Rabbinic Bibliomancy with dr. rafa kern

dr. rafa kern joins the pod to offer his critique of Martin Buber's skills as a playwright, but more importantly to share poignant insights on making meaning of text study and of the multiple elements that make up the phenomenon of chevruta learning. We do bibliomancy in this ep - spontaneously opening up a rabbinic text and seeing what meaning we can make of it! Primary source: Mishnah Shevuot 4:6, 4:3:Other sources mentioned:Martin Buber's play Elijah, staged at Yale University in 2011The ritual of the "decapitated calf / Egla Arufa," Deuteronomy 21:1-9To donate to the Yesod Fund, a mutual aid fund coordinated by Shir Tikvah Synagogue in Minneapolis: https://www.yesodfund.org/

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