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Episode 53: What's the Point?
Episode 53
“You’re really wasting your time, you’re doing the wrong thing if you think that your job is to receive the tradition, protect it, preserve it, and h…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 52: Raw Material
Episode 52
“ God only gave you raw materials. God always wanted you to mess with this. The story of the wise servant who turns the flour into bread, you could e…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 51: Reading Between the Lines
Episode 51
“One of the criteria for a good life is did you understand a thing from within a thing? One way we could translate that is, did you read between the …
5 months ago
Episode 50: Ultimate Questions
Episode 50
“You're not going to be judged on how much Torah you know. You're not going to be judged on other elements like how smart you were. You're going to b…
5 months, 1 week ago
Episode 49: Passover in the Talmud
Episode 49
“ People often take rites and rituals and they miss the point. It would be like if your doctor wrote you a prescription if you were sick, and then in…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 48: The Myth of Interpretation with Richard Primus
Episode 48
“ We have a Constitution that's almost impossible to amend but it must change to preserve the constant. And the mechanism for change is that we reint…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 47: The Maidservant’s Moral Power
Episode 47
“This story raises the questions of who's in our community, who can be in our community, and who’s svara should we be listening to? The answer is muc…
6 months ago
Episode 46: Sweet Little Lies
Episode 46
“ We're meant to be profoundly, deeply, intimately, radically empathic with one another. My understanding should be influenced by what I know is in …
6 months, 1 week ago
Episode 45: The Svara Torah
Episode 45
“ I think the value that's being privileged here is relieving suffering. It's not fiscal responsibility, it's not caution, it's not never making a mi…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 44: When Tradition Fights Back with Menachem Fisch
Episode 44
“ I now read the Talmudic literature as a paradigm of rationality, where you realize that to be rational you have to be self-critical. But you can't …
6 months, 3 weeks ago