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40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #20 Gittin 56a-b - Rabbi Yohanan Ben Zakkai’s Escape

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #19 Shabbat 88a - Mount Sinai Over Their Heads

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #18 Ta’anit 22a - Common People with Entrance to the World to Come

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #17 Avodah Zara 8a Adam Sees - The World Getting Dark

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #16 Yoma 69b – The God Who Hates Lies

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #15 Ketubot 103b – Ketubot 104a: The Death of Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #14 Yoma 69b - Killing the Yetzer Hara

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #13 Ketubot 62b-63a: Rabbi Akiva & Rachel, Love and Sacrifice

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #12 Jerusalem Talmud, Bava Metzia 2:5 - Shimon Ben Shetach and Lost Objects

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #11 Taanit 21a - Nachum Ish Gamzu

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #10 Taanit 23a - Honi Planting a Tree

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #9 Menachot 44a - Tzitzit and a Prostitute

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #8 Ketubot 67b - Mar Ukva and the Pauper

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #7 Menachot 29b - Moses and Rabbi Akiva

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #6 Gittin 55b-56a: Kamtza and Bar Kamtza

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #5 Brachot 10a - Beruriah & the Thugs

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #4 Hagigah 14b - Pardes and Elisha ben Abuyah

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #3 Bava Metzia 59b - The Oven of Akhnai

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #2 Shabbat 33b - The Rashbi in the Cave

40 Talmudic Stories Every Jew Should Know: #1 Bava Metzia 84a - The Relationship of Rabbi Yochanan & Reish Lakish

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #60 Intelligence

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #59 Biocentrism

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #58 The Psychology of Epistemology

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #57 Adult Development

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #56 Cognitive Decline

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #55 Existentialism

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #54 Ethnocentrism

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #53 Miswanting

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #52 Scapegoating

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #51 The Psychology of Persuasion

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #50 The Psychology of Equity

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #49 The Psychology of AI

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #48 Noam Chomsky on Language

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #47 God in Psychology

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #46 Tragedy of The Commons

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #45 Grief

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #44 Humor

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #43 Human Connection

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #42 The Psychology of Love and Relationships

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #41 Sports Psychology

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #40 The Psychology of Change

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #39 The Conscious and The Unconscious

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #38 The Psychology of Secrets

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #37 Good Samaritan

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #36 Bandura & The Bobo Doll Experiment

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #35 Mob Mentality

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #34 The Hawthorne Effect

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #33 Courage

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #32 Fundamental Attribution Error

50 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #31 Fear

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #30 Jungian Shadows

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #29 Car Crash Experiement

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #28 Boredom

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #27 Meditation

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #26 Tribalism

50 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #25 Discipline

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #24 Resilience

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #23 Conflict Resolution

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #22 Neurodivergence and Neurodiversity

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #21 Addiction & Recovery

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #20 Awe

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #19 Tversky and Kahneman

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #18 Learning: Dewey and Vygotsky

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #17 Abraham Maslow

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #16 Creativity

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #15 Steven Pinker

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #14 Ernest Becker and Denial of Death

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #13 Gratitude

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #12 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #11 Dreams

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #10 Jean Piaget

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #9 Viktor Frankl

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #8: Beauty

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #7: Martin Seligman and Positive Psychology

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #6: Stanley Milgram on Moral Authority and Obedience

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #5: Jonathan Haidt, “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #4: Bystander Effect & The Case of Kitty Genovese

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #3: Kohlberg and Moral Development

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them Class #2: Zimbardo and The Stanford Prison Experiment

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them: Class #1 Skinner & Behaviorism

