Podcast Episodes

Joyous With Your Lot (6.6.27)

Season 1

There is an unequal distribution of talents, gifts, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. Everyone is different. Everyone is their own world. This ap…

2 years, 6 months ago

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Know Your Place (6.6.26)

Season 1

The greatest pedagogues of history – the Sages of the Mishnah – codified “knowing your place” as a means to acquire Torah, to acquire wisdom. What ex…

2 years, 6 months ago

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Accepting Affliction (6.6.25)

Season 1

Life is full of nuisances. For many – maybe all – life inevitably contains some pain, suffering, and affliction. How we approach these situations is …

2 years, 8 months ago

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Trust Sages (6.6.24)

Season 1

Our primary responsibility as humans and as Jews is to develop and deepen our faith in the Creator. Can we have faith in man? Can we have faith in a …

2 years, 9 months ago

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Good Heart (6.6.23)

Season 1

Although the study of Torah is ostensibly a cognitive pursuit, there are many qualities that are not cognitive nature that facilitate and enable the …

2 years, 9 months ago

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Anger Suppression (6.6.22)

Season 1

Anger is part of the human experience. When things agitate us, we get frustrated and have a tendency to lash out, to berate, to say things that we ma…

2 years, 9 months ago

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Levity (6.6.21)

Season 1

Life is serious. Pursuit of wisdom is the pursuit of truth. Pursuit of wisdom is the pursuit of understanding the Divine (to the best of our abilitie…

2 years, 10 months ago

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Conversation (6:6:20)

Season 1

We are speaking beings. In fact, the central differentiation between humanity and animals is the capacity of verbal communication. The judgment that …

2 years, 10 months ago

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Sleep (6.6.19)

Season 1

We all need to sleep. All humans, irrespective of their intelligence, their physical prowess, their wealth, must lay down in a comatose state for sev…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Pleasure (6.6.18)

Season 1

Pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain are hardwired impulses . We all want to feel good and to avoid feeling bad. Perhaps surprisingly, the Torah…

2 years, 11 months ago

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