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Megillat Esther Bonus: President Yitzchak Herzog on Megillat Esther

Esther Ch. 10 Part 2 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | Esther & Yosef

Esther Ch. 10 Part 1 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson

Esther Ch. 9 by Calev Ben Dor

Esther Chs. 8 by Rabbi Sam Lebens

Esther Chs. 6 &7 by Rafi Addlestone

Esther Ch. 5 by Ilana Stein

Esther Ch. 4 by Aliza Libman Baronofsky

Esther Chs. 3-5 by Rabbi Dr. Sam Lebens

Esther Ch. 2 by Calev Ben Dor

Esther Ch. 1 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson

Kohelet Ch. 12 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | What is Hevel?

Kohelet Ch.11 by Rafi Addlestone | Joy & Loss

Kohelet Ch.10 by Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens

Kohelet Ch.9 by Tzivia Appleman

Kohelet Ch. 8 by Aliza Libman Baronofsky | Kohelet & Tishrei

Kohelet Ch.7 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | Kohelet & the Environment, That which is broken cannot be fixed

Kohelet Ch.6 by Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo | Paradox of Plenty

Kohelet Ch.5 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | What we take with us

Kohelet Ch.4 by Calev Ben Dor | Pursuit of material gain, envy, falsehood, violence and futility

Kohelet Ch.3 by Rabbi Dr. Sam Lebens | "There is a time for everything, to love, to hate..."

Purim Bonus Part 2 | Esther Chs. 6-10

Purim Bonus Part I | Esther Chs. 1-5

Kohelet Ch. 2 by Ilana Stein

Kohelet Ch.1 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson

Eicha Ch. 5 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson

Eicha Ch. 4 by Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo | One of the most disturbing Eicha chapters

Eicha Ch. 3 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | The Ideal Prophet

Eicha Ch. 2 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | The Lament Continues

Eicha Ch. 1 by Aliza Libman Baronofsky

Ruth Ch. 4 by Rabbi Gamliel

Ruth Ch. 3 by Margot Botwinick | Ploni Almoni

Ruth Ch. 2 by Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens

Ruth Ch.1 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | From Shoftim to Shmuel

Shir Hashirim Ch. 8 by Shira Kahn | Malbim and the parable of the soul

Shir Hashirim Chs. 6 & 7 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | Ani l'dodi' x3

Shir Hashirim Ch. 5 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | Love, Rashi, and Artscroll

Kohelet Ch.7 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | Kohelet & the environment: That which is broken cannot be fixed

Shir Hashirim Ch. 4 by Yonatan Rahmani

Kohelet Ch.6 by Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo | Paradox of Plenty

Shir Hashirim Ch. 3 by Aliza Libman Baronofsky | The daughters of Jerusalem

Shir Hashirim Ch. 2 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson

Shir Hashirim Ch. 1 by Yonatan Rahmani

Iyov Ch. 42C by Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens | Professor Stump, a new knowledge

Iyov Ch. 42B by Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens | Iyov's children restored.

Iyov Ch. 42A by Calev Ben Dor | The ambigous ending

Iyov Chs. 40 & 41 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | The mighty animals

Iyov Ch. 39 Ilana Stein | From the whirlwind and the question of the ostrich

Iyov Ch. 38 by Rafi Addlestone | From the whirlwind and anti-anthropocentrism

Iyov Bonus Episode by Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo: Iyov in the writings of the Rambam.

Iyov Chs. 36-37 by Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo | Elihu part #3

Iyov Ch. 33-35 by Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo | Elihu part #2 : Elihu begins the longest speech of the book thus far.

Iyov Ch. 32 by Gamliel Shmalo | Elihu part #1

Iyov Chs. 29-31 by Calev Ben Dor | Iyov's painful situation is compounded by his memories of the life he used to live

Iyov Ch. 28 by Calev Ben Dor | A pause in the narrative, the chapter of wisdom, where is she?

