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Xai, how are you? — 266 episodes

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263. Wife Guy

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262. Mutually Assured Naziriteship

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261. Nazirite Tattletales

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260. Queen Helene Sets the Scene

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259. Impurity? In My Cemetery?

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258. (100) Days of Naziriteship

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257. Terms and Condiments

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256. Fiddle Leaf Figs on the Roof

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255. Going Both Ways

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254. Russian (Nazirite) Doll

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253. Nazirite, Interrupted

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252. Schrödinger’s Naziriteship

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251. Born to be a Nazirite, Forced to be Podcaster

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250. Heroes with a Half Shave

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249. Bros Shaving Bros

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248. Exceptional

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247. Drinking Problems

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246. Xai Judaism, How Unbound Are You? -- Mishnah Nazir

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245. Holy Cow

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244. Let Them Not Eat (Fig) Cake

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243. Nazirites All the Way Down

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242. There and Back Again, A Nazir's Tale

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241. A Tisket, A Tasket, An Unspecified Basket

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240. Hair Today, Nazirite Tomorrow

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239. Nazir: From Here to Forever

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238. Samson, Sams-off

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237. If You're Reading This, You're a Nazirite

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236. Settling Down

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235. Pleasure Reading

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234. What's in a name?

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233. To the Point of Distraction

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232. Squashing the Opposition

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231. Rich Torah, Poor Torah

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230. Public Affairs

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229. Can you un-Jew yourself?

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228. Intention vs Structure

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227. Cannibalism, Vegetarianism, and Origin of Morality

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226. The Secret Jewish History of the Etrog

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225. Brand Loyalty

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224. Get Off My Lawn

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223. Secret Stones and Magic Dirt

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222. Protesting Exactly the Right Amount

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221. Mommy Issues

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220. Tales of the Unbound

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219. Everything was Beautiful

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218. Weirdos No One Has Heard Of

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217. To Work, or not to Work?

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216. Mourning and Ritual

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215. Noahide and Seek

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214. Wake Me Up Before You Gecko

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213. The Rabbi and the Helpful Demon

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212. Smells Like Holy Spirit

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211. Shammai Circumcision Blues

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210. Rizz

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209. When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven

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208. Anger Management

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207. Foxy Loxy

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206. Our Purims, Our Selves

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205. Fox News

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204. A Tomb with a View

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203. Body Horror

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202. Shared Sherds: a Story of Pots and Pans

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201. Blood Stains

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200. Average Joe

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199. Temple OS 2: Modernity and Inspiration

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198. Actually, Don't Rashbi

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197. Listener Question Double Feature

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196. Demonic Smorgasbord

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195. Kotzker? I hardly know her!

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194. Mythical Thunderdome Buffet

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193. The Ghost of Genders Past

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192. Intellectual Pegging

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191. Text Change

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190. I Think We're Alone Now

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189. What's up with essential dignity?

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188. Kosher-er

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187. Temple OS 1: Introduction

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186. Immigration and Marriage

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185. Yentl-saurus

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184. Bruriah Gets Her Reputation Back

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183. Theodicy Odyssey

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182. Catch Me if You Can

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181. The Tree Whisperer

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180. Solomon Does More Crimes

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179. Tall tale

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178. And I Swear

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177. Oh, Honey!

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176. Failing Upwards

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175. Truth or Consequences

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174. A Matter of Taste

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173. Politics of Disgust

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172. Interpreting Solomon's Temple

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171. Space Oddity

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170. Dazzling Beauty

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169. The Secret Jewish History of Ordination

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168. Plane Jane

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167. Breath Play

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166. Passover and Over

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165. Vacation Break

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164. Vice, Virtue and other Gay Stuff

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163. Political Spirituality: Marianne Williamson

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162. Sex, Risk and Rabbinic Fantasy

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161. Midrash Cinematic Universe

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160. Totally Kafkaesque

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159. Rock the Hagba

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158. Thunderbolt and Lighting

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157. Do Not Covet Your Neighbor's WiFi

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156. Pipe Dream

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155. Temple OS Reveal

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154. Niddah For Trans Women

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153. Russian Doll Finale

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152: Russian Doll 2:6

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151. Russian Doll 2:5

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150. Vacation break

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149. Russian Doll 2:4

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148. Russian Doll 2:3

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147. Mailbag Part Deux

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146. Russian Doll 2:2

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145. Praying East

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144. Venice Pilled

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143. Russian Doll 2:1

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142. Justice: What Is It Anyway?

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141. Dirty Rotten Government

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140. Russian Doll 1:8

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139. Vacation: A Close Bechdel

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138. Vacation: Cucumbers or Honey?

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137. What's the deal with Rabbi Akiva?

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136. Russian Doll 1:7

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135. Dancing, Dogs and Damnation

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134. God is Here: The Place

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133. Russian Doll 1:6

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132. God Is Here: Metaphor and Water

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131a. Russian Doll 1:5

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130a. Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

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129a. Chicken Soup for the Soul

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128a. Russian Doll 1:4

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127a. Russian Doll 1:3

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126a. Tubthumping in the Midrash

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125a. Righteous Dudes

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124a. Russian Doll 1:2

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123a. Calendar Confusion

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122a. Svara Tangent feat. Ada Morse

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121a. Russian Doll 1:1

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120a. Polyamory and Judaism

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119a. A Lizard's Tale Redux

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118a. Baby Courtyard Monks

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117a. What actually is svara though?

