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R. Dena Weiss: Language As a Lens Part 2
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Ki Teitzei: Three Contemporary Readings of the Rebellious Son
R. Dena Weiss: Language As a Lens Part 1
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Shoftim: The Torah of Military Service
R. Elazar Symon on Rosh Hodesh Elul: A Different Kind of Comfort
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Re'eih: The Dangers of Incitement
R. Tali Adler: What Are You Doing Here, Elijah?
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Eikev: Memory and the Divine-Human Partnership
R. Shai Held: Hope After Hope Is Lost
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Va'Ethanan: Law After War
R. Elazar Symon on Tisha B'Av: Wood and Stone
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Devarim: Eikhah: What Does God Lament?
R. Dani Passow: Esh Kodesh: Finding God in the Midst of Suffering
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Mattot-Masei: The Daughters of Tzlofhad and the Sons of Menashe
R. Tali Adler: Rabbinic Personalities: Getting to Know R. Yohanan Ben Zakkai
4th of July Special: R. Ethan Tucker: 250 Years of Judaism in America
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Pinhas: Between Optional and Obligatory Wars
R. Elazar Symon on the 17th of Tammuz: What Must Be Broken
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Balak: “A People Like a Lion”
R. Elie Kaunfer: Stepping into Prayer
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Korah: Living in Dispute
R. Dena Weiss: Unintended Consequences
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Shelah: How to Stand in Minority
R. Aviva Richman: A Torah of Sexual Ethics: Part 3
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat BeHa'alotkha: Mitzvot as a Communal Project
R. Aviva Richman: A Torah of Sexual Ethics: Part 2
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Naso: Divine Communication
R. Elazar Symon on Shavuot: Many Hearts, One Torah
R. Aviva Richman: A Torah of Sexual Ethics: Part 1
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Bemidbar: Fire, Water, Wilderness: Living With the Torah
Faith and Doubt in Our Final Hours: A Conversation Between Dr. Lydia Dugdale and R. Shai Held
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat BeHar-BeHukkotai: A Reality Without Fear
R. Elazar Symon on the Omer: Counting Old and New
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Emor: Where Do Sinners Come From?
Faith WithHeld: A Conversation Between Sarah Wildman and R. Shai Held
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Aharei Mot-Kedoshim: “Will You Hear My Voice, My Distant One?”
R. Elazar Symon on Yom HaZikaron/Yom Ha'Atzma’ut: Unless God Builds the House
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Tazria-Metzora: Giving Birth to Hope
R. Elazar Symon on Yom HaShoah: After the Silence: Rebuilding from the Holy of Holies
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Shemini: Can Death Be Explained?
How to Read a Talmudic Story: Book Talk
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Tzav: On Offerings, Wholeness, and Peace
R. Shai Held: Why Doesn't God Redeem Us Again?: Living With and Without Exodus
R. Avital Hochstein on Vayikra: From Chance to Calling
R. David Kasher: Reading Tanakh as Tanakh Reads Itself
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei: Being in the Shadow of God
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Ki Tissa: When Moshe Leaves
R. Elazar Symon on Purim: Does God Sleep?
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Tetzaveh: “Who Stays Your Hand?”: On Interdependence
Searching for the Heart of Tanakh: R. Shai Held and R. David Kasher
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Terumah: The Blueprint of Intimacy
R. Shai Held: Loving the Stranger-Sojourner (Ger)
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Mishpatim: Who Rests on Shabbat?
R. Ethan Tucker: Reading the Torah Like a Love Letter
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Yitro: An Intimate Meeting
R. Elazar Symon on Tu Bishvat: Celebrating a Birthday for a Tree
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Beshallah: Where Does Amalek Come From?
R. Shai Held: Why Don’t We Make Blessings for Interpersonal Mitzvot?
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Bo: Slaves or Warriors: Who Were We When We Left Egypt?
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Va'Era: What is Slavery?
R. Avi Strausberg: The Promise and Impossibility of Unity
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Shemot: The Choice of Knowledge
R. Avi Killip: And God Waited
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Vayehi: Truth and Peace
R. Elazar Symon on the 10th of Tevet: “A Day of Hearing”: The Other Tevet Fast
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Vayigash: Three Paths to Closeness
R. Avi Killip: Birthing Worlds
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Mikeitz: How Do You Climb Out of a Pit?
R. Elazar Symon on Hanukkah: The Miracle of Home Carried into the Street
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat VaYeishev: Yosef's Father, a Symbol of the Future
R. Avi Killip: The Kiss of Death
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat VaYishlah: From Ya'akov to Yisrael—and Back
R. David Kasher: Klal Yisrael and Beyond: Balancing Communal Obligations with Civic Responsibilities
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat VaYeitzei: A Covenant of Separation
Independence and Interdependence: When do we need to stay together, and when must we strike out on our own?
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Toldot: Rivalry or Relationship?
R. Ayal Robkin: The Apprentice Mind Part 3
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Rivkah’s Blessing
R. Ayal Robkin: The Apprentice Mind Part 2
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Vayera: The Righteous With the Wicked
R. Aviva Richman: Why Talmud is the Bedrock of My Faith
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Lekh Lekha: Walking, Tradition, and Renewal
R. Ayal Robkin: The Apprentice Mind Part 1
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Noah: "In His Generation"
R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Bereishit: What If Adam Had Reacted Differently?
