologies and mechanisms to use to write repugnant understandings of God’s will out of existence.” - Benay…
3 months ago
Episode 36: A One-Way Ratchet
Episode 36
“What you can't do is try to ratchet it backwards to the original law from the Torah. No, it does not have a special status because it was in the Tor…
3 months, 1 week ago
Episode 35: Repairing the World Means Admitting It’s Broken
Episode 35
“That is a point at which they're gonna say this is such a broken world that we can't let this stand. We're gonna have to repair the whole world to p…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 34: Our Way or the Highway
Episode 34
“What's really important is not just that they're doing it, but they're showing you that they're overturning Torah with what their own svara tells t…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 33: It’s Svara All the Way Down
Episode 33
“It's always been that if we get to a point where svara tells us that this text is wrong, svara trumps the text.” - Dan Libenson
Welcome to The Oral T…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 32: Our Hands are Not Tied
Episode 32
“ What this text is trying to say, as is the entire Talmud, is ‘my hands are tied’ is not how we do Jewish. It's never been how we do Jewish, ever si…
4 months ago
Episode 31: A Talmudic Stitch Sampler
Episode 31
“The big error is to imagine that a general principle of interpretation applies only to the case in which we learned it.” - Dan Libenson
Welcome to Th…
4 months, 1 week ago