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Episode 10: The Obligation to Protest
Episode 10
“You’ve got to decide with whom and where your voice is going to be heeded. Where are you going to have the power to effect change? That’s your olam.…
9 months, 1 week ago
Episode 9: Turning Around
Episode 9
“That was the rabbinic genius, to say that that which is wholly new also is given from God at Mount Sinai. That’s a genius sleight of hand that allow…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 8: Dreams and Discovery
Episode 8
“I don’t have to win; I don’t have to get the person to capitulate to me. I don’t have to hear the person’s apology – as long as I’ve gotten the worl…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 7: No More Gatekeeping
Episode 7
“There are barriers being put up that say ‘You’re not a good Jew if you don’t do it our way’ – but as soon as those barriers come down, there’s actua…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 6: Narrating the Law with Barry Wimpfheimer
Episode 6
“In my book, I refer to ‘The Talmud's Golden Old Age.’ I was a little reluctant to use this terminology, because who knows if it's the golden old age…
10 months ago
Episode 5: Excommunicating Dissent
Episode 5
“Is it inevitable and necessary to get the Rabbi Eliezers out of the room? Or is part of the story saying, ‘You actually need to keep him in the room…
10 months, 1 week ago
Episode 4: Retelling the History with David Kraemer
Episode 4
“What the sages had was imagination and boldness.They were deeply rooted in the inherited tradition, and, rather than that rooting holding them back,…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 3: Misquoting God
Episode 3
The rabbis must have been leaving us a message. It says, "Please do to us what we did to God and whoever put the Torah together. We played fast and l…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 2: Voiding the Torah
Episode 2
“Maybe the reason they were undoing the original covenant was to give themselves a little breathing room, saying, ‘God actually gave us permission to…
11 months ago
Episode 1: Rebooting Judaism
Episode 1
“If you pay attention to the folks for whom the system isn’t working, you’ll know how the system will eventually not work for everybody.” - Benay Lap…
11 months ago