R. Tali Adler on VeZot HaBerakhah: On Endings and Beginnings
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Ha'azinu: Living in Between
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayeilekh: Recreating Sinai
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Nitzavim: The Long Goodbye
R. Tali Adler: When Teshuvah Is or Should Be Impossible
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Ki Tavo: No Final Chapter
R. Dena Weiss: The Mechanics of Mercy: How Does Forgiveness Actually Work?
R. Tali Adler on Ki Teitzei: Living in the Double Exposure
R. Shai Held: Biblical Theology in a Time of Climate Emergency Part 3
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Shoftim: Even So
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Rosh Chodesh Elul: Teshuvah: Light or Salvation?
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Re'eih: Mourning as Children of God
R. Shai Held: Biblical Theology in a Time of Climate Emergency Part 2
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Eikev: Back to Eden
R. Shai Held: Biblical Theology in a Time of Climate Emergency Part 1
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Va'Ethanan: With All Your Heart
R. Shai Held on the Jewish Philanthropy Podcast: Judaism is About Love
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Devarim: The Torah of Exile
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Tisha B'Av: Between Exodus and Exile
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Mattot-Mas'ei: On the Other Side of the Jordan
Dr. Jeremy Tabick: Is Tisha B'Av Eternal?
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Pinhas: A Father’s Daughter
R. Dani Passow: Reading the Rabbis Part 3
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Balak: Turning to See
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on the 17th of Tammuz: The Memory of Tragedy
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Hukkat: Miriam of Words
R. Avi Strausberg on Pride Month 2025: Flags of Love
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Korah: Pretended Perfection
R. Dani Passow: Reading the Rabbis Part 2
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Shelah: When the Story Changes
R. Dani Passow: Reading the Rabbis Part 1
R. Tali Adler on Parashat BeHa'alotkha: Unspoken Words
R. Shai Held: Psalm for Shabbat
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Naso: Choosing to Live
R. Tali Adler on Bemidbar: A Jew Without Sinai
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Shavuot: What Did We Hear at Sinai?
R. Tali Adler on Parashat BeHar-BeHukkotai: Breaking the Cycle
R. Shai Held: Psalm for Friday
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Lag Ba'Omer: The Paradox of Respect and Humility
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Emor: A Tale of Two Structures
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Pesah Sheini: The Afterglow of Nisan
R. Tali Adler on Aharei Mot-Kedoshim: Two Wounds
R. Avi Strausberg: A God of Truth?
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Tazria-Metzora: The Discovery of Birth
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on HaZikaron/Yom Ha'Atzma’ut: The Religious Sensibility of Hatikvah
R. Tali Adler on Shemini: The Question in the Middle
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Yom HaShoah: Love in Light of Destruction
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Tzav: Ashes to Ashes
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Pesah: The Yom Kippur Before Pesah
R. Tali Adler on Vayikra: Blood and Breath
R. Avi Strausberg: Children of Believers
R. Tali Adler on Pekudei: Silver and Gold
R. Shai Held: Psalm for Thursday
R. Tali Adler on Vayakhel: Returning to Shabbat
R. David Kasher: In the Shadow of the Golem Part 3
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Ki Tissa: Who Does God Desire?
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Purim: Costumes and the Eternal Self
R. Tali Adler on Tetzaveh: Between Absence and Emptiness
R. David Kasher: In the Shadow of the Golem Part 2
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Terumah: Caring for God
R. David Kasher: In the Shadow of the Golem Part 1
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Mishpatim: The Day After
R. Shai Held: Psalm for Wednesday
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Yitro: Remembering the Shepherd
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Tu Bishvat: “The One Who Brings Forth”
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Beshallah: Ghosts in the Haggadah
R. Aviva Richman: Defining Da'at: A Jewish Perspective on Artificial Intelligence
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Bo: Telling God’s Story
R. Shai Held: Psalm for Tuesday
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Va'Era: Remembering Who We Are
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on MLK Day: A Mighty Stream
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Shemot: Choosing Hope
R. Miriam-Simma Walfish and R. Deborah Sacks Mintz: Nigun Hannah
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayehi: “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?”
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayigash: Learning to Re-Read Our Dreams
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on 10 Tevet: The Road to Destruction
R. Micha'el Rosenberg: The True Story of Hanukkah
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Mikeitz: Bringing Dinah Home
Rabbis Yitz Greenberg, Shai Held and Tali Adler: The Triumph of Life, and of Love
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayeishev: Despair Meets Hope
R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Righteous Anger Part 3
R. Tali Adler on Parashat VaYishlah: Choosing Not to Run
R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Righteous Anger Part 2
R. Tali Adler on Parashat VaYeitzei: Rachel's Sacrifice
R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Righteous Anger Part 1
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Toldot: Rivkah, The Ambivalent Matriarch
R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Is Thanksgiving a Jewish Holiday?
