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The Jewish Art of Resolving Contradictions / Parshat Naso
Don't Forget the Poor on Shavuot! / Parshat Shavuot
Firstborn All Over Again / Parshat Bamidbar
The Curse of Exile: ‘If’ or ‘When’? / Parshat Behar-Behukotai
Shabbat and Holidays: Two Timelines / Parshat Emor
The Difference Between Justice and Holiness / Parshat Aharei Mot-Kedoshim
Sickness in the Torah: Two Models / Parshat Tazria-Metzorah
The Kli Yakar’s Psychology of Wealth and Poverty / Parashat Vayikra
The End of Exodus / Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei
Taking Responsibility in Public Office / Parashat Ki Tisa
Wisdom of the Heart / Parashat Tetzeveh
A Crimson Thread / Parashat Terumah
Lost on Mount Sinai / Parshat Mishpatim
Lost on Mount Sinai / Parshat Mishpatim
Midrashic Origin Stories / Parshat Yitro
Pharaoh Never Died - Parshat Beshalah
Hard-Heartedness - Parshat Bo
Leadership: Character or Destiny? - Parshat Shemot
Two Messiahs, Three Opinions - Parshat Vayehi
Joseph Builds the Administrative State - Parshat Vayigash
The Trappings of Power - Parshat Mikeitz
The Captain of the World - Parshat Hayyei Sarah
Two Kidnappings - Parshat Vayeira
The Rise of Kings - Parshat Lekh Lekha
Psychedelic Imagery in the Torah
A Rabbi, A Guy, and a Goddess
Take Warning - Parshat Behukotai
The End of Slavery / Parshat Behar
Counting the Omers / Parshat Emor
Kedoshim Couplets / Parshat Kedoshim
A Queasy Land - Parshat Aharei Mot
Magic 8 - Parshat Tazria
Come Closer - Parshat Shemini
Concessions to Human Nature - Parshat Tzav
Building a Home for God - Parshat Pekudei
Broken Torah for Broken People - Parshat Vayakhel
The Origins of Yom Kippur Liturgy - Parshat Ki Tisa
Everyday Torah - Parashat Tetzaveh
The Third Rail - Parshat Terumah
Third Category of Law - Parshat Mishpatim
TRUSTING MOSHE - Parshat Yitro
LIFE AFTER PASSOVER - Parshat Beshalach
DON'T DELAY! - Parshat Bo
SHORTNESS OF BREATH - Parshat Va'era
RETURN TO THE HOUSE OF GOD – Parshat Vayishlakh
DREAM INTERPRETATION - Parshat Mikeitz
WAS ESAU BAD? - Parshat Toldot
Legends of the Cave - Parshat Hayei Sarah
BEFORE THE BINDING - Parshat Vayeira
DEFYING DESTINY - Parashat Lekh Lekha
NOAH'S COVENANT - Parashat Noach
PRIMORDIAL PAIN - Parashat Bereishit
DISSENT with Ezra Furman
THE DAY OF STOPPING - Parshat Emor
SPEECH LAWS: Gossip & Rebuke - Parshat Acharaei Mot-Kedoshim
THE SCIENCE OF BELIEF with Mayim Bialik
BONUS CLASS: THE HOUSE THAT NEVER WAS - Parshat Tazria-Metzora
SERMON: A Holy Justice, and a Just Holiness - Rabbi David Kasher
BONUS CLASS THE HOLY BROKEN TABLETS - Parshat Ki Tissa
ASTROLOGY with Chani Nicholas
BONUS CLASS: THE ORACLE STONES - Parshat Tetzaveh
BBE BONUS CLASS: PICTURES IN THE SKY: Pattern-Spotting at Sinai - Parshat Terumah
BBE BONUS CLASS: AN EYE FOR AN EYE - Parshat Mishpatim
SIBLING RIVALRY, with Moshe Kasher
BBE BONUS CLASS Deciphering the Ten Commandments - Parshat Yitro
BBE BONUS CLASS Exodus, Reconsidered – Parshat Beshalach 2.03.2023
BBE BONUS CLASS House of the Dragon - Parshat Va'era
BBE BONUS CLASS From Creation to Redemption - Parshat Shemot
BBE BONUS CLASS Joseph & his Brothers: Two Theologies of Time - Parshat Mikeitz
BBE BONUS CLASS (Almost) Everybody Likes Joseph - Parshat Vayeishev
BBE BONUS CLASS Jacob Falls in Love - Parshat Vayeitzei
BBE BONUS CLASS Our Brother Ishmael - Parshat Hayyei Sarah
Rabbi David Kasher's Book Release Party: "ParshaNut: 54 Journeys into the World of Torah Commentary"
BBE BONUS CLASS Sarah Had the Last Laugh - Parshat Vayeira
Abraham's Spiritual Development - Parshat Lekh Lekha
