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Matan: One on One Parsha Podcast — 329 episodes
Episode 268- Parshat Bamidbar: Before the Light Appears
Episode 267 - Parshat Behar-Bechukotai: The Roots of the Blessings and Curses
Episode 266 - Parshat Emor: On Counting the Omer in Unprecedented Times
Episode 265 - Parshat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: The Double-Sided Coin of 'Kiddush Hashem'
Episode 264 - Parshat Tazria-Metzora: Layers that Define, Separate, and Unite (Re-broadcast)
Episode 263 - Parshat Shmini: Where Do We Go From Here?
Pesach Bonus - Grafting the Spirit of Israel (Yechezkel 37) (Rebroadcast)
Episode 261 - Parshat Tzav and Pesach: Eliyahu the Herald
Episode 260- Parshat Vayikra: When Sacrifice Is Not Enough
Episode 259- Parshat Vayakel-Pekudei (Parshat ha-chodesh): Yechezkel's Temple Vision
Episode 258 - Parshat Ki Tisa (Parshat Para): The Gift and Mystery of Tahara
Special Purim Episode: Secrets of the Scroll: Esther and Yonah, Reluctant Redeemers
Episode 257 - Parshat Tzetzaveh (Parshat Zachor)
Episode 256 - Parshat Truma: Shlomo's Temple Enterprise
Episode 255 - Parshat Mishpatim: Disillusionment with Spiritual Leadership
Episode 254 - Parshat Yitro: Voices Between Heaven and History
Episode 253- Parshat Beshalach: Devorah as a Mother of Israel
Episode 252 - Parshat Bo: Egypt's Downfall, Yirmiyahu Style
Episode 251 - Parshat Va'era: The Humbling of Egypt Through the Eyes of Yechezkel
Episode 250 - Parshat Shemot: Enslavement Through Yeshayahu's Lens
Episode 249 - Parshat Vayechi: Last Legacies and Final Vendettas
Episode 248 - Parshat Vayigash: Grafting the Spirit of Israel (Yechezkel 37)
Episode 247 - Parshat Miketz: Rebuilding with Spirit and Might
Episode 246 - Parshat Vayeshev: Societal Ills Through Amos' Eyes
Episode 245- Parshat Vayishlach: Esav as Edom and the Space Between
Episode 244 - Parshat Vayetzei: When God is Like a Lion and a Lover
Episode 243- Parshat Toldot: Divine Love and Hate
Episode 242 - Parshat Chayei Sara: Between King David's Life and Legacy
Episode 241 - Parshat Vayera: Expanding our Vessels
Episode 240 - Parshat Lech Lecha: The Seed of Avraham (Yeshayahu 40-41)
Episode 239 - Parshat Noach: The Waters of Destruction and Renewal
Episode 238 - Parshat Breishit: Welcome to Haftorah Study!
Episode 237 - Sukkot: The Mitzvah to be Joyful
Episode 236 - Parshat Ha'azinu: Resistance and Acceptance in Moshe's Death
Episode 235 - Parshat Vayelech: Hakhel and Family Education
Episode 234 - Parshat Nitzavim: National and Personal Teshuva
Episode 233 - Parshat Ki Tavo: The Heart Spaces of Tithes
Episode 232 - Parshat Ki Tezte: The Dignity of the Human Body
Episode 231 - Parshat Shoftim: Rabbinic Right and Left
Episode 230 - Noticing the Small People: Secondary Characters (3/3) (Rebroadcast)
Episode 229 - How to Character Sketch: Moshe as a Test Case (2/3) (Rebroadcast)
Episode 228 - Biblical Characterization (1/3) with Dr. Yael Ziegler (Rebroadcast)
Episode 227 - The 9 Days: Anticipating Redemption
Episode 226 - Parshat Matot-Masei: Ethics of Warfare, Then and Now
Episode 225 - Parshat Pinchas: Humble Leadership, Dynamic Law
Episode 224 - Parshat Balak: When Seeing Shouldn't Be Believing
Episode 223 - Parshat Chukat: The Life Affirming Work of Caring for the Dead
Episode 222 - Parshat Korach: How To Be A Successful Demagogue
Episode 221 - Parshat Shelach: Wedding Realism with Gratitude
Seven Biblical Readings for a Post October 7th World (Episode 7): Contemporary Biblical Heroism
Episode 220 - Parshat Bhaalotcha: The Breaking Point
Episode 219 - Parshat Naso: Leadership in the Wilderness Encampment
Episode 218 - Shavuot Special: Foundations of Torah
Seven Biblical Readings for a Post Oct. 7th World (Ep 6): Women in Combat with Rabbanit Malke Bina
Episode 217 - Parshat Bamidbar: Re-Creating Order
Seven Biblical Readings for a Post October 7th World (Ep 5): A New Covenant with Dr. Malka Simkovich
Episode 216 - Parshat Behar-Bechukotai: Broadening the Halakhic Lens
Seven Biblical Readings for a Post October 7th World (Ep 4): The Elongated Journey
Episode 215 - Parshat Emor: Contemporary Challenges of Prohibited Priestly Marriages