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Unfulfilled Promises
R. Shai Held: Psalm for Monday
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayera: The God of Hagar
R. Shai Held: Psalm for Sunday
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Lekh Lekha: The Heir Who Might Have Been
R. Ethan Tucker: From Parchment to Practice
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Noah: Surviving the Flood
Why Rain Comes From Above: A Conversation with Dr. Devora Steinmetz and Rabbanit Leah Sarna
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Bereishit: Home, Exile, and How to Wander Together
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Simhat Torah: Joy and Trembling
R. David Kasher on Parashat VeZot HaBerakhah: A Shared Inheritance
R. Shai Held: The God of the Hebrew Bible is a God of Love
R. Avi Strausberg: Midrashim of Destruction
R. David Kasher on Parashat Ha'azinu: The Poetry of Torah, Part 2
R. David Kasher on Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelekh: The Poetry of Torah, Part 1
R. Shai Held: Teshuvah and Transformation Part 2
R. David Kasher on Parashat Ki Tavo: Wellsprings of Torah
R. Shai Held: Teshuvah and Transformation Part 1
R. David Kasher on Parashat Ki Teitzei: A Life in Pieces
R. Aviva Richman: The Power and Limits of Radical Hesed
R. Avi Strausberg on Rosh Chodesh Elul: What Does Torah Offer Us This Year?
R. David Kasher on Parashat Eikev: The Hand of God
R. Elie Kaunfer: Praying Against Our Enemies in the Aleinu
R. David Kasher on Parashat Va'Etchanan: Seeking Acceptance
R. Avi Strausberg on Tisha B'Av: “Let it Not Totter and Fall”
R. David Kasher on Parashat Devarim: Moshe the Deuteronomist
R. Micha'el Rosenberg: On the Day the Messiah Was Born
R. David Kasher on Parashat Mattot-Mas'ei: Frothing With Rage
R. Avital Hochstein: Do Moshe's Hands Make War?
R. David Kasher on Parashat Pinhas: How to Read a Census
R. Avi Strausberg on the 17th of Tammuz: In the Depths of Sorrow
R. David Kasher on Parashat Balak: The View From Above
R. Ethan Tucker: The Multivocality of Halakhah
R. David Kasher on Parashat Hukkat: Language Falling on Language
R. Dena Weiss: Serving God From Yuck to Yum
R. David Kasher on Parashat Korah: Hevel’s Revenge
R. David Kasher: Midrashic Moves
R. David Kasher on Parashat Shelah: Uncovering the Spies
R. Dena Weiss: The Torah is in the Details
R. David Kasher on Parashat BeHa’alotkha: Prophecy—A Family Business
R. Shai Held: Love, Compassion, and the Future of Jewish Life
R. David Kasher on Parashat Naso: Out of the Camp
R. Avi Strausberg on Shavuot: Forgetting the Torah
R. David Kasher on Parashat Bemidbar: Naked as the Desert
R. Avi Strausberg on Pride Month 2024: Take This With You
R. David Kasher on Parashat BeHukkotai : The Purloined Letter
R. Avi Strausberg on Lag Ba'Omer: From Wave to Wave to Wave
R. David Kasher on Parashat BeHar: The Fragrance of Freedom
R. Avi Strausberg on Pesah Sheini: Demanding a Seat at the Table
R. David Kasher on Parashat Emor: Recounting the Omer
R. Avi Strausberg on Yom HaZikaron/Yom Ha'Atzma’ut: At a Distance
R. David Kasher on Parashat Kedoshim: Codes in Conversation
R. Avi Strausberg on Yom HaShoah: Power and Powerlessness
R. David Kasher on Parashat Aharei Mot: The Goat Man
R. David Kasher on Parashat Metzora: Like a Leper Messiah
Dr. Jeremy Tabick: Why Are There Four Cups at the Seder?
R. David Kasher on Parashat Tazria: Covenantal Numerology
R. Elie Kaunfer: Is the Seder Really So Ordered?
R. David Kasher on Parashat Shemini: Waters of Hope
Jewish Law and Jewish Values: A Conversation with R. Ethan Tucker and R. Aviva Richman
R. David Kasher on Parashat Tzav: Four Links in a Chain
R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Making Sense of Insensible Food Laws
R. David Kasher on Parashat Vayikra: A Prehistory of the Sacrifices
R. Avi Strausberg on Purim: Look to the World and Find God
R. David Kasher on Parashat Pekudei: The Invisible Palace
R. Leah Sarna and R. Tali Adler: The Torah of Pregnancy
R. David Kasher on Parashat VaYakhel: Half-Measures
The Gift that Does Not Keep on Giving: The Tisch With Dena Weiss #25
Soft and Strong: The Tisch With Dena Weiss #24
R. David Kasher on Parashat Ki Tissa: Facing the Fire
Spiritual Retreat: The Tisch With Dena Weiss #23
New Podcast Trailer: Answers WithHeld
The Quest for Improvement: The Tisch With Dena Weiss #22
R. David Kasher on Parashat Tetzaveh: Following the Thread
It is Better to Give: The Tisch With Dena Weiss #21
R. David Kasher on Parashat Terumah: Holy Containers
R. Elie Lehmann: Torah of the People
R. David Kasher on Parashat Mishpatim: Law as Commentary
R. Shai Held: Build Homes and Pray for the Peace of Babylon
R. David Kasher on Parashat Yitro: The Trouble With Desire
R. Ethan Tucker: Covenant, Land, Power, and Responsibility
R. David Kasher on Parashat Beshallah: Testing Each Other Out
R. Avi Strausberg on Tu Bishvat: Wait For It
R. David Kasher on Parashat Bo: Hameitz u-Matzah
R. Avi Strausberg on MLK Day: They Should Have Learned
Learning From Our Children: A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel #7
R. David Kasher on Parashat Va'Era: Divine Disclosure
R. Tali Adler: Challenging the Establishment
R. David Kasher on Parashat Shemot: Callbacks to Creation
R. Tali Adler: Inside / Outside
R. David Kasher on Parashat Vayehi: Echoes of Redemption
R. Tali Adler: When Your Torah Doesn't Belong
R. Avi Strausberg on the 10th of Tevet: The Imperative of Hope
R. David Kasher on Parashat Vayigash: The Story of Hushim ben Dan
What Are We Allowed to Feel? A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel #6
R. David Kasher on Parashat Mikeitz: Yosef the Interpreter
R. Avi Strausberg on Hanukkah: A Strong Light
Holding on to the Value of Human Dignity: A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel #5
