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Episode 43: Black Mold
Episode 43
“ The rabbis would acknowledge that's not the reading that is closest probably to the original intent. It's nevertheless a justifiable reading becaus…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 42: But I Sat on His Grave!
Episode 42
“ The power of the methodology that is modeled over and over and over in the Talmud is that it makes very clear that we are not limited by the origin…
7 months ago
Episode 41: Goldilocks and the Wayward Son
Episode 41
“The whole myth of ‘God wrote this,’ which I don't believe the rabbis bought into, is necessary in order to make these rationales convincing. It isn'…
7 months, 1 week ago
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…
7 months, 2 weeks 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…
7 months, 3 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…
8 months 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…
8 months, 1 week 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…
8 months, 2 weeks 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…
8 months, 3 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…
9 months ago