Seven Biblical Readings for a Post October 7th World (Ep3): A Deafening Silence with Yael Leibowitz
Episode 214 - Parshat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: Jewish Sexual Values and Ethics in this Modern Moment
Seven Biblical Readings for a Post October 7th World (Episode 2): Journeying Through Grief with Dr. Tanya White
Episode 213 - Parshat Tazria-Metzora: Concentric Circles: Layers that Define, Separate, and Unite
Seven Biblical Readings for a Post Oct. 7th World (Ep. 1): Noah,Jonah and the Search for Resilience
Episode 212 - Parshat Shmini: Kashrut, From Source to Practice
Episode 211: The Pesach Sacrifice: Meaning in the Details
Episode 210- Parshat Vayikra: The Debate Over Korbanot, Then and Now
Episode 209 - Parshat Pekudei: Mishkan Shiloh, Then and Now
Episode 208 - Parshat Vayakel: The Wonders of Human Creation
Episode 207 - Parshat Ki Tisa: The Inevitability of Sin and the Gift of Forgiveness
Episode 206: Parshat Tetzaveh - Clothing as a First Principle
Episode 205 - Parshat Truma: Joint National Projects and the Rationality of Tzimtzum
Episode 204 - Parshat Mishpatim: Halakhic Applications, Then and Now
Episode 203: Parshat Yitro - Honoring One's Parents in Theory and Practice
Episode 202: Parshat Beshalach - A Mute God and Mud on Our Shoes
Special Live Event In honor of reaching 200 episodes
Episode 201: Parshat Bo - Storytelling as a First Principle
Episode 200 - Parshat Vaera: Egalitarianism as a First Principle
Episode 199 - Shemot: The Surprising Roots of a Torah Society
Episode 198 - Parshat Vayechi: When Two Roads Diverge
Episode 197 - Parshat Vayigash: Leading with the Heart
Episode 196 - Parshat Miketz: The Narratives that No Longer Serve Us
Episode 195 - Parshay Vayeshev: Becoming a Representative of God
Episode 194 - Parshat Vayishlach: The Struggles of Yaakov
Episode 193 - Parshat Vayetze: Rachel and Leah as Paradigms
Episode 192 - Parshat Toldot: A Portrait of Yitzchak
Episode 191- Parshat Chayei Sara: The Qualities of Rivka
Episode 190- Parshat Vayera : A Portrait of Sara Imenu
Episode 189 - Parshat Lech Lecha: Avraham at War
Episode 188 - Parshat Noach: On Feeling Flooded
Episode 187 - Parshat Breishit : The Three Calls to Mankind
Episode 186 - Parshat V'zot Habracha: The Never-Ending Story
Episode 185 - Az Nashir: Women's Prayers for Our Time of Need
Episode 184 - Parshat Ha'azinu: Being Both the Children and Servants of God
Episode 183 – Parshat Nitzavim-Vayelech: On Torah Apprenticeship and Communal Perspectives
Episode 182 - Parshat Ki Tavo: The Dynamic Nature of Viduy
Episode 181 - Parshat Ki Tetze: The Characterization of Moshe Rabbeinu
Episode 180 - Parshat Shoftim: The Netziv on Innovative Torah
Episode 179 - Parshat Re'eh: A Designated 'Makom'
Episode 178 - Parshat Ekev : Communication Is the Foundation
Episode 177 - Parshat Ve'etchanan: A Rendition of His Own
Episode 176 - Parshat Devarim: Our Greatest Teachers
Episode 175 - Parshat Matot-Masei: The Shape of Commitment
Episode 174 - Parshat Pinchas: The Many Faces of Religious Violence
Episode 173 – Parshat Balak: Symptoms and Root Causes
Episode 172: Parshat Chukat: When Grief Goes Unrecognized
Episode 171 – Parshat Korach: Responses to Internal-Communal Conflict
Episode 170 - Parshat Shelach: Standing up to the Scouts
Episode 169 - Parshat Bha'alotcha: Kindling the Flames
Episode 168 - Parshat Naso: Between the Individual and the Collective
Episode 167 - Parshat Bamidbar: Community Structure in the Wilderness
Episode 166 - Parshat Bechukotai : A Return to Eden
Episode 165 - Parshat Behar: The Philosophical Roots of Shemitta
Episode 164 - Parshat Emor: Counting Up to Shavuot
Episode 163 - Parshat Kedoshim : Bringing Kedusha into our Lives
Episode 162 - Parshat Acharei Mot: The Boundaries of Touch
Episode 161 - Special Pesach Episode: Selling Chametz and other Legal Loopholes
Episode 160 - Parshat Metzora: Tzara'at and the Torah of Dis-ease
Episode 159 - Parshat Tazria: Pregnancy-A Tale of Two Readings
Episode 158 - Parshat Shmini: Kashrut Adventures
Episode 157 - Parshat Tzav: Remembering the Mikdash
Episode 156: Parshat Vayikra: Do We Really Want to Return to Sacrifices?