R. David Kasher on Parashat Vayeishev: Midrashic Landscapes
R. Avital Hochstein and R. Elazar Symon: A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel #4
R. David Kasher on Parashat Vayishlah: Red Alerts
R. Shai Held: Revisiting Post-Holocaust Theology, Part 3
R. Avi Strausberg on Thanksgiving: Can We Be Worthy?
R. Avital Hochstein and R. Elazar Symon: A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel #3
R. David Kasher on Parashat Toldot: From Birthright to Blessing
R. Shai Held: Revisiting Post-Holocaust Theology, Part 2
R. David Kasher on Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Camel Cameos
R. Avital Hochstein: A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel #2
R. Shai Held: Revisiting Post-Holocaust Theology, Part 1
The Evils of Evaluation: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #20
R. David Kasher on Parashat Vayera: Ambiguous Appearances
A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel
Moral Licensing: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #19
R. David Kasher on Parashat Lekh Lekha: Reading the Signs
Impulsive Decisions: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #18
Being Self-Ignited: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #17
R. David Kasher on Parashat Noah: Naming Noah
The Joy of Belonging: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #16
R. David Kasher on Parashat Bereishit: The Grammar of God
R. Avi Strausberg on Simhat Torah: Becoming Torah
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat VeZot HaBerakhah: Blessing - A Purifying Pool of Water
R. Avi Strausberg: Holding God Holding Us
R. Avi Killip: Forgiveness, Intimacy, and the Eternal Search
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Ha'azinu: Praying for Resurrection, Literally and Figuratively
R. Jamie Weisbach: Eating as if You’re Fasting
R. Tali Adler: Sacrifice - What It Is, What It Could Be, Why It Matters
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Nitzavim-VaYelekh: How Do We Return?
R. Elie Kaunfer: Introduction to Malkhuyot
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Ki Tavo: The Power of “Amen”
Sustenance - A Talmudic and Culinary Exploration of Women in Judaism
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Ki Teitzei: Are Gerim Treated Differently in Prayer?
R. Avital Hochstein: Seeing as a Path to a Life of Ethics and Hesed
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Shoftim: Praying for Peace
Saying What We Don't Mean: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #15
Bringing Your Tears: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #14
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Re'eih: Calling God “Our Father” in Prayer
A God By Many Names: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #13
Your Better Half: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #12
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Eikev: The Meaning(s) of “Great, Mighty, and Awesome”
Spiritually Welcoming: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #11
R. Avi Killip on Tisha B'Av: How We Choose to (Re)Build
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Devarim: Praying for our Religious Leaders
R. Miriam-Simma Walfish: Hunger in the Streets of Jerusalem
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Mattot-Mas'ei: Why Praise God in Prayer?
R. Tali Adler: The Hidden Destruction of Shiloh
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Pinhas: Fixed and Spontaneous Words of Prayer
R. Avi Killip on 17 Tammuz: When Longing is the Relationship
R. Elie Kaunfer on Hukkat-Balak: Praying to God as a King
R. Shai Held: The Radical Social and Theological Vision of Deutoronomy
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Korah: Striving to be Holy
R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Righteous Anger, Useful Anger
Let it Move You: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #10
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Shelah: Speaking Directly to a God Who Sees Us
Judging with the Whole Picture: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #9
Does God Perform Miracles? The Tisch with Dena Weiss #8
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat BeHa'alotkha: Praying for Healing—Urgently
Me of Little Faith: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #7
Love is Hard: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #6
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Naso: The End of the Amidah: A Blessing from God
R. Avi Killip on Shavuot: The Beauty of Every Word
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Bemidbar: Moderating Enthusiasm for God
R. Avi Strausberg: All the Torah I Never Learned
R. Elie Kaunfer on BeHar-BeChukkotai: Praying for Freedom
R. Ethan Tucker: When an Angel is Not an Angel
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Emor: "You Are Holy": Relationship After Disappointment
R. Avi Killip on Pesah Sheini: A Ritual Made for All
R. Elie Kaunfer on Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: When God Feels Distant: The Response of the Kaddish
R. Avital Hochstein on Yom Ha-Atzma'ut: Sanctity and Land
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Tazria-Metzora: Praying for the Healing of Others
R. Avi Killip on Yom HaShoah: Legacy
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Shemini: Stoicism and Grief
R. Avi Killip: Hameitz and Uncovered Pits
Feeling the Way You Should Feel: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #5
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Tzav: The Eternal Nature of Gratitude
On Being Essential: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #4
With All of Your Might: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #3
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Vayikra: Repetition in Prayer: Constancy, Urgency, and Love
Be Careful What You Wish For: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #2
Broken Tablets, Broken Hearts: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #1
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei: "Moshe Rejoiced": Shabbat, Prayer, and Intimacy with God
The Tisch with Dena Weiss: A Taste of Hasidut
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Ki Tissa: Praying for Knowledge of God’s Essence
R. Avi Killip: Love and Hiddenness
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Tetzaveh: The Intimacy of Wearing God’s Name
