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Faith and Doubt in Our Final Hours: A Conversation Between Dr. Lydia Dugdale and R. Shai Held

2

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat BeHar-BeHukkotai: A Reality Without Fear

3

R. Elazar Symon on the Omer: Counting Old and New

4

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Emor: Where Do Sinners Come From?

5

Faith WithHeld: A Conversation Between Sarah Wildman and R. Shai Held

6

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Aharei Mot-Kedoshim: “Will You Hear My Voice, My Distant One?”

7

R. Elazar Symon on Yom HaZikaron/Yom Ha'Atzma’ut: Unless God Builds the House

8

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Tazria-Metzora: Giving Birth to Hope

9

R. Elazar Symon on Yom HaShoah: After the Silence: Rebuilding from the Holy of Holies

10

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Shemini: Can Death Be Explained?

11

How to Read a Talmudic Story: Book Talk

12

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Tzav: On Offerings, Wholeness, and Peace

13

R. Shai Held: Why Doesn't God Redeem Us Again?: Living With and Without Exodus

14

R. Avital Hochstein on Vayikra: From Chance to Calling

15

R. David Kasher: Reading Tanakh as Tanakh Reads Itself

16

Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei: Being in the Shadow of God

17

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Ki Tissa: When Moshe Leaves

18

R. Elazar Symon on Purim: Does God Sleep?

19

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Tetzaveh: “Who Stays Your Hand?”: On Interdependence

20

Searching for the Heart of Tanakh: R. Shai Held and R. David Kasher

21

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Terumah: The Blueprint of Intimacy

22

R. Shai Held: Loving the Stranger-Sojourner (Ger)

23

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Mishpatim: Who Rests on Shabbat?

24

R. Ethan Tucker: Reading the Torah Like a Love Letter

25

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Yitro: An Intimate Meeting

26

R. Elazar Symon on Tu Bishvat: Celebrating a Birthday for a Tree

27

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Beshallah: Where Does Amalek Come From?

28

R. Shai Held: Why Don’t We Make Blessings for Interpersonal Mitzvot?

29

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Bo: Slaves or Warriors: Who Were We When We Left Egypt?

30

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Va'Era: What is Slavery?

31

R. Avi Strausberg: The Promise and Impossibility of Unity

32

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Shemot: The Choice of Knowledge

33

R. Avi Killip: And God Waited

34

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Vayehi: Truth and Peace

35

R. Elazar Symon on the 10th of Tevet: “A Day of Hearing”: The Other Tevet Fast

36

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Vayigash: Three Paths to Closeness

37

R. Avi Killip: Birthing Worlds

38

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Mikeitz: How Do You Climb Out of a Pit?

39

R. Elazar Symon on Hanukkah: The Miracle of Home Carried into the Street

40

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat VaYeishev: Yosef's Father, a Symbol of the Future

41

R. Avi Killip: The Kiss of Death

42

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat VaYishlah: From Ya'akov to Yisrael—and Back

43

R. David Kasher: Klal Yisrael and Beyond: Balancing Communal Obligations with Civic Responsibilities

44

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat VaYeitzei: A Covenant of Separation

45

Independence and Interdependence: When do we need to stay together, and when must we strike out on our own?

46

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Toldot: Rivalry or Relationship?

47

R. Ayal Robkin: The Apprentice Mind Part 3

48

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Rivkah’s Blessing

49

R. Ayal Robkin: The Apprentice Mind Part 2

50

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Vayera: The Righteous With the Wicked

51

R. Aviva Richman: Why Talmud is the Bedrock of My Faith

52

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Lekh Lekha: Walking, Tradition, and Renewal

53

R. Ayal Robkin: The Apprentice Mind Part 1

54

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Noah: "In His Generation"

55

R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Bereishit: What If Adam Had Reacted Differently?

56

R. Tali Adler on VeZot HaBerakhah: On Endings and Beginnings

57

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Ha'azinu: Living in Between

58

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayeilekh: Recreating Sinai

59

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Nitzavim: The Long Goodbye

60

R. Tali Adler: When Teshuvah Is or Should Be Impossible

61

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Ki Tavo: No Final Chapter

62

R. Dena Weiss: The Mechanics of Mercy: How Does Forgiveness Actually Work?

63

R. Tali Adler on Ki Teitzei: Living in the Double Exposure

64

R. Shai Held: Biblical Theology in a Time of Climate Emergency Part 3

65

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Shoftim: Even So

66

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Rosh Chodesh Elul: Teshuvah: Light or Salvation?

67

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Re'eih: Mourning as Children of God

68

R. Shai Held: Biblical Theology in a Time of Climate Emergency Part 2

69

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Eikev: Back to Eden

70

R. Shai Held: Biblical Theology in a Time of Climate Emergency Part 1

71

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Va'Ethanan: With All Your Heart

72

R. Shai Held on the Jewish Philanthropy Podcast: Judaism is About Love

73

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Devarim: The Torah of Exile

74

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Tisha B'Av: Between Exodus and Exile

75

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Mattot-Mas'ei: On the Other Side of the Jordan

76

Dr. Jeremy Tabick: Is Tisha B'Av Eternal?

77

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Pinhas: A Father’s Daughter

78

R. Dani Passow: Reading the Rabbis Part 3

79

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Balak: Turning to See

80

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on the 17th of Tammuz: The Memory of Tragedy

81

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Hukkat: Miriam of Words

82

R. Avi Strausberg on Pride Month 2025: Flags of Love

83

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Korah: Pretended Perfection

84

R. Dani Passow: Reading the Rabbis Part 2

85

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Shelah: When the Story Changes

86

R. Dani Passow: Reading the Rabbis Part 1

87

R. Tali Adler on Parashat BeHa'alotkha: Unspoken Words

88

R. Shai Held: Psalm for Shabbat

89

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Naso: Choosing to Live

90

R. Tali Adler on Bemidbar: A Jew Without Sinai

91

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Shavuot: What Did We Hear at Sinai?