ParshaNut Book Release! - Rabbi David Kasher
Season Finale! - Parshat V’zot HaBrachah
BONUS CLASS Where Does Bad Come From? - Parshat Bereishi
BONUS CLASS Back to the Beginning - Parshat Ha'azinu
BONUS CLASS Inscribed in the Book of Torah- Parshat Vayeilech
The Magic Word - Parshat Nitzavim
BONUS CLASS The Sin of Sadness - Parshat Ki Tavo
Wandering Jews and Arameans - Parshat Ki Tavo
BONUS CLASS How Rabbis Deal with Moral Discomfort - Parshat Ki Teitzei
A Life in Pieces - Parshat Ki Teitzei
When Left is Right - Parshat Shoftim
The Tempter - Parshat Re’eh
BBE BONUS CLASS Two Kinds of Fear - Parshat Eikev
Both Sides Now - Parshat Eikev
What’s Love Got to Do With It? - Parshat Vaetchanan
BONUS CLASS The Axis of Evil - Parshat Devarim
Moses Grabs the Mic - Parshat Devarim
BONUS CLASS Anger Management - Parshat Matot-Masei
The Forest of Sadness - Parshat Matot-Masei
BONUS CLASS The Death Register - Parshat Pinchas
Everything is Permitted - Parshat Pinchas
Donkey Xote - Parshat Balak
BONUS CLASS The Legend of Miriam's Well - Parshat Chukat
The Birth of Jewish Culture - Parshat Hukat
BONUS CLASS Korach's Coaliton - Parshat Korach
The Ambivalent Angel - Parshat Korah
Overkill - Parshat Shelach
BONUS CLASS Appealing Divine Law - Parshat Beha'alotkha
The World's Shortest Book - Parshat Beha'alotkha
The Case of the Seventy Princes - Parshat Naso
Into the Wild - Parshat Bamidbar
BONUS CLASS Weapons of War - Parshat Behukotai
The Book of Love - Parshat Behukotai
BONUS CLASS The Meaning of Freedom - Parshat Behar
Joy and Jubilee - Parshat Behar
BONUS CLASS Kabbalistic Storytelling - Parshat Emor
A State of Moral Emergency - Parshat Emor
BONUS CLASS Decoding the Codes - Parshat Kedoshim
The Most Important Thing - Parshat Kedoshim
BONUS CLASS The Nakednesses - Parshat Acharei Mot
God is the G.O.A.T. - Parshat Acharei Mot
Telling the Story Differently
BONUS CLASS The Priests of Passover
Shedding Our S(k)ins - Parshat Metzora
BONUS CLASS The Origins of Impurity
The Haunted House - Parshat Tazria
BONUS CLASS Cold Comfort - Parshat Shemini
Kasher on Kosher - Parshat Shemini
Shattered - Parshat Tzav
BONUS CLASS The Sin of Abel - Parshat Vayikra
What's Your Sin? - Parshat Vayikra
BONUS CLASS The Weight of Eternity
A Doorway to Other Things - Parshat Pekudei
BONUS CLASS Shabbat in the Torah
Prophets and Builders - Parshat Vayakhel
In the Face of it All - Parshat Ki Tisa
BONUS CLASS The Priestly Crown - Parshat Tetzaveh
Moses is Missing - Parshat Tetzaveh
BONUS CLASS The Devil and the Details - Parshat Terumah
Unicorns & Mermaids - Parshat Terumah
BONUS CLASS The Other “Justice” - Parshat Mishpatim
Kosher Heresy - Parshat Mishpatim
BONUS CLASS Our Dangerous God - Parshat Yitro
Relatives and Revelations - Parshat Yitro
Water, Water Everywhere - Parshat Beshalah
New Year's Torah - Parshat Bo
Stopping the Spread - Parshat Va’era
BONUS CLASS: A Bridegroom of Blood - Parshat Shemot
One Little Verse - Parshat Shemot
BONUS CLASS: Jacob's Obsession - Parshat Vayechi
BONUS CLASS: The Woman Between the Walls - Parshat Vayigash
Ep 12: Zombie Love - Parshat Vayehi
Ep 11: A New Approach - Parshat Vayigash
Ep 10: Torah Dreams - Parshat Mikeitz
Ep 9: Weird, Wild Stuff - Parshat Vayeishev
EP 8: Vampire Torah - Parshat Vayishlah
EP 7: Talking Rocks - Parshat Vayetzei
EP 6: Playing Favorites - Parshat Toldot
Ep 5: Kindred Spirits - Parsha Hayei Sara
Ep 4: Be Disturbed. Be Very Disturbed. - Parshat Vayera
Ep 3: Children of the Torah - Parshat Lekh Lekha
Ep 2: What's Wrong with Noah? - Parshat Noah
Ep. 1: Naked Torah - Parshat Bereishit