All Episodes

#110: Man As Microcosm

#109: The Sanctuary of the Heart

#108: The Power of Pre-Sin Adam

#107: Created in the Image of God

#106: Mishnah Commentary, Heuristics, and Appendices

#105: Post-Mishnaic Development of Oral Torah

#104: Sixth Order of Mishnah (Purity)

#103: Fifth Order of Mishnah (Sacrifices)

#102: Fourth Order of Mishnah (Damages)

#101: Third Order of Mishnah (Women)

#100: Second Order of Mishnah (Festivals)

#99: First Order of Mishnah (Planting)

#98: Components of Oral Torah

#97: Real and Fraudulent Prophecy

#96: Origins of Oral Torah

#95: Venues of Reward and Punishment

#94: The (Near Total) Inaccessibility of Spiritual Pleasure

#93: Ultimate Reward and Punishment: Rambam’s Magisterial Essay Part 1

#92: World of Souls

#91: The Purpose of Torah

#90: Testimony at Sinai

#89: Where Atheists Go Wrong

#88: Unresolved Mysteries of Resurrection

#87: The Timeline of Resurrection

#86: The Nature of the Ultimate Resurrection

#85: The Point of Resurrection

#84: Rambam’s Epistle of Resurrection

#83: The Nature of the Preliminary Resurrection

#82: Messianic Resurrection

#81: Supernatural Resurrection

#80: Resurrection: An Introduction

#79: Messiah Panoply: Messiah Ben Joseph, Gog and Magog, Elijah, Resurrection, etc.

#78: Preparing for Messiah

#77: False and Unrealized Messiahs

#76: Characteristics of King Messiah

#75: Indications of the Messianic Era

#74: Messianic Prognostication

#73: The Sequencing of Messiah

#72: The Variability of Messiah

#71: The Inevitability of Messiah

#70: The Messianic Renaissance

#69: The Miracles of Messiah

#68: The Persona of King Messiah

#67: The Messianic Revolution

#66: The Mechanisms of Messiah

#65: The Objective of Messiah

#64: Messiah: A General Introduction

#63: Admission to the Afterlife

#62: The Experience of the Afterlife

#61: Reincarnation

#60: The Mechanics of the Afterlife

#59: Paradise and Purgatory

#58: Post-Mortem Judgment and Cleansing

#57: The Afterlife in Torah Literature

#56: The Unique Markers of a Jewish Soul

#55: The Transposition of the Soul

#54: The Origin of the Soul

#53: The Anatomy of the Soul

#52: What Happens After You Die: An Eschatological Timeline

#51: How God Dispenses Divine Reward and Punishment

#50: Divine Reward and Punishment: A General Introduction

#49: Free Will and Divine Foreknowledge

#48: How Pedigree and Past Lives Determine Circumstances

#47: Frameworks for Human Situations, Sufferings, and Successes

#46: Divine Omniscience

#45: The Immutability of Torah

#44: Torah Study: The Soul’s Panacea

#43: Torah Fusion

#42: Torah Study: Our National Pastime

#41: Immanent Proofs for the Divinity of the Torah + TORCH Fundraiser

#40: The Case for the Divinity of Torah

#39: What is Kabbalah?

#38: What is Halacha?

#37: What is Aggadah?

#36: What is Talmud?

#35: What is Mishnah?

#34: Torah Under Siege: The Grounds for Codification of Oral Torah

#33: Torah in the Second Temple Era

#32: From Moses to the Men of the Great Assembly: Development, Systematization, and Perpetuation of Torah

#31: Innovation and Dynamism in Oral Torah

#30: What is Oral Torah?

#29: The Comprehensiveness of Torah

#28: The Divine Torah: An Expanded Definition

#27: Mosaic Prophecy

#26: Moses: The Greatest Man

#25: The History of Prophecy + FREE TORCH Gift

#24: Prophecy: An Introduction

#23: The Parameters of Divine Providence

#22: God Alone is Worthy of Worship

#21: Torah and Science: Can they be Reconciled?

#20: Creation Ex Nihilo and the Age of the Universe Question

#19: The Incorporeality of God

#18: Why Bad Things Happen to Good People: Three Torah Perspectives on this Vexing Problem

#17: Why Bad Things Happen to Good People: An Introduction to Jewish Theodicy

#16: How can Humans have Free Will if God is in Total Control?

#15: The Singularity of God

#14: Faith vs. Emunah: Understanding the Difference between Intellectual and Instinctual Belief in God

#13: Does God’s Creation of the Universe Conflict with the Principle of God’s Perfection?

#12: The Thirteen Principles of Jewish Faith: God as Creator and Sustainer

#11: Lost in Transmission: What Happens When Errors Occur in Oral Torah

#10: Codifying the Oral Torah

#9: Clear and Convincing Evidence to the Error-Free Transmission of the Oral Torah

#8: Why Moses Didn’t Simply Write Down the Oral Torah?

#7: Introduction to Oral Torah

#6: Incontrovertible Evidence to the Divinity of the Torah

#5: An Unprecedented Eternal Nation

#4: The Cognitive Dissonance to the Veracity of the Torah and why Sinai Denial is on Shakier Intellectual Grounds than Holocaust Denial

#3: Implications of the Authorship of the Torah

#2: The Fallacy of the Bible Critics

#1: Who Wrote the Torah