R. Shai Held: (Where) is God in the Book of Esther?
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Terumah: The Particular Holiness of a Place
R. Nadav Berger: The Possibility of Intimacy with God and the Commandments
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Mishpatim: The Moral Dimension of Opening Our Eyes in the Morning
R. Avi Killip: Praying When the World is At Stake
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Yitro: Struggling to Pray with Intention
R. Avi Killip: The Gestation of a Tree
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Beshallach: Praying for Your Sake
R. Tali Adler and Joey Weisenberg: Elevating God and Us
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Bo: Praying For—or Against—Our Enemies
R. Elie Kaunfer: Hannah as Rebellious Worshiper
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Va'Era: Eighty Years of Prayer
R. Avi Killip: "Anti-Idolatry" - Talmudic Wisdom on Fighting Racism
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Shemot: Rethinking the Amidah
Dena Weiss: How to Have Difficult Conversations, Part 3
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat VaYechi: Waiting for God
Dena Weiss: How to Have Difficult Conversations, Part 2
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat VaYigash: Prayer is About Coming Closer
Dena Weiss: How to Have Difficult Conversations, Part 1
Yael Jaffe: I Know of Nothing But Miracles, Part 2
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Mikeitz: Facing the Truth
R. Avi Killip: I Know of Nothing But Miracles, Part 1
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat VaYeishev: The Meaning of Judaism
R. Avi Strausberg: The Before and After - The Sudden Deaths of Nadav and Avihu
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat VaYishlach: Dressing for Prayer
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat VaYeitzei: The Meaning of God's Holiest Name
R. Aviva Richman: Living in God's Shadow
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Toldot: Blessing God
R. Shai Held: A God Who Weeps
R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Personal Prayer and the Amidah
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R. Ethan Tucker: Midrash and the Rabbinic Imagination, Part 2
R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Tazria: Torah Rooted in the Real
R. Ethan Tucker: Midrash and the Rabbinic Imagination, Part 1
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R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Tzav: Constancy and Intermittence
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R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Mishpatim: Undoing Slavery and Acquiring Ourselves
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R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Bo: Redemptive Relationship, Part 1
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R. Tali Adler: The Torah of Reopening Part 1
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Resurrection as a Core Tenet of Judaism
Choose Life: The Central Message of the Covenant
The Age of Chastisement is Over
The Travesty of Agunot
Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue
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When Exodus Replaces Creation (Or Not)
Not the Vision, but the Journey
The Chain of Life
Prophetic Plurailism
Responsa Radio Episode 75: How Will We Return to Running Minyanim Virtually and In-Person?
Understanding the Mystifying
The Truth About Power and Divine Service
Mediating Between the Divine and the Human
From God, With Love
The Limits of Numbers
Judaism’s Utopian Vision of Universal Equality
Partners With God
A Torah to Live By
Purity-Impurity: A Code of Life and Death
Kashrut: Eating as an Act of Choosing Life
An Exodus for Egyptians? Reading Genesis and Isaiah Together
Does God Want Sacrifices—or Not?
The Pollution of Non-Acts
Announcement: Pre-Pesach Responsa Radio Live
Sacred Space, Sacred Time
God, as Defined by God (With a Little Help from Covenantal Friends)
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"The Torah Speaks in the Language of Humanity"
The Book of the Covenant
What Happened at Sinai?: From Revelation to Entering the Covenant in Love
I've Been Offered the Covid Vaccine—Now What?
"Do Not Rely on a Miracle"
The Hebrew Calendar is the First Commandment
Reading the Psalms: Episode 5
You Are Not Free Until You Are At Home
The Exodus as Orienting Event
Reading the Psalms: Episode 4
The Covenant Between the Generations
Can the essence of obligation to visit the sick and comfort mourners really be fulfilled over Zoom?
Can We Save the Unity of the Jewish People?