Episode 155: Parshat Pekudei - Betzalel as Creator
Episode 154: Parshat Vayakel - When Seeing is Perceiving (Mei Hashiloach)
Episode 153 - Parshat Ki Tisa: What Was He Thinking?
Episode 152: Parshat Tetzaveh: When Refuse becomes Incense
Episode 151 - Parshat Terumah: Sefat Emet and the Role of Shabbat in Our Week
Episode 150 - Parshat Mishpatim: Biblical Law Meets the Real World
Episode 149 - Parshat Yitro: The Character and Contribution of Yitro
Episode 148 - Parshat Beshalach: The Exodus in Its Original Context
Episode 147 - Parshat Bo: Who is Pharaoh, Anyways?
Episode 146 - Leading with the Heart
Episode 145 - Parshat Vaera: Why Enslavement?
Episode 144 - Parshat Shemot: When It All Changed
Episode 143 - Parshat Vayechi: Tying Up Loose Ends
Matan Women on the Homefront sharing Torah Care & Love ❤️
Episode 142 - Parshat Vayigash: Present and Future Brotherhood
Episode 141: The Biblical and Post-Biblical Personality of Yosef
Episode 140 : The Persistence of Evil with Dr. Tanya White (special content)
Episode 139 - Parshat Vayeshev: Leading the Family of Yaakov
Episode 138 - Parshat Vayishlach: The Evolution of Yaakov
Episode 137 - Parshat Vayetze: On Dreaming, Archetypes, and Hanan Ben Ari
Episode 136 - Parshat Toldot: The Roots of a Ruse
Episode 135 - Parshat Chayei Sara: Finding One's Imago
Episode 134 - Creativity in a Time of Crisis (Special Content)
Episode 133 - Parshat Vayera: Cultivating Loyal Servants
Episode 132 - Psalm 139: When God's Presence Both Overwhelms and Eludes (special content)
Episode 131 - Parshat Lech Lecha: Am Levadad
Episode 130 - A Portrait of Noach
Episode 129 - Parshat Bereshit: On Choosing Life
Episode 128 - Parshat V'zot Habracha: Endings as Beginnings
Episode 127 - Sukkot: Kohelet and Eden
Episode 126- Parshat Ha'azinu: 70 Faces of Leadership
Episode 125- Parshat Nitzavim- VaYelech: A Nation of Individuals
Episode 124 - Parshat Ki Tavo: Experiential Beginings
Episode 123- Parshat Ki Tetzei: Honor and Shame
Episode 122- Parshat Shoftim: Accidental Judgement
Episode 121- Parshat Re'eh: In the Eye of the Beholder
Episode 120- Parshat Ekev: The Experience of Reciprocity
Episode 119- Parshat Va'etchanan: Plusses and Minuses
Episode 118 - Tisha B'Av: The Rhetoric and Relevance of Eicha
Episode 117 - Parshat Devarim: Opening A Message for Generations
Episode 116 - Parshat Matot-Masei: The Journeys Along The Way
Episode 115: Parshat Pinchas: Mining and Undermining The Request for Inheritance
Episode 114 - Parshat Balak: Outside In
Episode 113 - Parshat Chukat: The Changing of the Guard
Episode 112 - Parshat Korah: Conflict Resolution in the Wilderness
Episode 111 - Parshat Shelah:On Lifequakes and the Spy Narrative
Episode 110 - Parshat Bha'alotcha: A Crisis of Leadership
Episode 109 - Parshat Naso: The (Potentially) Adulteress Woman and Communal Protocol
Episode 108 : Parshat Bamidbar: The Individual and the Collective
Episode 107 - Parshat Behar-Behukotai: A Shmitta Beyond Prohibition
Episode 106 : Parshat Emor - The Potential and Lived Experience of Shabbat and the Holidays
Episode 105 - Parshat Acharei Mot - Kedoshim: What Does it Mean to Be Holy?