92

R. Tali Adler on Parashat BeHar-BeHukkotai: Breaking the Cycle

93

R. Shai Held: Psalm for Friday

94

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Lag Ba'Omer: The Paradox of Respect and Humility

95

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Emor: A Tale of Two Structures

96

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Pesah Sheini: The Afterglow of Nisan

97

R. Tali Adler on Aharei Mot-Kedoshim: Two Wounds

98

R. Avi Strausberg: A God of Truth?

99

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Tazria-Metzora: The Discovery of Birth

100

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on HaZikaron/Yom Ha'Atzma’ut: The Religious Sensibility of Hatikvah

101

R. Tali Adler on Shemini: The Question in the Middle

102

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Yom HaShoah: Love in Light of Destruction

103

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Tzav: Ashes to Ashes

104

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Pesah: The Yom Kippur Before Pesah

105

R. Tali Adler on Vayikra: Blood and Breath

106

R. Avi Strausberg: Children of Believers

107

R. Tali Adler on Pekudei: Silver and Gold

108

R. Shai Held: Psalm for Thursday

109

R. Tali Adler on Vayakhel: Returning to Shabbat

110

R. David Kasher: In the Shadow of the Golem Part 3

111

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Ki Tissa: Who Does God Desire?

112

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Purim: Costumes and the Eternal Self

113

R. Tali Adler on Tetzaveh: Between Absence and Emptiness

114

R. David Kasher: In the Shadow of the Golem Part 2

115

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Terumah: Caring for God

116

R. David Kasher: In the Shadow of the Golem Part 1

117

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Mishpatim: The Day After

118

R. Shai Held: Psalm for Wednesday

119

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Yitro: Remembering the Shepherd

120

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Tu Bishvat: “The One Who Brings Forth”

121

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Beshallah: Ghosts in the Haggadah

122

R. Aviva Richman: Defining Da'at: A Jewish Perspective on Artificial Intelligence

123

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Bo: Telling God’s Story

124

R. Shai Held: Psalm for Tuesday

125

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Va'Era: Remembering Who We Are

126

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on MLK Day: A Mighty Stream

127

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Shemot: Choosing Hope

128

R. Miriam-Simma Walfish and R. Deborah Sacks Mintz: Nigun Hannah

129

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayehi: “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?”

130

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayigash: Learning to Re-Read Our Dreams

131

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on 10 Tevet: The Road to Destruction

132

R. Micha'el Rosenberg: The True Story of Hanukkah

133

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Mikeitz: Bringing Dinah Home

134

Rabbis Yitz Greenberg, Shai Held and Tali Adler: The Triumph of Life, and of Love

135

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayeishev: Despair Meets Hope

136

R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Righteous Anger Part 3

137

R. Tali Adler on Parashat VaYishlah: Choosing Not to Run

138

R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Righteous Anger Part 2

139

R. Tali Adler on Parashat VaYeitzei: Rachel's Sacrifice

140

R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Righteous Anger Part 1

141

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Toldot: Rivkah, The Ambivalent Matriarch

142

R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Is Thanksgiving a Jewish Holiday?

143

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Unfulfilled Promises

144

R. Shai Held: Psalm for Monday

145

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayera: The God of Hagar

146

R. Shai Held: Psalm for Sunday

147

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Lekh Lekha: The Heir Who Might Have Been

148

R. Ethan Tucker: From Parchment to Practice

149

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Noah: Surviving the Flood

150

Why Rain Comes From Above: A Conversation with Dr. Devora Steinmetz and Rabbanit Leah Sarna

151

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Bereishit: Home, Exile, and How to Wander Together

152

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Simhat Torah: Joy and Trembling

