All Episodes

THINK: Shelach - The Story Of The Ma'apilim

Reading Ruth On Lillenblum #2 - Elimelekh As A Study In (Failed) Leadership

Reading Ruth On Lillenblum #1 - Introducing Rav Y.Z. Lipovitz’s Nahalat Yosef: A Tel Aviv Commentary on Megillat Rut

B'KROVAI AKADESH: The story of Rav Tzvi Guttman, his murdered sons, and a destroyed Romanian world rebuilt in Tel Aviv

THINK Eliyahu #4: Eliyahu At Har Sinai & Eliyahu At Seder Night

THINK Eliyahu #3: Showdown at Har Carmel

THINK Eliyahu #2 - Eliyahu & Ovadyahu, or, Zealotry vs. Compromise

Miklat Torah #3 - Benji Jones on Parshat HaChodesh

Miklat Torah #2: Dani Jacobson on The Conclusions of Shemot

THINK Eliyahu #1: Introducing The Prophet Of Fire

Miklat Torah #1: Shushan & Tel Aviv & Moshe's Radiant Humility

THINK: The Faith Of The Tunnels - Reflections On The Religious Experiences Of Returned Hostages

THINK: Megillat Esther - The Upside Down Megillah

Kibbud Av v'Em #4 - What (Not) To Do With An Annoying Parent

Kibbud Av v'Eim #3 - Mother vs. Father

THINK: Kibbud Av v'Em II

THINK: Kibbud Av v'Em #1

THINK Shemot: Mosheh - The First 80 Years

Short Drash for Vayehi: Max Nordau Responds To Rachel's Tears

THINK Vayehi - Ba’alei Selicha? Yosef, Yehuda & The Possibility Of Forgiveness

THINK Vayeshev: How To Sell A Brother

Amos, Yosef & A Pair Of Shoes (cross-posted from The Matan Podcast)

THINK Vayishlach: The Brothers' Reunion, or, Letting Go Of Eisav's Heel

THINK Vayetze: In Lavan's House

THINK Toldot: A Tragedy Of Communication

THINK Haye Sara: Relationships Ruptured & Repaired

THINK Lech Lecha: How Does Avram Become Avraham? Four Scenes

THINK Noah: Noah & Avraham Confront The Day After

THINK: The Parallels Of Noach & Yonah - Two Takes On Their Centrality To The Yamim Noraim

THINK: Nehemia, or, How Did Teshuva Become A Theme Of Rosh Hashana

THINK: Ki Tetze, Shooing Away The Mother Bird & The (In)justice Of This World

THINK: Pinchas Of Peace & Power, Kana’ut & Kehuna

THINK Balak: Was Bilam Actually A Good Guy? (No, he wasn't but...)

THINK Hukkat: The Midbar As Romance

THINK: Beha'alotcha - Moshe's Crisis

THINK: The Omer & R' Akiva's Students Pt IV - Bringing The Parts Together

THINK: The Omer & R'Akiva's Students Pt III. Triumph or Tragedy? The Two Sides Of The Oven Of Akhnai

THINK: The Omer & R' Akiva's Students Pt II - Akhnai & The Clash Of Two Different Understandings Of Torah

THINK: The Omer & The Death Of R' Akiva's Students Pt I - Methodologies of Learning

THINK: Yom HaShoah The Lives & Torah of Two Giants Of Vilna: Rav Haim Ozer and Rav Gustman

A Guide To When Erev Pesach Falls On Shabbat

THINK: Rabbi Sacks, Isaiah Berlin, & Two Concepts of Freedom at Seder Night

THINK: Looking back on COVID through the lens of Purim, Pahad Yitzchak, Hanan Ben Ari & Yishai Ribo

The Purpose Of Mishloach Manot

Matanot L'Evyonim: Between Tzedaka & Mishloach Manot

THINK: Achashverosh As Hero Of The Megilla

Hostage Deals In Halacha & Jewish History V: Rav Goren & Iskat jibril (1985)

THINK: Terumah & Adar: The Hope Hardwired Into Our Tradition

THINK Yitro: When Moshe Went Up On High

Hostage Deals In Halacha & Jewish History Part IV: Rav Ovadia & Entebbe

THINK Beshalach: Hamushim - Four Fifths Didn't Want To Leave...

Hostage Deals In Halacha & Jewish History Part III

Hostage Deal In Halacha and Jewish History Part II - Letter Of The Law & Spirit Of The People

THINK Va'era : On Speech Impediments & Being Like God, Jan 2025

Hostage Deals In Halacha & Jewish History, Part I

And Aharon rejoiced in his heart

THINK - Parshat Shemot - When Hashem Sought To Kill Moshe

Think Vayehi Jan 2025