Iyov Ch. 27 by Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens | A tricky chapter

Iyov Ch. 25-26 by Ilana Stein | Bildad's and Iyov tussle for a third time.

Iyov Chs. 23-24 by Rafi Addlestone | Iyov responds with pathos and humanity

Iyov Ch. 22 by Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens | Elifaz's third attempt to convince Iyov of the error of his ways.

Iyov Ch. 19 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | Iyov's loneliness

Iyov Chs. 18-21 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | Bildad and Tzofar go at Iyov again implying not too delicately that he is to be counted among the wicked.

Iyov Chs. 16-17 by Ilana Stein | Ilana Stein on Maureen Kendler.

Iyov Ch. 15 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | The friends as a model of how not to be a friend

Iyov Chs. 13-14 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | The wondrous kri ketiv: Love or Fear

Iyov Ch. 12 by Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens | Iyov responds to Tzophar.

Iyov Ch. 11 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | The turn of Tzofar, friend #3.

Iyov Chs. 9-10 by Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo | Suffering protest as faith. Iyov responds Bildad and Eliphaz.

Iyov Ch. 8 by Rafi Addlestone | Bildad attempts to explain to Iyov where he's going wrong.

Iyov Chs. 6-7 by Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens | Iyov's response to Eliphaz

Iyov Chs. 4-5 by Ilana Stein

Iyov Ch. 3 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson

Iyov Ch. 2 by Calev Ben Dor | Yesterday he lost his family and possessions, today his body is afflicted and yet he refuses to curse God.

Iyov Ch. 1 by Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens | Introduction to Iyov

Misheli Ch.31 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | Eishet Chayil

Misheli Ch.30 by Ilana Stein

Misheli Ch.29 by Sam Lebens

Misheli Ch.28 by Calev Ben Dor

Mishlei Ch. 24 by Rafi Addlestone

Mishlei Chs. 22&23 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson

Mishlei Ch. 21 by Ilana Stein | Imagery of horses

Mishlei Ch.20 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | Imagery of Lions

Mishlei Ch. 19 by Aliza Libman Baronofsky

Mishlei Ch.18 by Sam Lebens | Sam Lebens unpacks the paradox that if silence of both the fool and the wise man is to be praised how can wisdom ever be imparted.

Mishlei Chs.16-17 by Ilana Stein

Mishlei Ch. 15 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | 'A soft answer turning away anger'.

Mishlei Ch. 14 by Aliza Libman Baronofsky | ע-ר-ם _arum_ a curious word with multiple even contradictory meanings that has its roots in the garden of Eden

Mishlei Ch. 12 by Ilana Stein

Mishlei Ch. 9 by Rafi Addlestone

Mishlei Ch. 6 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | What we have to learn from the ant.

Mishlei Chs. 5,7,8 by Sam Lebens

Misheli Ch.4 by Ilana Stein

Mishlei Ch.3 by Calev Ben Dor | "Her ways are ways of peace and all her paths are pleasantness"

Tehillim Ch. 150 & Mishlei Ch.1 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | We move from Psalms to Proverbs, from people turning to God, to a conversation among people.

And we're back! Tehillim Ch. 149 by Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens

Tehillim Ch. 73 by Rabbi Dr. Sam Lebens | We begin a new book of Tehillim with a heavy emphasis on the eternally painful question of why the righteous suffer.

Tehillim Ch. 72 by Ilana Stein | Looking to the future beyond his own temporal life

Tehillim Ch. 71 by Jon Muhlrad | The final chapters of Tehillim directly associated with David in which the warrior poet king looks back on his life summoning everything he has to praise God

Tehillim Ch. 70 by Rabbi Joe Wolfson | A short mizmor combining thanks, praise and fear in its few verses

Tehillim Ch. 69 by Rafi Addlestone | ואני תפילתי לך ה' עת רצון

Tehillim Ch. 68 by Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens | Describing God's relation to the physical world's human inhabitants