153

R. David Kasher on Parashat VeZot HaBerakhah: A Shared Inheritance

154

R. Shai Held: The God of the Hebrew Bible is a God of Love

155

R. Avi Strausberg: Midrashim of Destruction

156

R. David Kasher on Parashat Ha'azinu: The Poetry of Torah, Part 2

157

R. David Kasher on Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelekh: The Poetry of Torah, Part 1

158

R. Shai Held: Teshuvah and Transformation Part 2

159

R. David Kasher on Parashat Ki Tavo: Wellsprings of Torah

160

R. Shai Held: Teshuvah and Transformation Part 1

161

R. David Kasher on Parashat Ki Teitzei: A Life in Pieces

162

R. Aviva Richman: The Power and Limits of Radical Hesed

163

R. Avi Strausberg on Rosh Chodesh Elul: What Does Torah Offer Us This Year?

164

R. David Kasher on Parashat Eikev: The Hand of God

165

R. Elie Kaunfer: Praying Against Our Enemies in the Aleinu

166

R. David Kasher on Parashat Va'Etchanan: Seeking Acceptance

167

R. Avi Strausberg on Tisha B'Av: “Let it Not Totter and Fall”

168

R. David Kasher on Parashat Devarim: Moshe the Deuteronomist

169

R. Micha'el Rosenberg: On the Day the Messiah Was Born

170

R. David Kasher on Parashat Mattot-Mas'ei: Frothing With Rage

171

R. Avital Hochstein: Do Moshe's Hands Make War?

172

R. David Kasher on Parashat Pinhas: How to Read a Census

173

R. Avi Strausberg on the 17th of Tammuz: In the Depths of Sorrow

174

R. David Kasher on Parashat Balak: The View From Above

175

R. Ethan Tucker: The Multivocality of Halakhah

176

R. David Kasher on Parashat Hukkat: Language Falling on Language

177

R. Dena Weiss: Serving God From Yuck to Yum

178

R. David Kasher on Parashat Korah: Hevel’s Revenge

179

R. David Kasher: Midrashic Moves

180

R. David Kasher on Parashat Shelah: Uncovering the Spies

181

R. Dena Weiss: The Torah is in the Details

182

R. David Kasher on Parashat BeHa’alotkha: Prophecy—A Family Business

183

R. Shai Held: Love, Compassion, and the Future of Jewish Life

184

R. David Kasher on Parashat Naso: Out of the Camp

185

R. Avi Strausberg on Shavuot: Forgetting the Torah

186

R. David Kasher on Parashat Bemidbar: Naked as the Desert

187

R. Avi Strausberg on Pride Month 2024: Take This With You

188

R. David Kasher on Parashat BeHukkotai : The Purloined Letter

189

R. Avi Strausberg on Lag Ba'Omer: From Wave to Wave to Wave

190

R. David Kasher on Parashat BeHar: The Fragrance of Freedom

191

R. Avi Strausberg on Pesah Sheini: Demanding a Seat at the Table

192

R. David Kasher on Parashat Emor: Recounting the Omer

193

R. Avi Strausberg on Yom HaZikaron/Yom Ha'Atzma’ut: At a Distance

194

R. David Kasher on Parashat Kedoshim: Codes in Conversation

195

R. Avi Strausberg on Yom HaShoah: Power and Powerlessness

196

R. David Kasher on Parashat Aharei Mot: The Goat Man

197

R. David Kasher on Parashat Metzora: Like a Leper Messiah

198

Dr. Jeremy Tabick: Why Are There Four Cups at the Seder?

199

R. David Kasher on Parashat Tazria: Covenantal Numerology

200

R. Elie Kaunfer: Is the Seder Really So Ordered?

201

R. David Kasher on Parashat Shemini: Waters of Hope

202

Jewish Law and Jewish Values: A Conversation with R. Ethan Tucker and R. Aviva Richman

203

R. David Kasher on Parashat Tzav: Four Links in a Chain

204

R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Making Sense of Insensible Food Laws

205

R. David Kasher on Parashat Vayikra: A Prehistory of the Sacrifices

206

R. Avi Strausberg on Purim: Look to the World and Find God

207

R. David Kasher on Parashat Pekudei: The Invisible Palace

208

R. Leah Sarna and R. Tali Adler: The Torah of Pregnancy

209

R. David Kasher on Parashat VaYakhel: Half-Measures

210

The Gift that Does Not Keep on Giving: The Tisch With Dena Weiss #25

211

Soft and Strong: The Tisch With Dena Weiss #24

212

R. David Kasher on Parashat Ki Tissa: Facing the Fire

213

Spiritual Retreat: The Tisch With Dena Weiss #23

214

New Podcast Trailer: Answers WithHeld

215

The Quest for Improvement: The Tisch With Dena Weiss #22

216

R. David Kasher on Parashat Tetzaveh: Following the Thread

217

It is Better to Give: The Tisch With Dena Weiss #21

218

R. David Kasher on Parashat Terumah: Holy Containers

219

R. Elie Lehmann: Torah of the People

220

R. David Kasher on Parashat Mishpatim: Law as Commentary

221

R. Shai Held: Build Homes and Pray for the Peace of Babylon

222

R. David Kasher on Parashat Yitro: The Trouble With Desire

223

R. Ethan Tucker: Covenant, Land, Power, and Responsibility

224

R. David Kasher on Parashat Beshallah: Testing Each Other Out

225

R. Avi Strausberg on Tu Bishvat: Wait For It

226

R. David Kasher on Parashat Bo: Hameitz u-Matzah

227

R. Avi Strausberg on MLK Day: They Should Have Learned

228

Learning From Our Children: A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel #7

229

R. David Kasher on Parashat Va'Era: Divine Disclosure

230

R. Tali Adler: Challenging the Establishment

231

R. David Kasher on Parashat Shemot: Callbacks to Creation

232

R. Tali Adler: Inside / Outside

233

R. David Kasher on Parashat Vayehi: Echoes of Redemption

234

R. Tali Adler: When Your Torah Doesn't Belong

235

R. Avi Strausberg on the 10th of Tevet: The Imperative of Hope

236

R. David Kasher on Parashat Vayigash: The Story of Hushim ben Dan

237

What Are We Allowed to Feel? A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel #6

238

R. David Kasher on Parashat Mikeitz: Yosef the Interpreter

239

R. Avi Strausberg on Hanukkah: A Strong Light

240

Holding on to the Value of Human Dignity: A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel #5

241

R. David Kasher on Parashat Vayeishev: Midrashic Landscapes

242

R. Avital Hochstein and R. Elazar Symon: A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel #4

243

R. David Kasher on Parashat Vayishlah: Red Alerts

244

R. Shai Held: Revisiting Post-Holocaust Theology, Part 3

245

R. Avi Strausberg on Thanksgiving: Can We Be Worthy?

246

R. Avital Hochstein and R. Elazar Symon: A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel #3

247

R. David Kasher on Parashat Toldot: From Birthright to Blessing

248

R. Shai Held: Revisiting Post-Holocaust Theology, Part 2

249

R. David Kasher on Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Camel Cameos

250

R. Avital Hochstein: A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel #2

251

R. Shai Held: Revisiting Post-Holocaust Theology, Part 1

252

The Evils of Evaluation: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #20

253

R. David Kasher on Parashat Vayera: Ambiguous Appearances

254

A Spiritual Perspective from on the Ground in Israel

255

Moral Licensing: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #19

256

R. David Kasher on Parashat Lekh Lekha: Reading the Signs

257

Impulsive Decisions: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #18

258

Being Self-Ignited: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #17

259

R. David Kasher on Parashat Noah: Naming Noah

260

The Joy of Belonging: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #16

261

R. David Kasher on Parashat Bereishit: The Grammar of God

262

R. Avi Strausberg on Simhat Torah: Becoming Torah

263

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat VeZot HaBerakhah: Blessing - A Purifying Pool of Water

264

R. Avi Strausberg: Holding God Holding Us

265

R. Avi Killip: Forgiveness, Intimacy, and the Eternal Search

266

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Ha'azinu: Praying for Resurrection, Literally and Figuratively

267

R. Jamie Weisbach: Eating as if You’re Fasting

268

R. Tali Adler: Sacrifice - What It Is, What It Could Be, Why It Matters

269

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Nitzavim-VaYelekh: How Do We Return?

270

R. Elie Kaunfer: Introduction to Malkhuyot

271

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Ki Tavo: The Power of “Amen”

272

Sustenance - A Talmudic and Culinary Exploration of Women in Judaism

273

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Ki Teitzei: Are Gerim Treated Differently in Prayer?