Reading the Psalms: Episode 3
Learning the Lessons of Hanukkah - Parashat Mikeitz 5781
Highlighting Our Joy
Reading the Psalms: Episode 2
The Messianic Life Force - Parashat VaYeishev 5781
Our Name is Israel - Parashat VaYishlach 5781
Reading the Psalms: Episode 1
The Journey to Maturation in the Covenant - Parashat VaYeitzei 5781
Rivkah Imeinu/Our Mother Rebecca: The Most Influential Matriarch - Parashat Toldot 5781
Zooming Out, Zooming In: Risk, Values, and Hard Choices with Aviva Richman and David Slusky
The Torah Came to Make a Mensch - Parashat Chayyei Sarah 5781
We Are Born Of Risk with Aviva Richman and Chavi Karkowsky
Your Arm’s Too Short to Box With God—Or is it? - Parashat VaYera 5781
Dignity and Risk with Aviva Richman, Jess Belasco, and Jonathan Malamy
Covenantal Pluralism - Parashat Lekh Lekha 5781
Covenant - Parashat Noach 5781
Creation - Parashat Bereishit 5781
For We Are Waiting for You: Enthroning God When We Feel Immobilized - Rosh Hashanah Drasha
Embracing Vulnerability: Teshuvah, Ethics, and the Age of Covid - Elul Drasha
Parashat Devarim: A Bolt from the Blue, Or: When God Falls in Love
Parashat Pinhas: Accepting the Consequences
Parashat Mattot-Mas'ei: Balancing Freedom with Responsibility, and Individual Needs with Communal Needs
Parashat Chukkat: When everything starts to look the same
Parashat Korach: On Illness
Parashat Shelach: Growing Where You Already Are
Parashat Beha'alotekha: It's Not About You
Parashat Naso: Gender and the Priestly Blessing
Shavuot 5780 - Redemption After Loss: Marriage, Rebirth, and the Book of Ruth
Parashat BeMidbar: We Are Each Pearls - The Impossibility of Counting
Spiritual Ownership: Yom HaZikaron - Yom Ha'Atzma'ut 5780
The Essence of Kaddish: Saying Kaddish in a World Without Minyanim
Pre Pesah Mini Yom Iyyun: Going At It Alone, Together
Pre Pesah Mini Yom Iyyun: Can People Change? The Haggadah and Self-Transformation
Pre Pesah Mini Yom Iyyun: The Necessity of Exile or, Why Backpacking Is A Good Thing
Pre Pesah Mini Yom Iyyun: This is My God
Pre Pesah Mini Yom Iyyun: Mah Nishtanah HaPesach HaZeh
Bite-Sized Insights From the Haggadah: Dayyenu
Bite-Sized Insights From the Haggadah: Sympathy for the Egyptians
Redemption Comes at Night
Parashat Tzav: No More Magic Eight Ball
Saying Kaddish in a World Without Minyanim: The Essence of Kaddish
Must Hiyyuv Divide Us: Intensive Talmud Class: Hullin
The Triumph of Creation
Parashat Tetzaveh: Between Ecstasy and Constancy
Parashat Ki Tissa: From the Burning Bush to Sinai
Parashat VaYakhel-Pekudei: Theory and Practice
Why I Still (Sometimes) Believe in God
Caring or Curing
Can We Still Believe in A God of Love in a World of Suffering?
“Leave Me Alone, God”: Reading Psalm 39
Weekday Amidah: Nusach and Binah's Niggun
To Satisfy All of Your Desires
Sacrifices and Prayer: The Blessing of Retzeih
What is the Story of the Jewish People?
Discovering the Wisdom of the Haggadah
From Slavery to Slavery: The True Meaning of Pesach
Open House or Members Night?: Whom to Invite to the Seder
The Torah Was Not Given to Angels, part 3
The Torah Was Not Given to Angels, part 2
The Torah Was Not Given to Angels, part 1
Why Forbid Food? Learning from the Forbidden Fruit
The Impossibility of Knowing: Siyyum on Daf Yomi Berakhot, 5780
Purim: The (Unexpected) Peoplehood Holiday
Parashat Terumah: Divine Fire in Our Homes - The Intimacy and Mystery of the Menorah
Parashat Mishpatim: You Are the Perpetrator
Parashat Yitro: Shamor and Zakhor
Parashat BeShallach: Walking through the Heart of God
Parashat Bo: Commemoration or Reenactment?
Parashat Va'Era: Living in the Double Exposure
Parashat Shemot: Gratitude and Liberation
Parashat VaYechi: Seeing in Genesis
Parashat VaYigash: The Meanings of Approach
Parashat Mikkeitz: From the Sons of Israel to Benei Yisrael
Responsa Radio Episode 68: Why Don't Jews Proselytize? ...Can They?
Parashat VaYeishev: Election and Service
Hanukkah 5780: If Our Breath Was Light
Parashat VaYishlach: To Be Angelic, Not Perfect
Responsa Radio Episode 67: If I Can Pronounce the Hebrew, Do I Need To Understand It?
Parashat VaYeitzei: Can We Be Grateful and Disappointed at the Same Time?
Parashat Toldot: To Offer Rather than Obey
Responsa Radio Episode 66: What To Do With Grandma's Treyf China
Parashat Chayyei Sarah: Isaac's Search
When Good Torah Happens to Bad People
Parashat VaYera: Every Guest an Angel
The Halakhah of Whisper Networks
Parashat Lekh Lekha: To Be More Like God: The Power to Self-Define
When Everything Goes Dark: Exploring Psalm 88
Parashat Noach: People Have Names: The Torah's Takedown of Totalitarianism
How Can We Bless God?: The Meaning(s) of “Barukh Attah HaShem”
Parashat Bereishit: A Shabbat of Your Own
Morality of Torah: Case Study in the Rebellious Son
Covenantal Joy
Parashat Ha'azinu: To Listen With Intent
Beyond Introspection
Parashat VaYeilekh: Acknowledge and Overcome
Sacrifice: What It Is, What It Could Be, Why It Matters
Parashat Nitzavim: From Chopping Down to Raising Up
When Repentance is (Im)possible (High Holidays 5780)
Parashat Ki Tavo: Chased by Blessing
What Redemption Are We Praying For?
