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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…
1 year, 1 month ago
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 …
1 year, 2 months ago
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…
1 year, 2 months ago
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.…
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 3 months 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…
1 year, 3 months 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…
1 year, 3 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…
1 year, 3 months 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,…
1 year, 3 months ago