274

R. Avital Hochstein: Seeing as a Path to a Life of Ethics and Hesed

275

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Shoftim: Praying for Peace

276

Saying What We Don't Mean: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #15

277

Bringing Your Tears: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #14

278

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Re'eih: Calling God “Our Father” in Prayer

279

A God By Many Names: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #13

280

Your Better Half: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #12

281

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Eikev: The Meaning(s) of “Great, Mighty, and Awesome”

282

Spiritually Welcoming: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #11

283

R. Avi Killip on Tisha B'Av: How We Choose to (Re)Build

284

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Devarim: Praying for our Religious Leaders

285

R. Miriam-Simma Walfish: Hunger in the Streets of Jerusalem

286

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Mattot-Mas'ei: Why Praise God in Prayer?

287

R. Tali Adler: The Hidden Destruction of Shiloh

288

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Pinhas: Fixed and Spontaneous Words of Prayer

289

R. Avi Killip on 17 Tammuz: When Longing is the Relationship

290

R. Elie Kaunfer on Hukkat-Balak: Praying to God as a King

291

R. Shai Held: The Radical Social and Theological Vision of Deutoronomy

292

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Korah: Striving to be Holy

293

R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Righteous Anger, Useful Anger

294

Let it Move You: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #10

295

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Shelah: Speaking Directly to a God Who Sees Us

296

Judging with the Whole Picture: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #9

297

Does God Perform Miracles? The Tisch with Dena Weiss #8

298

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat BeHa'alotkha: Praying for Healing—Urgently

299

Me of Little Faith: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #7

300

Love is Hard: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #6

301

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Naso: The End of the Amidah: A Blessing from God

302

R. Avi Killip on Shavuot: The Beauty of Every Word

303

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Bemidbar: Moderating Enthusiasm for God

304

R. Avi Strausberg: All the Torah I Never Learned

305

R. Elie Kaunfer on BeHar-BeChukkotai: Praying for Freedom

306

R. Ethan Tucker: When an Angel is Not an Angel

307

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Emor: "You Are Holy": Relationship After Disappointment

308

R. Avi Killip on Pesah Sheini: A Ritual Made for All

309

R. Elie Kaunfer on Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: When God Feels Distant: The Response of the Kaddish

310

R. Avital Hochstein on Yom Ha-Atzma'ut: Sanctity and Land

311

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Tazria-Metzora: Praying for the Healing of Others

312

R. Avi Killip on Yom HaShoah: Legacy

313

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Shemini: Stoicism and Grief

314

R. Avi Killip: Hameitz and Uncovered Pits

315

Feeling the Way You Should Feel: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #5

316

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Tzav: The Eternal Nature of Gratitude

317

On Being Essential: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #4

318

With All of Your Might: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #3

319

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Vayikra: Repetition in Prayer: Constancy, Urgency, and Love

320

Be Careful What You Wish For: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #2

321

Broken Tablets, Broken Hearts: The Tisch with Dena Weiss #1

322

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei: "Moshe Rejoiced": Shabbat, Prayer, and Intimacy with God

323

The Tisch with Dena Weiss: A Taste of Hasidut

324

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Ki Tissa: Praying for Knowledge of God’s Essence

325

R. Avi Killip: Love and Hiddenness

326

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Tetzaveh: The Intimacy of Wearing God’s Name

327

R. Shai Held: (Where) is God in the Book of Esther?

328

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Terumah: The Particular Holiness of a Place

329

R. Nadav Berger: The Possibility of Intimacy with God and the Commandments

330

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Mishpatim: The Moral Dimension of Opening Our Eyes in the Morning

331

R. Avi Killip: Praying When the World is At Stake

332

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Yitro: Struggling to Pray with Intention

333

R. Avi Killip: The Gestation of a Tree

334

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Beshallach: Praying for Your Sake

335

R. Tali Adler and Joey Weisenberg: Elevating God and Us

336

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Bo: Praying For—or Against—Our Enemies

337

R. Elie Kaunfer: Hannah as Rebellious Worshiper

338

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Va'Era: Eighty Years of Prayer

339

R. Avi Killip: "Anti-Idolatry" - Talmudic Wisdom on Fighting Racism

340

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Shemot: Rethinking the Amidah

341

Dena Weiss: How to Have Difficult Conversations, Part 3

342

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat VaYechi: Waiting for God

343

Dena Weiss: How to Have Difficult Conversations, Part 2

344

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat VaYigash: Prayer is About Coming Closer

345

Dena Weiss: How to Have Difficult Conversations, Part 1

346

Yael Jaffe: I Know of Nothing But Miracles, Part 2

347

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Mikeitz: Facing the Truth

348

R. Avi Killip: I Know of Nothing But Miracles, Part 1

349

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat VaYeishev: The Meaning of Judaism

350

R. Avi Strausberg: The Before and After - The Sudden Deaths of Nadav and Avihu

351

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat VaYishlach: Dressing for Prayer

352

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat VaYeitzei: The Meaning of God's Holiest Name

353

R. Aviva Richman: Living in God's Shadow

354

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Toldot: Blessing God

355

R. Shai Held: A God Who Weeps

356

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Personal Prayer and the Amidah

357

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat VaYera: Compromise and Acceptance

358

R. Ethan Tucker: Do We Really Think Monotheists Believe in the Same God?

359

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Lekh Lekha: Searching for Unexpected Moral Heroes Through Prayer

360

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Noah: Praying a Few Words at a Time

361

R. Elie Kaunfer on Parashat Bereishit: Relational Prayer

362

Dena Weiss: Can We Reverse the Irreversible?