Parashat Ki Teitzei: Explicit Forgiveness
“And Those Not With Us Here Today”: Reflections on Obligation and the Nature of the Jewish People’s Covenant with God
Parashat Shoftim: Prompt Replies
(Why) Should We Care What God Wants?
Parashat Re'eh: Gods Children
Responsa Radio Episode 65: How Do We Use Space During Yom Kippur Services?
Truth and Obligation: When Must We Decide for Ourselves?
Parashat Eikev: Think Before You Pray
Because I Said So: When Chiyyuv Falls Short
Parashat Va’Etchanan: Think Before You Pray
Tisha B'Av 5779: The Torah of Tears
Responsa Radio Episode 64: Can I Extinguish My Gas Burner on Yom Tov?
Parashat Devarim: A Man of Many Words
Parashat Matot-Masei: Poetic License
Responsa Radio Episode 63: Can I attend the theatre on Shabbat?
Parashat Balak: Structure for Success
Parashat Chukkat: Solving the Mystery
Parashat Korach: The Sting of Accusation
Responsa Radio Episode 61: Are non-Jews allowed to take on mitzvot?
Parashat Shelach: Send Yourself
Parashat BeHa’alotekha: Eye Contact
Responsa Radio Episode 60: Can I See My Therapist on Shabbat?
Parashat Naso: Beneath the Surface
Parashat BeMidbar: Heavenly Hosts
Shavuot 5779: What Fireflies Can Teach Us About Love
Parashat BeChukotai: Worth the Effort
When Learning Torah Was Deadly: The Relevance of Lag Ba-Omer
Parashat BeHar: "Just" Joking
ישראל יהודית ודמוקרטית: סוגיית גר-תושב בראי הלכה ומוסר
Born of Fire and Water: The Necessity of Queer Inclusion (Pesach Sheini 5779)
Parashat Emor: On Bows and Arrows
Parashat Kedoshim: Sacrality in Seclusion
Pirkei Avot 1:1-3
Parashat Acharei Mot: Entry and Entitlement
Four Different Questions: A Chassidic Approach to the Beginning of the Seder
Responsa Radio: Pesach Special Edition
Parashat Metzora: In Praise of Privacy
When Redemption Comes At Night: A Dvar Torah for Passover
Parashat Tazria: The Wisdom of Others
Parashat Shemini: Free as a Fish
Parashat Tzav: Priestly Impostors
Mordekhai: A Threefold Tale that is Easily Unraveled (Purim 5779)
Parashat VaYikra: The Sacred Pause
We Are But Dust: Confession, Accusation, Hope
Parashat Pekudei: Being Accountable
Parashat VaYakhel: Detail-Oriented
Parashat Ki Tissa: When God Prays
Parashat Tetzaveh: Between Economy and Luxury
Parashat Terumah: Giving Back the Gift
Parashat Mishpatim: Spiritual Progress
Parashat Yitro: Perfect Individuality
King and Kook: Do the Ends Justify the Means?
Trees that Transgress: Tu Bishvat 5779
Parashat BeShallach: Between Immanence and Transcendence
Is Self-Love a Virtue or a Vice?
Parashat Bo: The Greater Wrong
All Revelation Begins With Heartbreak: Radical Faith in Torah and Ourselves, From Maimonides to Plaskow
Was Esav Jewish? (Global Day of Jewish Learning 2018)
Parashat VaEra: Recognizing the Voices
Parashat Shemot: Addressing Your Distress
Parashat VaYechi: Prepare for the Positive
Parashat VaYigash: Difficult Conversations
Parashat Mikeitz: Clothes Don’t Make the Man
Hanukkah 5779: Celebrating in Darkness
Hanukkah 5779: Communal and Private (Re)dedication
Jews in the Modern World: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Parashat VaYeishev: The Way of Small Things
Parashat VaYishlach: Unmaking Assumptions
Parashat VaYeitzei: Praying as You Are
Parashat Toldot: Tough Love
Parashat Chayyei Sarah: Choosing Meaning
Parashat Lekh Lekha: Growing with Authenticity
Parashat Noach: A Life with Purpose
Parashat Bereishit: Inspired and Independent
Parashat V'Zot HaBerakhah: Choosing to Give
Holding and Being Held: A Theology of Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret
Parashat Ha’azinu: Tasting the Torah
Wall vs. Wall: Sukkot 5779
Are Our Sins Really Our Fault?