60 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them: Introduction

10 Torah Lessons on Leadership: Persuasion Over Legislation

10 Torah Lessons on Leadership: Courage and Resilience

10 Torah Lessons on Leadership: Empathy and Perspective Taking

10 Torah Lessons on Leadership: Humility

10 Torah Lessons on Leadership: Knowing When to Step Back

10 Torah Lessons on Leadership: Self- Compassion & Self-Critique

10 Torah Lessons on Leadership: It Is Not Your Duty to Finish the Work, but Neither Are You at Liberty to Neglect It

10 Torah Lessons on Leadership: Being on the Dance Floor & Being on the Balcony

10 Torah Lessons on Leadership: Know Your Triggers

10 Torah Lessons on Leadership: Can’t Be Comfortable to Learn but Can’t Push Too Hard Either

The 10 Greatest Jewish Ideas: Reinterpretation and the Power of Questions

The 10 Greatest Jewish Ideas: Embracing the Full Diversity of Emotions

The 10 Greatest Jewish Ideas: Mitzvot

The 10 Greatest Jewish Ideas: Life Affirmation

The 10 Greatest Jewish Ideas: Tzelem Elokim

The 10 Greatest Jewish Ideas: Shabbat

The 10 Greatest Jewish Ideas: Body & Soul

The 10 Greatest Jewish Ideas: We Were Slaves in Egypt

The 10 Greatest Jewish Ideas: Repair is Possible

The 10 Greatest Jewish Ideas: Everything Matters

Great Philosopher: Kwame Anthony Appiah

Great Philosopher: Martha Nussbaum

Great Philosopher: Peter Singer

Great Philosopher: Sigmund Freud

Great Philosopher: Daniel Dennett

Great Philosopher: Jacques Derrida

Great Philosopher: Noam Chomsky

Great Philosopher: Michel Foucault

Great Philosopher: John Rawls

Great Philosopher: Albert Camus

Great Philosopher: Isaiah Berlin

Great Philosophers: Simone de Beauvoir

Great Philosophers: Hannah Arendt

Great Philosophers: Emmanuel Levinas

Great Philosophers: Jean-Paul Sartre

Great Philosophers: Ludwig Wittgenstein

Great Philosophers: Martin Buber

Great Philosophers: John Dewey

Great Philosophers: Edmund Husserl

Great Philosophers: Mary Wollstonecraft

Great Philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche

Great Philosophers: William James

Great Philosophers: Karl Marx

Great Philosophers: Henry David Thoreau

Great Philosophers: Søren Kierkegaard

Great Philosophers: John Stuart Mill

Great Philosophers: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Great Philosophers: Jeremy Bentham

Great Philosophers: Immanuel Kant

Great Philosophers: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Great Philosophers: David Hume

Great Philosophers: Voltaire

Great Philosophers: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Great Philosophers: Baruch Spinoza

Great Philosophers: John Locke

Great Philosophers: Réne Descartes

Great Philosophers: Thomas Hobbes

Great Philosophers: Moses Maimonides

Great Philosophers: Averroes

Great Philosophers: Avicenna

Great Philosophers: Aristotle

Great Philosophers: Plato

Great Philosophers: Socrates

Great Philosophers: Buddha

Great Philosophers: Confucius

Jewish Kindness: Zerizut (Being Quick to Act on What's Right)

Jewish Kindness: Hitlamdut (Always Learning)

Jewish Kindness: Ometz (Striving for Courage)

Jewish Kindness: Menuchat HaNefesh (Achieving Equanimity)

Jewish Kindness: Emunah u'Bitachon (Holding Faith and Trust)

Jewish Kindness: Yirah (Living with Awe)

Jewish Kindness: Tikvah (Rejecting Despair and Cynicism)

Jewish Kindness: Atzlanut (Avoiding Laziness)

Jewish Kindness: Lihyot b'Simchah (Emanating Joy)

Jewish Kindness: Hafchatat De’agah (Reducing Worry)

Jewish Kindness: Ka’as (Restraining Anger)

Jewish Kindness: Anivut (Walking Humbly)

Jewish Kindness: Chemlah L’Ba’alei Chayim (Compassion to Animals)

Jewish Kindness: Shemirat HaTeva (Guarding the Earth)

Jewish Kindness: Lifnei Iveir Lo Titein Michshol (Not Placing a Stumbling Block Before the Blind)

Jewish Kindness: Meni'at Nekamah (Not Taking Revenge)

Jewish Kindness: Shituf Pe’ulah (Sharing)

Jewish Kindness: Ichpatiyut La’Acheirim (Reaching Out to Others)

Jewish Kindness: Hakarat Ha'Tov (Sharing Gratitude)

Jewish Kindness: Savlanut (Being Patient with Others)

Jewish Kindness: Rodeif Emet (Pursuing Truth)

Jewish Kindness: Derech Eretz (Good Manners)

Jewish Kindness: Gemilut Chasadim (Random Acts of Kindness)

Jewish Kindness: Rodeif Shalom (Pursuing Peace)

Jewish Kindness: Kol Yisrael Areivim Zeh LaZeh (Protecting Jews)

Jewish Kindness: V'Ahavta L'Rei’acha Kamocha, (Love Your Neighbor)

Jewish Kindness: Dibbur Yafeh (Speaking Kindly)

Jewish Kindness: Dan L’Chaf Zechut (Judging Favorably)

Jewish Kindness: Nichum Aveilim (Comforting Mourners)

Jewish Kindness: Hiddur Penei Zakein (Respecting the Elderly)

Jewish Kindness: Shalom Bayit (Peace in the Home)

