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Episode 20: Transforming Story into Law with Jane Kanarek

Episode 20

“I want activist reads to also be responsible reads, which is why I’m so committed to people being anchored and being able to actually read these cla…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

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Episode 19: The Elu v’Elu Episode

Episode 19

“Opinions that are contradictory to one another, the opposite of one another are both the words of God.” - Dan Libenson

Welcome to The Oral Talmud, ou…

7 months ago

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Episode 18: What Tisha b’Av Can Learn From Yom Kippur

Episode 18

“We have to imagine that everything that we love today, or don't love, might end up in the Tisha b’Av of the future.” - Dan Libenson

Welcome to The Or…

7 months, 1 week ago

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Episode 17: The Iranian Talmud with Shai Secunda

Episode 17

“I love the world of the Talmud. I love the fact that they need to justify, they wanna justify, they wanna talk and talk and talk; the way that peopl…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 16: The Greatest Voices Are Anonymous with Daniel Boyarin

Episode 16

“I find it deeply moving and worthy of homilies that arguably the most influential voices in the history of Jewish thinking are anonymous.” - Daniel …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

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Episode 15: Svara’ing Your Svara

Episode 15

“It's only when you know why, and the essence behind the whys, that you are able to create. You're able to then be free of the momentary form of a pr…

8 months ago

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Episode 14: Reading the Angel of Death with Ruth Calderon

Episode 14

“Even if the good book was not written by God, the Talmudic page is often a good place to encounter the Divine.” - Ruth Calderon

Welcome to The Oral T…

8 months, 1 week ago

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Episode 13: Using Tradition to Overturn Tradition

Episode 13

“You don't have to stand outside of the tradition to fix it. If you realize where the tradition is wrong, that doesn't put you outside of it. That pu…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 12: The Ideal Person

Episode 12

“And in Jewish law, if you get 23 Jews to agree on something? You know something is wrong!” - Benay Lappe

Welcome to The Oral Talmud, our weekly deep …

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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Episode 11: The Broken Social Contract

Episode 11

Welcome to The Oral Talmud, our weekly deep dive chevruta study partnership, discovering how voices of the Talmud from 1500 years ago can help us ret…

9 months ago

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