363

R. Mich'ael Rosenberg: Return, Ascent, and Bloodied Wings

364

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Nitzavim: Torah of Teshuvah, Part 1

365

R. Elie Kaunfer: The Deeper Meaning of Avinu Malkeinu

366

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Ki Tavo: Reenacting Sinai

367

R. Elie Kaunfer: Who By Fire? The Most Controversial Prayer in Jewish Life

368

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Ki Teitzei: Sexual Ethics - Consent, Community, Covenant

369

R. Aviva Richman: Kingship in the Machzor

370

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Shoftim: Torah Fueled by Our Questions

371

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Re'eh: Eat, Crave, Love

372

R. Yitz Greenberg: Recreating Ourselves Through Teshuvah

373

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Eikev: Being Like God

374

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Va'Ethanan: On Prayer and the Possible

375

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Devarim: Moshe's Second Song

376

R. Aviva Richman: Words That Make Or Break Our World

377

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Mattot-Masei: Moshe's Second Song

378

R. Yitz Greenberg: The Triumph of Life, Part 3

379

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Pinchas: Moshe's Mitzvah for God

380

R. Yitz Greenberg: The Triumph of Life, Part 2

381

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Balak: A People’s Prophet, A Prophet’s People

382

R. Yitz Greenberg: The Triumph of Life, Part 1

383

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Chukkat: Critique and Creativity

384

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Korach: Fire and Flower

385

Dena Weiss: Making Shabbat Your Own, Part 2

386

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Shelach: Believing in Ourselves, Owning Our Inheritance

387

R. Shai Held: Wanting God Near Us

388

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat BeHa'alotekha: A Small and Steady Light

389

R. Avi Strausberg: I Cannot Tell a Lie... Or Can I?

390

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Naso: One Mitzvah at a Time

391

R. Tali Adler: Words That Cannot Be Written

392

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Bemidbar: Dismantling Holiness with Love

393

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat BeHukotai: From Curse to Catalyst

394

Dena Weiss: Making Shabbat Your Own

395

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Behar: Shemittah - A Restrained and Wild Love

396

R. Shai Held and Shira Hecht-Koller: The World as a Gift

397

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Emor: God Who Desires Desire

398

Dena Weiss: Pride and Privilege

399

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Kedoshim: Radical Ratzon

400

R. Shai Held: Theology in a Time of Climate Emergency

401

R. Ethan Tucker: Midrash and Rabbinic Imagination, Part 3

402

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Metzora: Speech That Heals

403

R. Ethan Tucker: Midrash and the Rabbinic Imagination, Part 2

404

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Tazria: Torah Rooted in the Real

405

R. Ethan Tucker: Midrash and the Rabbinic Imagination, Part 1

406

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Shemini: Whiplash and Endurance

407

R. Avi Strausberg: The Danger of Hope

408

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Tzav: Constancy and Intermittence

409

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Vayikra: "Calling In"

410

Dena Weiss: The Lost Sons of Avraham

411

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Pekudei: Shifting Expectations

412

R. Elie Kaunfer: The Strange Case of Moshe's Death

413

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat VaYakhel: Moshe's Gamble

414

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Ki Tissa: A Radical Shabbat

415

R. Shai Held: When Mercy Trumps Justice

416

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Tetzaveh: The Pulse of Prayer

417

R. Avi Killip: Modern Women's Midrash as a Tool for Reading our Most Difficult Texts

418

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Terumah: Redemptive Relationship, Epilogue

419

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Mishpatim: Undoing Slavery and Acquiring Ourselves

420

R. Yitz Greenberg: The Great, Mighty, and Awesome God Isn't What God Used to Be

421

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Yitro: Redemptive Relationship, Part 3

422

R. Aviva Richman on Tu Bishvat and MLK Day: Fruit Trees, Access, and Equity

423

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat BeShallach: Redemptive Relationship, Part 2

424

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Bo: Redemptive Relationship, Part 1

425

R. Shai Held: What if Shir HaShirim Really is an Allegory After All?

426

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Va’Era: Calling God Into Being

427

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat Shemot: Seeds of Slavery

428

R. Avi Strausberg: Bones of My Bones, Flesh of My Flesh

429

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat VaYechi: Unfinished Reconciliation

430

R. Tali Adler: Murder in a Midrashic Key

431

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat VaYigash: Leaning In - With Reckless Compassion

432

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat VaYeishev: Sexual Ethics, Part 2 - Integrity

433

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat VaYishlach: Sexual Ethics, Part 1 - Voice and Dignity

434

R. Aviva Richman: Rain, Dew, Wind, and Storm: The Quest for Nourishing Torah

435

R. Aviva Richman on Parashat VaYeitzei: Facing Our Blessings, Part 2

436

Book Talk Ft. Rachel Sharona Lewis and Sigal Samuel

437

R. Aviva Richman on Toldot: Facing Our Blessings, Part 1

438

R. Tali Adler: The Torah of Reopening Part 3

439

R. Tali Adler: The Torah of Reopening Part 2

440

R. Tali Adler: The Torah of Reopening Part 1

441

Ta Shma Trailer

442

Embracing an Overlooked Patriarch

443

From Sacrifice to Care: Tending the Fire of the Akeidah

444

Unlikely Origins of Prayer

445

Staying Afloat in a World of Loss

446

Our Troubled Origins: Creating Something From Something

447

Resurrection as a Core Tenet of Judaism

448

Choose Life: The Central Message of the Covenant

449

The Age of Chastisement is Over

450

The Travesty of Agunot

451

Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue

452

What Can We Learn From the War on Idolatry?

453

The Great, Mighty, and Awesome God Isn’t What S/He Used to Be

454

When Exodus Replaces Creation (Or Not)

455

Not the Vision, but the Journey

456

The Chain of Life

457

Prophetic Plurailism

458

Responsa Radio Episode 75: How Will We Return to Running Minyanim Virtually and In-Person?

459

Understanding the Mystifying

460

The Truth About Power and Divine Service

461

Mediating Between the Divine and the Human

462

From God, With Love

463

The Limits of Numbers

464

Judaism’s Utopian Vision of Universal Equality

465

Partners With God

466

A Torah to Live By

467

Purity-Impurity: A Code of Life and Death

468

Kashrut: Eating as an Act of Choosing Life

469

An Exodus for Egyptians? Reading Genesis and Isaiah Together

470

Does God Want Sacrifices—or Not?