Vows That Divide
Yom Kippur: Purifying the Tabernacle and Ourselves (Yom Kippur 5778)
In Hiding or In Plain Sight: An Alternative Model of Repentance
On Forgiveness
Dive into the Machzor: Selichot (Penitential Prayers)
Maybe There Is Hope? (High Holidays 5779)
Parashat VaYelekh: Reveal Your Hiding
Who By Fire? The Most Controversial Prayer in Jewish Life
Isaac’s Binding, Rachel’s Tears: Sacrifice and the High Holidays
Parashat Nitzavim: Taking the First Step
Avinu Malkeinu, Rabbi Akiva's Prayer
Ki Anu Amekha (For We Are Your People): Metaphors of Us and God
Parashat Ki Tavo: The Unexamined Life
Embracing Teshuvah: A Faculty Panel
From Ethics of Sacrifice to Ethics of Care: Early modern Jewish women on Akeidat Yitzchak
Help, But Don’t Enable: Parashat Ki Teitzei
Purity and Integrity: When It Is Very Bad to be a Little Good (Summer Yom Iyyun 2018)
How Can We Really Change?
Parashat Shoftim: The Torah That You Carry
Beyond Toleration: Jews and the Fight for Religious Inclusion in America
When We Don’t Respect Our Leaders
It’s What We Do (And Don’t Do) That Matters
Parashat Re'eih: Nurture over Nature
Lying Rabbis: Between Policy and Integrity
Can We Really Re-Create Ourselves?
Parashat Eikev: The Bread of Affliction
Parashat Va'Etchanan: Conveying the Subtlety
The God of Judaism Is a God of Love (Summer Lecture Series 2018 Part 3)
Parashat Devarim: Conveying the Subtlety
Is "Love Your Enemies" A Jewish Idea? (Summer Lecture Series 2018 Part 2)
Parashat Matot-Mas'ei: Earning Our Privilege
The Great Principle of the Torah is Love, but What Does that Mean? (Summer Lecture Series 2018 Part 1)
Parashat Pinchas: Sharing the Message
Parashat Balak: Going Your Own Way
Parashat Chukkat: Recognizing Miriam
What Feminist Torah Needs to Look Like
Parashat Korach: Truly Humble
Responsa Radio Episode 59: Can I bow down down during karate class?
Parashat BeHa’alotekha: Torah for the Average
Parashat Nasso: Forbidding the Permitted
Parashat BeMidbar: A Prince, Inside and Out
Where Do We Go From Here? (Spring Lecture Series 2018)
Responsa Radio Episode 58: Can I Prepare Non-Kosher Food for a Soup Kitchen?
Shavuot 5778 - Bread from the Earth and Torah from Heaven
Parashat BeHar-BeChukotai: With You
Can Halakhah Embrace Intermarriage?(Spring Lecture Series 2018)
Parashat Emor: Drinking Torah like Milk
Why is/was intermarriage forbidden?: Back to the Text (Spring Lecture Series 2018)
Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: Setting Ourselves up for Success
Responsa Radio Episode 57: What's the deal with tattoos?
Parashat Tazria-Metzora: Confronting the Consequences
Parashat Shemini: Generosity of Spirit
Parashat Tzav: Giving with Grace
If Slavery is Not Wrong, then Nothing is Wrong: The Torah and the Struggle Against Slavery Past, Present, and Future
Parashat VaYikra: The Blessing of the Ordinary
Purim 5778: God, Hidden and Revealed
From Divine Salvation to Ironic Survival: Purim and the Secular Subversion of Pesach
Postmodern Politics: Between Purim and Pesach
(Where) Is God in the Book of Esther?
Parashat Ki Tissa: Carrying and Carrying On
Parashat Tetzaveh: Remembering Moshe
Parashat Terumah: From Table to Grave
Parashat Yitro: I Am "Like" the Lord Your God
Rabbinic Voices on Sexual Assault (Session 2): Victim, Survivor, Advocate?
Rabbinic Voices on Sexual Assault (Session 1): The Power of Definition
What if Every Day Were Tu Bishvat?
Parashat Bo: Responding to the Wicked Son
Resurrection Revisited: A Closer Look at the Blessing of Giving Life to the Dead (Dr. Eddie Scharfman Memorial Lecture)
Parashat Va'Era: What is Smart is Not Always What is Right
Parashat Shemot: On Anxiety and Reassurance
Parashat VaYechi: Kind to be Cruel
Parashat Mikeitz: Storing Fortune for the Future
חנוכה תשע״ח: אזהרתם הבהירה של נרות החנוכה בדבר פרטיקולריזם ואוניברסיליזם
Parashat VaYeishev: On Being Present
What the Talmud Taught Me about Christmas: Hanukkah 5778
Parashat VaYishlach: To Be Angelic, Not Perfect
Parashat VaYeitzei: Once Upon an Eyelash
Where Do We Go From Here? (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
When is Essence Unavoidable? (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
Parashat Chayyei Sarah: To Love Responsibly
When Gentiles are Like Jews (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
Parashat VaYera: Taking the Beloved Son
From Stranger to Convert: Turning a Biblical Outsider into a Rabbinic Insider (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
Parashat Lekh Lekha: Pray Like Someone is Listening
New Ways to Understand the Siddur: The Literary Method of Interpretation
In or Out? Biblical Definitions of the Ger (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
Parashat Noach: On Being Good Enough
Praying on the Margins: Prayers of Protest
פרשת בראשית: שבת משלך