Episode 104: Parshat Tazria-Metzora: Making Sense of Sexual Prohibitions
Episode 103 - Pesach Announcement and Parshat Shmini: The Laws of Kashrut in Theory and in Practice
Episode 102: Parshat Tzav: Making Meaning of the Korbanot
Episode 101: Parshat Vayikra - Understanding Korbanot and the Mikdash in Context
Live Podcast Recording: Teaching Tanakh Today
Episode 100 - Parshat Vayakel-Pekudei: The Mishkan and Community Building
Episode 99 - Ki Tisa: Sinning as a Nation
Episode 98 - Parshat Tetzave: Do the Clothes Make the Man?
Episode 97 - Parshat Teruma : Getting to Know the Mishkan
Episode 96 - Parshat Mishpatim: Understanding the Concept of Covenant
Episode 95 - Parshat Yitro: When 'the Other' Illuminates
Episode 94 - Parshat Beshalach: The Power of Transition
Episode 93 - Parshat Bo: The Exodus, Present and Future
Episode 92 - Parshat Vaera: The Purposes of the Plagues
Episode 91 - Parshat Shemot: The Crafting of Memory
Episode 90 - Parshat Vayechi: Enduring Legacies
Episode 89 - Parshat Vayigash: Inching Toward Resolution
Episode 88 - Parshat Miketz: You Can Never Go Home Again
Episode 87 - Parshat Vayeshev: On Thorns and Wheat in the Episode of Tamar
Episode 86 - Parshat Vayishlach: Dinah's Violation - A Family Matter
Episode 85 - Parshat Vayetze: The Relationship Between Rachel and Leah
Episode 84 - Parshat Toldot: The Struggles of Yaakov
Episode 83 - Parshat Chayei Sara: Relationship Dynamics in Bereishit
Episode 82 - Parshat Vayera: The Sacrifice of Yitzchak: Divine Commands and Familial Loyalties
Episode 81 - Parshat Lech Lecha: Lot as Imitator and Emulator
Episode 80 - Parshat Noach: Family As the Foundation of Civilization
Episode 79 - Parshat Bereishit: Intimacy As the Family's Foundation
Episode 78 - Parshat V'zot Habracha: Ending Where It Begins
Episode 77 - Parshat Ha'azinu: On Poetry and other Torah Technologies
Episode 76 - Parshat Vayelech: Public Activism and Moshe's Final Moments
Episode 75 - Parshat Nitzavim: Where Can the Torah Be Found?
Episode 74 - Parshat Ki Tavo: Happiness in the Service of God
Episode 73 - Parshat Ki Tetzeh: The Mouth That Eats and Speaks
Episode 72 - Parshat Shoftim: The Netziv on Innovative Torah
Episode 71 - Parshat Re'eh: A Designated 'Makom'
Episode 70 - Parshat Ekev: When Repetition Matters (The Writings of R. Elchanan Samet)
Episode 69 - Parshat V'etchanan: Rav Hirsch and the Sinai Experience
Episode 68 - Parshat Devarim: Devarim as Oral Law?
