Podcast Episodes

What is the significance of Isaiah's prophetic career commencing with the death of King Uzziahu?

What does the prophet mean when he describes himself as an אִישׁ טְמֵא שְׂפָתַיִם?

1 year, 8 months ago

Parshas Yisro: Yisro brings Gershom, whom he has already "ruined," hence the tense relationship

Did Yisro return to Midian and resume his job as High Priest of Paganism (for parnassah, of course!)?

1 year, 8 months ago

Genazym is offerng a volume of the original printing of the famous עֵין יַעֲקֹב on the אַגָּדוֹת

The 1516 and 1522 editions complied and explained by the famous father and son team רַבִּי יַעֲקֹב בֶּן חָבִיב and רַבִּי לֵוִי בֶּן חָבִיב ))(מהרלב"…

1 year, 8 months ago

Genazym is auctioning a political-lobbying letter from R Chaim Brisker to his friend the בַּעַל "דּוֹרוֹת הָרִאשׁוֹנִים"re: the elections for Chief Rabbi of the Turkish Empire

R Chaim was opposing the election of "Conservative Rabbi" חַיִּים נָחוּם, fearing he would spread הַשְׂכָּלָה וְקַלּוּת בְּמִצְווֹת among the Sephard…

1 year, 8 months ago

וֶהֱוֵי מִתְאַבֵּק בַּעֲפַר רַגְלֵיהֶם, וֶהֱוֵי שׁוֹתֶה בַּצָּמָא אֶת דִּבְרֵיהֶם - A real ife Case in 19th century Kurdistan

The אֱמוּנָה פְּשׁוּטָה of some of the עֵדוֹת הַמִּזְרָח re: אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, even when they misinterpreted rabbinic dicta

1 year, 8 months ago

פָּרָשַׁת בְּשַׁלַּח תשפ"ה - Some Jews armed themselves to battle the Philistines when they left Egypt. Others were cowardly

Sponsored by Meshulem Epstein

" Whose grandmother came in the early  1900s from Ukraine. Her mother ran a dry goods and her father was the mashgiach…

1 year, 8 months ago

More correspndence between Ramchal and R Yeshaya Bassani: Whose soul did R Yeshaya possess?

Ramchal ascribes the most incredible and supernatural, indeed cosmic, significance to the Padua Eruv set up by R Yeshaya

1 year, 8 months ago

Haftarah BeShalach: Who exactly was Yael, Eshes Chever HaKeini? Which yeshiva did she learn in?

Targum Yonasan describes her as a talmid chacham

1 year, 8 months ago

Genazym is offering the famous math book: "סֵפֶר הַמִּסְפָּר" מֵאֵת רַבִּי אֵלִיָּהוּ מִזְרָחִי הַמְפֻרְסָם (בַּעַל הָרְאֵ"ם עַל פֵּרוּשׁ רָשִׁ"י עַל הַחֻמָּשׁ)

Published in the Turkish Empire in the 1500s by the famous Soncino Family, including a controversial colophon re: a fght between the Soncinos and the…

1 year, 8 months ago

Haftarah Bo: Egypt will be devastated by a Babylonian invasion

Israel will be mauled (but will recover), Egypt & Co. will be destroyed and will not recover

1 year, 8 months ago