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Episode 30: Magician School
Episode 30
“Talmud is showing people how you do the sleight of hand. It's like magician school! And this is the manual! A magician never reveals his tricks! But…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 29: The Heart Knows The Bitterness of its Soul
Episode 29
“As almost always, there's a wink in this text. And the question is: has that wink been successful? Or have we lost track of the wink and opened ours…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 28: The Tile Contour Gauge Theory of Tradition
Episode 28
“In these moments of new foundings, I wonder the extent to which you have to make some kind of a plausible argument that your changes are actually an…
5 months ago
Episode 27: Who’s To Say Your Blood is Redder?
Episode 27
“What's inherent in racism is the idea that you are judging groups of people in terms of value one against another. And I think that's precisely what…
5 months, 1 week ago
Episode 26: Why We Show Our Work
Episode 26
“And since they've shown us their work, we're able to say, ‘I'm not following the substantive rule in this case! I'm following the process rule – whi…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 25: Nitza’s Attic
Episode 25
“When the Rabbis start saying: Well, when does this line in the Torah apply? And when doesn't apply? – You forget that their first radical move was t…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 24: Sacred Disobedience
Episode 24
“Jewish law works like any legal system that survives for a long period of time – and it does so by the same mechanisms. And those mechanisms are the…
6 months ago
Episode 23: Life Comes First
Episode 23
“How do you take what you have and analogize, and tie some new radical thing that you don't have but you want to insert into the tradition? This enti…
6 months, 1 week ago
Episode 22 - Hillel & Shammai: Beyond Elu v’Elu
Episode 22
“Ultimately the only way that you actually take these lessons into your soul is through trying to implement it in your actual life. And often that's …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 21: Dissecting Daf Yomi with Ilana Kurshan
Episode 21
“Part of what I love about Talmud is that even if you're just listening, there's so many gaps, so many rough edges, so many places that don't quite f…
6 months, 3 weeks ago