471

The Pollution of Non-Acts

472

Announcement: Pre-Pesach Responsa Radio Live

473

Sacred Space, Sacred Time

474

God, as Defined by God (With a Little Help from Covenantal Friends)

475

On the Priesthood, Or: Holiness is Living in the Fullness of Life

476

"The Torah Speaks in the Language of Humanity"

477

The Book of the Covenant

478

What Happened at Sinai?: From Revelation to Entering the Covenant in Love

479

I've Been Offered the Covid Vaccine—Now What?

480

"Do Not Rely on a Miracle"

481

The Hebrew Calendar is the First Commandment

482

Reading the Psalms: Episode 5

483

You Are Not Free Until You Are At Home

484

The Exodus as Orienting Event

485

Reading the Psalms: Episode 4

486

The Covenant Between the Generations

487

Can the essence of obligation to visit the sick and comfort mourners really be fulfilled over Zoom?

488

Can We Save the Unity of the Jewish People?

489

Reading the Psalms: Episode 3

490

Learning the Lessons of Hanukkah - Parashat Mikeitz 5781

491

Highlighting Our Joy

492

Reading the Psalms: Episode 2

493

The Messianic Life Force - Parashat VaYeishev 5781

494

Our Name is Israel - Parashat VaYishlach 5781

495

Reading the Psalms: Episode 1

496

The Journey to Maturation in the Covenant - Parashat VaYeitzei 5781

497

Rivkah Imeinu/Our Mother Rebecca: The Most Influential Matriarch - Parashat Toldot 5781

498

Zooming Out, Zooming In: Risk, Values, and Hard Choices with Aviva Richman and David Slusky

499

The Torah Came to Make a Mensch - Parashat Chayyei Sarah 5781

500

We Are Born Of Risk with Aviva Richman and Chavi Karkowsky

501

Your Arm’s Too Short to Box With God—Or is it? - Parashat VaYera 5781

502

Dignity and Risk with Aviva Richman, Jess Belasco, and Jonathan Malamy

503

Covenantal Pluralism - Parashat Lekh Lekha 5781

504

Covenant - Parashat Noach 5781

505

Creation - Parashat Bereishit 5781

506

For We Are Waiting for You: Enthroning God When We Feel Immobilized - Rosh Hashanah Drasha

507

Embracing Vulnerability: Teshuvah, Ethics, and the Age of Covid - Elul Drasha

508

Parashat Devarim: A Bolt from the Blue, Or: When God Falls in Love

509

Parashat Pinhas: Accepting the Consequences

510

Parashat Mattot-Mas'ei: Balancing Freedom with Responsibility, and Individual Needs with Communal Needs

511

Parashat Chukkat: When everything starts to look the same

512

Parashat Korach: On Illness

513

Parashat Shelach: Growing Where You Already Are

514

Parashat Beha'alotekha: It's Not About You

515

Parashat Naso: Gender and the Priestly Blessing

516

Shavuot 5780 - Redemption After Loss: Marriage, Rebirth, and the Book of Ruth

517

Parashat BeMidbar: We Are Each Pearls - The Impossibility of Counting

518

Spiritual Ownership: Yom HaZikaron - Yom Ha'Atzma'ut 5780

519

The Essence of Kaddish: Saying Kaddish in a World Without Minyanim

520

Pre Pesah Mini Yom Iyyun: Going At It Alone, Together

521

Pre Pesah Mini Yom Iyyun: Can People Change? The Haggadah and Self-Transformation

522

Pre Pesah Mini Yom Iyyun: The Necessity of Exile or, Why Backpacking Is A Good Thing

523

Pre Pesah Mini Yom Iyyun: This is My God

524

Pre Pesah Mini Yom Iyyun: Mah Nishtanah HaPesach HaZeh

525

Bite-Sized Insights From the Haggadah: Dayyenu

526

Bite-Sized Insights From the Haggadah: Sympathy for the Egyptians

527

Redemption Comes at Night

528

Parashat Tzav: No More Magic Eight Ball

529

Saying Kaddish in a World Without Minyanim: The Essence of Kaddish

530

Must Hiyyuv Divide Us: Intensive Talmud Class: Hullin

531

The Triumph of Creation

532

Parashat Tetzaveh: Between Ecstasy and Constancy

533

Parashat Ki Tissa: From the Burning Bush to Sinai

534

Parashat VaYakhel-Pekudei: Theory and Practice

535

Why I Still (Sometimes) Believe in God

536

Caring or Curing

537

Can We Still Believe in A God of Love in a World of Suffering?

538

“Leave Me Alone, God”: Reading Psalm 39

539

Weekday Amidah: Nusach and Binah's Niggun

540

To Satisfy All of Your Desires

541

Sacrifices and Prayer: The Blessing of Retzeih

542

What is the Story of the Jewish People?

543

Discovering the Wisdom of the Haggadah

544

From Slavery to Slavery: The True Meaning of Pesach

545

Open House or Members Night?: Whom to Invite to the Seder

546

The Torah Was Not Given to Angels, part 3

547

The Torah Was Not Given to Angels, part 2

548

The Torah Was Not Given to Angels, part 1

549

Why Forbid Food? Learning from the Forbidden Fruit

550

The Impossibility of Knowing: Siyyum on Daf Yomi Berakhot, 5780

551

Purim: The (Unexpected) Peoplehood Holiday

552

Parashat Terumah: Divine Fire in Our Homes - The Intimacy and Mystery of the Menorah

553

Parashat Mishpatim: You Are the Perpetrator

554

Parashat Yitro: Shamor and Zakhor

555

Parashat BeShallach: Walking through the Heart of God

556

Parashat Bo: Commemoration or Reenactment?

557

Parashat Va'Era: Living in the Double Exposure

558

Parashat Shemot: Gratitude and Liberation

559

Parashat VaYechi: Seeing in Genesis

560

Parashat VaYigash: The Meanings of Approach

561

Parashat Mikkeitz: From the Sons of Israel to Benei Yisrael

562

Responsa Radio Episode 68: Why Don't Jews Proselytize? ...Can They?

563

Parashat VaYeishev: Election and Service

564

Hanukkah 5780: If Our Breath Was Light

565

Parashat VaYishlach: To Be Angelic, Not Perfect

566

Responsa Radio Episode 67: If I Can Pronounce the Hebrew, Do I Need To Understand It?

