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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…
11 months, 2 weeks 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 …
11 months, 3 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…
1 year ago
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…
1 year ago
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…
1 year ago
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…
1 year ago
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…
1 year ago
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 …
1 year, 1 month ago
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…
1 year, 1 month ago
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…
1 year, 1 month ago