Jewish Kindness: Caring for Widows (De’agah L’Almanot)

Jewish Kindness: Supporting the Bride and Groom (Temichut Kallah v’Chatan)

Jewish Kindness: Caring for Vulnerable Children (De’agah L’Yetomim)

Jewish Kindness: Burying the Dead (Kevurat HaMeitim)

Jewish Kindness: Loving the Stranger (Ahavat HaGeir)

Jewish Kindness: Caring for Children (De’agah L’Yeladim)

Jewish Kindness: Supporting the Poor and Lifting Up the Downtrodden (Ozeir Dalim)

Jewish Kindness: Honoring One's Parents (Kibud Av Va'Eim)

Jewish Kindness: Visiting the Sick (Bikkur Cholim)

Jewish Debates: No State, One State or Two States

Jewish Debates: Hierarchy vs. Populism; Moshe vs. Korach

Jewish Debates: Is Humor A Value?

Jewish Debates: To Fundamentally Trust or Be Skeptical

Jewish Debates: Is Life about Struggle or Peace?

Jewish Debates: On The Unity of God

Jewish Debates: The Value of the Individual vs. the Collective

Jewish Debates: Care for the Vulnerable vs. Education

Jewish Debates: Zealousness vs. Tolerance

Jewish Debates: Halacha vs. State

Jewish Debates: Hobbes vs. Anarchist: A King vs. No King

Jewish Debates: The Mussar Movement vs. the Hasidic Movement

Jewish Debates: Spinoza vs. the Rabbis of Amsterdam

Jewish Debates: What's the Purpose of Mitzvot?

Jewish Debates: Body vs. Soul

Jewish Debates: Love: Emotion vs. Deed

Jewish Debates: Judging Others Favorably vs. Judging for Justice

Jewish Debates: Prioritizing Poor vs. Equity Toward all Parties

Jewish Debates: Auschwitz vs. Sinai

Jewish Debates: Capital Punishment vs. The Death Penalty

Jewish Debates: Heaven vs. Earth

Jewish Debates: Israel vs. the Diaspora

Jewish Debates: Pro-life vs. Pro-choice

Jewish Debates: What is Greater: Learning or Action?

Jewish Debates: A Purpose to Life vs. No Meaning to Life?

Jewish Debates: Is Judaism Situated in the Past or Future?

Jewish Debates: Divine Torah vs. Biblical Criticism

Jewish Debates: Local vs. Global

Jewish Debates: The Grah vs The Besht

Jewish Debates: Truth vs. Compromise

Jewish Debates: The Angels vs. God

Jewish Debates: Ayn Rand vs. Karl Marx

Jewish Debates: Tamar Ross vs. Judith Plaskow

Jewish Debates: Abraham vs. God

Jewish Debates: Einstein, Freud, Marx vs. The Sages

Jewish Debates: Reform Judaism vs. Orthodox Judaism

Jewish Debates: Rambam vs. Ra'avad

Jewish Debates: Gun Rights vs. Gun Control

Jewish Debates: Yitz Greenberg vs. Meir Kahane

Jewish Debates: Hillel vs Shammai

39 Ways to Repair the World: Hotza'ah (Carrying from Domain to Domain)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Makeh b'Patish (Finishing an Object)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Mav'ir (Kindling)

39 Ways to Repair The World: Mechabeh (Extinguishing)

39 Ways to Repair The World: Sotair (Demolishing)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Boneh (Building)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Mochaik (Erasing 2+ Letters)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Koteiv (Writing 2+ Letters)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Mechateich (Cutting to Shape)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Memacheik (Smoothing/Scraping)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Mesharteit (Tracing/Scratching Lines)

39 Ways to Repair the World: M'abaid (Salting/Tanning Process)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Mafshit (Skinning)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Shochet (Slaughtering)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Tzud (Trapping)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Ko'reah (Tearing)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Tofair (Sewing)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Matir (Untying a Knot)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Koshair (Tying a knot)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Potzai'ah (Unweaving)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Oraig (Weaving)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Oseh Batei Nirin (Preparing to Weave)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Maisach (Stretching Threads Onto Loom)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Toveh (Spinning)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Tzovayah (Dyeing)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Menapaitz (Combing)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Melabain (Laundering)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Gozeiz (Shearing)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Bishul (Cooking)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Lush (Kneading)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Miraked (Sifting)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Tochain (Grinding)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Borer (Selecting)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Zoreh (Winnowing)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Dosh (Threshing)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Me'amer (Gathering/Bundling)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Kotzair (Reaping)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Choresh (Plowing)

39 Ways to Repair the World: Zoraya (Planting)