567

Parashat VaYeitzei: Can We Be Grateful and Disappointed at the Same Time?

568

Parashat Toldot: To Offer Rather than Obey

569

Responsa Radio Episode 66: What To Do With Grandma's Treyf China

570

Parashat Chayyei Sarah: Isaac's Search

571

When Good Torah Happens to Bad People

572

Parashat VaYera: Every Guest an Angel

573

The Halakhah of Whisper Networks

574

Parashat Lekh Lekha: To Be More Like God: The Power to Self-Define

575

When Everything Goes Dark: Exploring Psalm 88

576

Parashat Noach: People Have Names: The Torah's Takedown of Totalitarianism

577

How Can We Bless God?: The Meaning(s) of “Barukh Attah HaShem”

578

Parashat Bereishit: A Shabbat of Your Own

579

Morality of Torah: Case Study in the Rebellious Son

580

Covenantal Joy

581

Parashat Ha'azinu: To Listen With Intent

582

Beyond Introspection

583

Parashat VaYeilekh: Acknowledge and Overcome

584

Sacrifice: What It Is, What It Could Be, Why It Matters

585

Parashat Nitzavim: From Chopping Down to Raising Up

586

When Repentance is (Im)possible (High Holidays 5780)

587

Parashat Ki Tavo: Chased by Blessing

588

What Redemption Are We Praying For?

589

Parashat Ki Teitzei: Explicit Forgiveness

590

“And Those Not With Us Here Today”: Reflections on Obligation and the Nature of the Jewish People’s Covenant with God

591

Parashat Shoftim: Prompt Replies

592

(Why) Should We Care What God Wants?

593

Parashat Re'eh: Gods Children

594

Responsa Radio Episode 65: How Do We Use Space During Yom Kippur Services?

595

Truth and Obligation: When Must We Decide for Ourselves?

596

Parashat Eikev: Think Before You Pray

597

Because I Said So: When Chiyyuv Falls Short

598

Parashat Va’Etchanan: Think Before You Pray

599

Tisha B'Av 5779: The Torah of Tears

600

Responsa Radio Episode 64: Can I Extinguish My Gas Burner on Yom Tov?

601

Parashat Devarim: A Man of Many Words

602

Parashat Matot-Masei: Poetic License

603

Responsa Radio Episode 63: Can I attend the theatre on Shabbat?

604

Parashat Balak: Structure for Success

605

Parashat Chukkat: Solving the Mystery

606

Parashat Korach: The Sting of Accusation

607

Responsa Radio Episode 61: Are non-Jews allowed to take on mitzvot?

608

Parashat Shelach: Send Yourself

609

Parashat BeHa’alotekha: Eye Contact

610

Responsa Radio Episode 60: Can I See My Therapist on Shabbat?

611

Parashat Naso: Beneath the Surface

612

Parashat BeMidbar: Heavenly Hosts

613

Shavuot 5779: What Fireflies Can Teach Us About Love

614

Parashat BeChukotai: Worth the Effort

615

When Learning Torah Was Deadly: The Relevance of Lag Ba-Omer

616

Parashat BeHar: "Just" Joking

617

ישראל יהודית ודמוקרטית: סוגיית גר-תושב בראי הלכה ומוסר

618

Born of Fire and Water: The Necessity of Queer Inclusion (Pesach Sheini 5779)

619

Parashat Emor: On Bows and Arrows

620

Parashat Kedoshim: Sacrality in Seclusion

621

Pirkei Avot 1:1-3

622

Parashat Acharei Mot: Entry and Entitlement

623

Four Different Questions: A Chassidic Approach to the Beginning of the Seder

624

Responsa Radio: Pesach Special Edition

625

Parashat Metzora: In Praise of Privacy

626

When Redemption Comes At Night: A Dvar Torah for Passover

627

Parashat Tazria: The Wisdom of Others

628

Parashat Shemini: Free as a Fish

629

Parashat Tzav: Priestly Impostors

630

Mordekhai: A Threefold Tale that is Easily Unraveled (Purim 5779)

631

Parashat VaYikra: The Sacred Pause

632

We Are But Dust: Confession, Accusation, Hope

633

Parashat Pekudei: Being Accountable

634

Parashat VaYakhel: Detail-Oriented

635

Parashat Ki Tissa: When God Prays

636

Parashat Tetzaveh: Between Economy and Luxury

637

Parashat Terumah: Giving Back the Gift

638

Parashat Mishpatim: Spiritual Progress

639

Parashat Yitro: Perfect Individuality

640

King and Kook: Do the Ends Justify the Means?

641

Trees that Transgress: Tu Bishvat 5779

642

Parashat BeShallach: Between Immanence and Transcendence

643

Is Self-Love a Virtue or a Vice?

644

Parashat Bo: The Greater Wrong

645

All Revelation Begins With Heartbreak: Radical Faith in Torah and Ourselves, From Maimonides to Plaskow

646

Was Esav Jewish? (Global Day of Jewish Learning 2018)

647

Parashat VaEra: Recognizing the Voices

648

Parashat Shemot: Addressing Your Distress

649

Parashat VaYechi: Prepare for the Positive

650

Parashat VaYigash: Difficult Conversations

651

Parashat Mikeitz: Clothes Don’t Make the Man

652

Hanukkah 5779: Celebrating in Darkness

653

Hanukkah 5779: Communal and Private (Re)dedication

654

Jews in the Modern World: Looking Back, Looking Forward

655

Parashat VaYeishev: The Way of Small Things

656

Parashat VaYishlach: Unmaking Assumptions

657

Parashat VaYeitzei: Praying as You Are

658

Parashat Toldot: Tough Love

659

Parashat Chayyei Sarah: Choosing Meaning

660

Parashat Lekh Lekha: Growing with Authenticity

661

Parashat Noach: A Life with Purpose

662

Parashat Bereishit: Inspired and Independent

663

Parashat V'Zot HaBerakhah: Choosing to Give

664

Holding and Being Held: A Theology of Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret

665

Parashat Ha’azinu: Tasting the Torah

666

Wall vs. Wall: Sukkot 5779

667

Are Our Sins Really Our Fault?