Episode 67 - Parshat Masei: Journeying with the Ba'al Shem Tov
Episode 66 - Parshat Matot: When Student Becomes Teacher
Episode 65 - Parshat Pinchas: Pinchas the Zealot- A Hassidic Perspective
Episode 64 - Parshat Balak: Women, Peor and The Allure of the Outside
Episode 63 - Parshat Chukat: Moshe's Leadership, Then and Now
Episode 62 - Parshat Korah: The Wilderness as Spiritual Landscape
Episode 61 - Parshat Shlach: Moshe through the Eyes of Philo
Episode 60 - Parshat Beha'alotcha: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z"l on Humility
Episode 59 - Parshat Naso: The Nazir Next Door
Episode 58 - Parshat Bamidbar: Family Dynamics and the Desert Encampment
Episode 57 - Parshat Behukotai: The Roots and Uprooting of a Nation
Episode 56 - Parshat Behar: Theological and Social Dimensions of Shemita
Episode 55 - Parshat Emor: Economic Perspectives on the Holiday Cycle
Episode 54 - Parshat Kedoshim: Love Through the Eyes of Rebbe Akiva
Episode 53 - Parshat Acharei Mot: Seeing Aaron Through the Eyes of Josephus
Episode 52 - Loving God: Shir Ha-Shirim and Pesach
Episode 51 - Parshat Metzora: When the Body Speaks for God
Episode 50 - Parshat Tazria: Birth, Then and Now
Episode 49 - Parshat Shmini: Aharon and his Sons' Death as Plot and Sub-Plot
Episode 48 - Parshat Tzav: Ritual and Moral Impurity
Episode 47 - Parshat Vayikra: Sanctity in Time, Place, and Person
Episode 46 - Parshat Pekudei: Concluding the Book of Shemot with Leon Kass
Episode 45 - Parshat Vayakel: Physicality and Creativity through the eyes of Shai Agnon
Episode 44- Parshat Ki Tisa: Having and Being
Episode 43- Parshat Tetzave: Law and Narrative Through the Eyes of Rashi
Episode 42 - Parshat Teruma: The Mishkan As A Divine Marriage
Episode 41 - Parshat Mishpatim: Creating a Just Society through the Eyes of the Or ha-Chaim
Episode 40 - Parshat Yitro: Redemption Through the Eyes of Franz Rosenzweig
Episode 39 - Parshat Beshalach: R. Moshe Shamah Recalls the Covenant
Episode 38 - Parshat Bo: Jewish History, Jewish Memory
Episode 37 - Parshat Vaera: Moshe as Lawmaker and Lawbreaker
Episode 36 - Parshat Shemot: Cassuto and the Exodus in its Ancient Egyptian Context
Episode 35 - Biblical Women (4/4)
Episode 34 - Noticing the Small People: Secondary Characters (3/4)
Episode 33 - How to Character Sketch (2/4)
Episode 32 - The World of Biblical Characters (1/4)
Episode 31 - Universal Suffering in the Eyes of Contemporary Philosophy (4/4)
Episode 30 - Grappling with National Suffering: The Holocaust (3/4)
Episode 29 - Marginalized Theologies in Rabbinic Writings (2/4)
Episode 28 - Suffering: Where Does God Fit In? The Roots of Biblical Suffering (1/4)
Episode 27 - V'zot ha-beracha: How to Die Better
Episode 26 - Shirat Ha'azinu, a song for generations
Episode 25 - Be There or Be Square: Hakhel, Yehoshua, and the Value of Experience
Episode 24 - Choice and the Circle of Life
Episode 23 - Land & Law, History & Halakha
Episode 22 - The Beautiful Captive Woman: A New Look at Midrashic Sources
Episode 21 - "The Calf That Ties Devarim and Breishit Together."
Episode 20 - The Torah’s Sensitivity to Animals
Episode 19 - Rain and Rivers: The Difference between Israel and Egypt
Episode 18- On the Importance of Listening
Episode 17 - A Sage is Greater than a Prophet
Episode 16 - Season Finale: Women Writing Torah with Dr. Erica Brown (7/7)
Episode 15 - When Three Become One: Medicine, Public Health and Halakha (6/7)
Episode 14 - Loving and Living in the Tribal Land with Tamar Weissman (5/7)
Episode 13 - Torah in Translation with Sara Daniel and Oritt Sinclair (4/7)
Episode 12 - Women Writing Wisdom with Shayna Goldberg (3/7)
Episode 11 - Reading and Writing Midrash with Simi Peters (2/7)
Episode 10 - Shayla: Matan Women's Online Responsa w/ Rabbanit Surale Rosen & Fran Miller (1/7)
Episode 9 - From Dream to Reality: Creating Matan with Rabbanit Malke Bina
Episode 8 - Learn & Tour with Shulie Mishkin
Episode 7 - Self-Knowledge, Autonomy, and Torah Life with Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson
Episode 6 - Cultivating Torah with Rabbanit Shani Taragin
Episode 5 - Leading with Torah with Margot (Reinstein) Botwinick
Episode 4 - Re-Examining Torah with Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash
Episode 3 - Thinking Torah with Tanya White
Episode 2 - Matan Torah with Dr. Yael Ziegler
Episode 1 - Living Torah with Rabbanit Adv. Yardena Bodenheimer (Cope-Yossef)
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