Podcast Episodes

Rabbi Michoel Forshlager of Baltimore: His recent yahrtzeit and some thoughts on this remarkable gadol

Whole busloads come to Baltimore every week to pray at the kever of a person who, a short time ago, was unknown...

11 months ago

הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת חַיֵּי שָׂרָה תשפ"ו Adonijah vs. Shlomo: the Background

Was it just a case of political intrigue? Or did people sincerely distrust Nathan re: the David Bathsheba story?

11 months ago

Parshas Chayei Sarah: Why does Avrohom adjure Eliezer not to take a wife from the Bnos Knaani for Yitzchok?

Abraham's visit to his relatives in אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם

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11 months ago

The Current Christian Dispute Between Philosemites and Antisemites

It all goes back to 1657 and that strange episode of English Christian would-be missionaries who sent money to Jerusalem to save the starving Jews th…

11 months ago

Haftarah VaYera: Elisha and the Shunamis

Elisha does not blame the death of the child on the woman's sins. "The Buck stops here!"

11 months, 1 week ago

Psalm 83 and the current coinciding of שִׂנְאַת יִשְׂרָאֵל on the part of the Antisemitic Christian influencers and their counterparts in the בני ישמעאל world

כִּי הִנֵּה אוֹיְבֶיךָ יֶהֱמָיוּן וּמְשַׂנְאֶיךָ נָשְׂאוּ רֹאשׁ:
ד עַל עַמְּךָ יַעֲרִימוּ סוֹד וְיִתְיָעֲצוּ עַל צְפוּנֶיךָ:
ה אָמְרוּ לְכוּ וְנַכְחִיד…

11 months, 1 week ago

פָּרָשַׁת וְיֵרָא תשפ"ו - The Rashbam's unique take on Abraham's encounter with the Three Angels

According to Rashbam, there is no תִּקּוּן סוֹפְרִים in this parsha!

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11 months, 1 week ago

Part 2: The Other "Hellenistic Judaism" - not the Chanukah villains

The fight over the language of קְרִיאַת הַתּוֹרָה בְּבֵית הַכְּנֶסֶת

11 months, 1 week ago

The Current Wave of Antisemitism in Italy - My reaction to a podcast

Are we seeing a long-internalized resentment by Italian Catholics to the liberalized theology towards the Jews adopted by The Church in 1965?

11 months, 1 week ago

Part 1: The Other "Hellenistic Judaism" - not the Chanukah villains

The other Hellenistic Judaism, not identical with Talmudic Judaism (but not un-frum) but more widespread, once upon a time .

Part 1 of a 2 part series…

11 months, 1 week ago