668

Vows That Divide

669

Yom Kippur: Purifying the Tabernacle and Ourselves (Yom Kippur 5778)

670

In Hiding or In Plain Sight: An Alternative Model of Repentance

671

On Forgiveness

672

Dive into the Machzor: Selichot (Penitential Prayers)

673

Maybe There Is Hope? (High Holidays 5779)

674

Parashat VaYelekh: Reveal Your Hiding

675

Who By Fire? The Most Controversial Prayer in Jewish Life

676

Isaac’s Binding, Rachel’s Tears: Sacrifice and the High Holidays

677

Parashat Nitzavim: Taking the First Step

678

Avinu Malkeinu, Rabbi Akiva's Prayer

679

Ki Anu Amekha (For We Are Your People): Metaphors of Us and God

680

Parashat Ki Tavo: The Unexamined Life

681

Embracing Teshuvah: A Faculty Panel

682

From Ethics of Sacrifice to Ethics of Care: Early modern Jewish women on Akeidat Yitzchak

683

Help, But Don’t Enable: Parashat Ki Teitzei

684

Purity and Integrity: When It Is Very Bad to be a Little Good (Summer Yom Iyyun 2018)

685

How Can We Really Change?

686

Parashat Shoftim: The Torah That You Carry

687

Beyond Toleration: Jews and the Fight for Religious Inclusion in America

688

When We Don’t Respect Our Leaders

689

It’s What We Do (And Don’t Do) That Matters

690

Parashat Re'eih: Nurture over Nature

691

Lying Rabbis: Between Policy and Integrity

692

Can We Really Re-Create Ourselves?

693

Parashat Eikev: The Bread of Affliction

694

Parashat Va'Etchanan: Conveying the Subtlety

695

The God of Judaism Is a God of Love (Summer Lecture Series 2018 Part 3)

696

Parashat Devarim: Conveying the Subtlety

697

Is "Love Your Enemies" A Jewish Idea? (Summer Lecture Series 2018 Part 2)

698

Parashat Matot-Mas'ei: Earning Our Privilege

699

The Great Principle of the Torah is Love, but What Does that Mean? (Summer Lecture Series 2018 Part 1)

700

Parashat Pinchas: Sharing the Message

701

Parashat Balak: Going Your Own Way

702

Parashat Chukkat: Recognizing Miriam

703

What Feminist Torah Needs to Look Like

704

Parashat Korach: Truly Humble

705

Responsa Radio Episode 59: Can I bow down down during karate class?

706

Parashat BeHa’alotekha: Torah for the Average

707

Parashat Nasso: Forbidding the Permitted

708

Parashat BeMidbar: A Prince, Inside and Out

709

Where Do We Go From Here? (Spring Lecture Series 2018)

710

Responsa Radio Episode 58: Can I Prepare Non-Kosher Food for a Soup Kitchen?

711

Shavuot 5778 - Bread from the Earth and Torah from Heaven

712

Parashat BeHar-BeChukotai: With You

713

Can Halakhah Embrace Intermarriage?(Spring Lecture Series 2018)

714

Parashat Emor: Drinking Torah like Milk

715

Why is/was intermarriage forbidden?: Back to the Text (Spring Lecture Series 2018)

716

Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: Setting Ourselves up for Success

717

Responsa Radio Episode 57: What's the deal with tattoos?

718

Parashat Tazria-Metzora: Confronting the Consequences

719

Parashat Shemini: Generosity of Spirit

720

Parashat Tzav: Giving with Grace

721

If Slavery is Not Wrong, then Nothing is Wrong: The Torah and the Struggle Against Slavery Past, Present, and Future

722

Parashat VaYikra: The Blessing of the Ordinary

723

Purim 5778: God, Hidden and Revealed

724

From Divine Salvation to Ironic Survival: Purim and the Secular Subversion of Pesach

725

Postmodern Politics: Between Purim and Pesach

726

(Where) Is God in the Book of Esther?

727

Parashat Ki Tissa: Carrying and Carrying On

728

Parashat Tetzaveh: Remembering Moshe

729

Parashat Terumah: From Table to Grave

730

Parashat Yitro: I Am "Like" the Lord Your God

731

Rabbinic Voices on Sexual Assault (Session 2): Victim, Survivor, Advocate?

732

Rabbinic Voices on Sexual Assault (Session 1): The Power of Definition

733

What if Every Day Were Tu Bishvat?

734

Parashat Bo: Responding to the Wicked Son

735

Resurrection Revisited: A Closer Look at the Blessing of Giving Life to the Dead (Dr. Eddie Scharfman Memorial Lecture)

736

Parashat Va'Era: What is Smart is Not Always What is Right

737

Parashat Shemot: On Anxiety and Reassurance

738

Parashat VaYechi: Kind to be Cruel

739

Parashat Mikeitz: Storing Fortune for the Future

740

חנוכה תשע״ח: אזהרתם הבהירה של נרות החנוכה בדבר פרטיקולריזם ואוניברסיליזם

741

Parashat VaYeishev: On Being Present

742

What the Talmud Taught Me about Christmas: Hanukkah 5778

743

Parashat VaYishlach: To Be Angelic, Not Perfect

744

Parashat VaYeitzei: Once Upon an Eyelash

745

Where Do We Go From Here? (Fall Lecture Series 2017)

746

When is Essence Unavoidable? (Fall Lecture Series 2017)

747

Parashat Chayyei Sarah: To Love Responsibly

748

When Gentiles are Like Jews (Fall Lecture Series 2017)

749

Parashat VaYera: Taking the Beloved Son

750

From Stranger to Convert: Turning a Biblical Outsider into a Rabbinic Insider (Fall Lecture Series 2017)

751

Parashat Lekh Lekha: Pray Like Someone is Listening

752

New Ways to Understand the Siddur: The Literary Method of Interpretation

753

In or Out? Biblical Definitions of the Ger (Fall Lecture Series 2017)

754

Parashat Noach: On Being Good Enough

755

Praying on the Margins: Prayers of Protest

756

פרשת בראשית: שבת משלך