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116a. Xava's Sick Day

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115a. The Other

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114a. Impermanence and Heartbreak

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113a. Awarewolf

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112a. The Parent Trap

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111a. Apology Epistemology

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110a. Do animals have souls?

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109a. Secular Conversion

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Daf 108a. Snaking Bad

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107a. Veggie Heaven

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106a. God Hates Flags

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105a. Vacation: Animal Nature

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104a. When is someone ready to convert?

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103a. What does Talmud say about mental health?

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102a. Why would a woman wear a kippah?

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101a. Jewish Liberation Fund

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100a. Everyone's a Diacritic

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99a. What do I do when a friend grows distant?

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98a. Mailbag Episode

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97a. What if I can't be honest with my Rabbi?

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96a. Is Human Flesh ever Kosher?

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95a. Can you be a practicing non-Jew?

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94a. Severing the Emotional Yo-Yo

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93a. Kink and BDSM in Talmud

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92a. How do we deal with problematic yahrzeits?

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91a. Why do the Best Doctors go to Hell?

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90a. What do Jews believe about Hell?

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89a. What about secular-religious collaboration?

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88a. Why is Talmud full of minutiae?

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87a. Is anal sex permitted?

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86a. Who counts as what gender?

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85a. Why do Jewish women cover their hair?

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84a. X-Men with Abraham Riesman

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83a. Hasidism, Part 3: Neo-Hasidism with Lex

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82a. Hasidism, Part 2: Simply the Besht

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81a. Hasidism, Part 1: Jewish Frenemies

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80a. Blessing Bad

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79a. G-d As Bottom Surgeon

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78a. Listener Question: Teshuva Season

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77a. Post-Plague Labor and Ancient Unions

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76a. Sick Day: Never Say Never

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75a. Terms of Employment

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74a. Be Fruity and Multiply

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73a. Listener Question Lightning Round

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72a. Mouse Infused Wine

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71a. Glam Babies

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70a. Vacation: Phoenix-splaining

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69a. Capitalism is a Death Cult

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68a. Two Headed Boy

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67a. Excuses

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66a. Disincorporating into the Mystic

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65a. Art and Talmud: Never Angeline North

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64a. Art and Talmud: Ezra Furman

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63a. Art and Talmud: Nicki Green

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62a. Red Blooded

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61a. Xai, Judaism, How Unbound are You?

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60a. Martyrdom in Jewish Thought

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59a. Kosher Pork

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58a. Advice: A Boiling Pot of Judaism

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57a. Conversion, Inclusivity and the Myth of Progress

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56a. Lost and Found

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55a. Shabbatai, Failed Messiah: Queer Icon

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54a. Shabbatai, Failed Messiah: The Impact

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53a. Shabbatai, Failed Messiah: The History

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52a. Cosmic Accountability

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51. The Tyranny of Structurelessness

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50. Spit Happens feat. Azariah Liron

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49. How do I start studying Talmud?

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48. How do we survive depression?

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47. Apocrypha? In my Talmud?

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46. This is not the Way

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45. Conversion and Shabbat

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44. Rabbi Meir: The Next Generation

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43. Rabbi Meir: Baby Got Back

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42. Rabbi Meir: Wit's End

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41. Eye, eye Captain!

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40. God said no cops!

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39. Week Off Message

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38. Typos

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37. Xai, Halloween Finale: Spookot

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36. Xai, Halloween: Necromancer

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35. Xai, Halloween: Witch

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34. Xai, Halloween: Zombie

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33. Xai, Halloween: Golem

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32. Why God?

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31. The Bad Seed

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30. Gender? In my creation story?

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29. Back in the USSR

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28. Bernie goes to Babylon

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27. Talmudic Trans Girls

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26. Give 'em the finger

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25. Xevruta or Death!

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24. The Affordable Carob Act

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23. Ex Gonna Give it to Yah

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22. Trial Mix

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21. All Chachamim Are Beautiful

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20. Discipline and Punish

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19. Talmud Says ACAB + Solidarity

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18. Talmud and the Absurd Finale

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17. Talmud and the Absurd Pt. 2

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16. Talmud and the Absurd Pt. 1

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15. To be, or not to Rashbi? Pt. 2

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14. To be or not to Rashbi? Pt. 1

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13. Tiny Vessels

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12. Interview with a Sam-pire

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11. What is Talmud?

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10. Adonai Exad?

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9. Gotta get down on Friday

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8.5. Keeping It Platonic

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8. Eighteen Shades of Grey

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7.5. Listener Questions Pesax Edition

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7. Talmudic Socialism Part 3

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6.5. Who cares about the Talmud?

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6. Talmudic Socialism Part 2

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5. Talmudic Socialism Part 1

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4. Polyamorous Purim

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3. Esther is a Sexy Chameleon

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2. Ugly Torah Scholars

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1. The Talmud is Gay

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