Parshah Rabbit Hole

In this special edition of the Parshah Rabbit Hole, presented live at Chabad of West Hartford, CT, we dig into the background of a mysterious side character who is mentioned only twice in the Torah. Source Sheet: http://www.sefaria.org/sheets/609057

This Rabbit Hole starts with a verse about the sea and ends up in outer space. Source Sheet:https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/593356?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole starts with baskets and eventually gets to the cycle of poverty, shiva platters and arts and crafts. Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/591495

This Rabbit Hole starts with exploring how animals think and eventually gets to peripheral vision and neurodiversity. Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/589661?lang=en

This week's Rabbit Hole explores the role of police in Judaism, and eventually gets to cantors. To sponsor an episode or make a small recurring donation go to: https://www.creativejudaism.com/donate Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/587856?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole explores a strange connection between Tefillin and comic books.

This week's Rabbit Hole explores the prayer of a thief, useless prayer and then somehow gremlins. To sponsor an episode or make a small recurring donation go to: https://www.creativejudaism.com/donate Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/583538?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit starts with bees and buzzes it's way to dream interpretation and the mystical significance of beekeeping. To sponsor an episode or make a small recurring donation go to: https://www.creativejudaism.com/donate Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/581694?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole starts with a flying sorcerer and follows the trail of aeronautics in Torah. Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/578829... Dedicate and episode: https://www.creativejudaism.com/donate

This week's Rabbit hole starts with Og, a giant mentioned in this week's Torah portion, and explores what happens to measurements when we're talking about giants. Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/577169... To dedicate an episode and help me keep on digging go to: https://www.creativejudaism.com/donate

This week's Rabbit Hole is about actually about a hole. In the earth. That swallowed some guys. Source Sheet Link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/576718?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit hole starts with a mention of giant grapes in the Parshah, and eventually makes its way to record setting watermelons. This week's episode is dedicated by: https://chassiduswiki.com/ Source Sheet Link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/575444?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit hole explores a pair of trumpets that belonged to Moses. Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/574201?lang=en

This week's Rabbit hole splits into four different directions, each one exploring a different weird idea in the Torah Portion. Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/571991?lang=bi Here's links for each of the awesome guests in this week's episode... Hershey Sufrin: http://sufrin.tv Yisroel Arye Gootblatt: https://youtube.com/@yisroelarye2088?si=kk83tJe0yLiGLRNY http://YisroelArye.com Mendy Korer:https://youtube.com/@chabad-islington?si=5m71mM4KElRUwEpP https://www.jewishislington.co.uk/ Shais Taub:https://www.youtube.com/@SoulWords https://www.soulwords.org/

This week's Rabbit Hole starts with flags and eventually gets to dragons and Disney World. Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/569867?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole explores a verse with some mismatched Ratios, and eventually gets to nuclear physics. Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/568129?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit hole explores the punishment of bullies in the afterlife and the ethical treatment of supernatural bears. Sponsor an upcoming episode or make a small recurring donation: https://www.creativejudaism.com/donate Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/566808?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole explores how certain Jewish laws apply to supernatural beings. To sign up for the DIY Rabbit Hole Course go to: https://www.creativejudaism.com/diy Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/565190?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole follows the trail of a monster whose bones are used for necromancy. DIY Rabbit Hole Course: https://www.creativejudaism.com/diy Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/563553?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole follows a cryptic clue in a commentary that leads us into the a realm of weirdness.Source Sheet:https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/562161?lang=en

This week's Rabbit hole explores a strange ritual involving ear, thumbs and toes, and eventually gets to the Talmudic origins is of a famous trope. To sponsor an episode of the Parshah Rabbit Hole go to: https://www.CreativeJudaism.com/donate Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/558428?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole starts with sources in the Talmud that talk about what a fetus does to keep busy in the womb, and eventually gets to reincarnation. To sponsor an episode of the Parshah Rabbit Hole go to: https://www.CreativeJudaism.com/donate Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/557837?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole explores a bizarre fish mentioned in the Talmud whose brains taste like pig. HillulaStatus: https://api.whatsapp.com/send/?phone=17323288365&text=Subscribe Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/556033?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole starts with the Thanks Offering - the sacrifice brought after surviving a life-threatening experience and eventually gets to ancient mariners, arrogance and the definition of delinquency. Sponsor an upcoming episode or make a small recurring donation: https://www.creativejudaism.com/donate Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/554811?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit hole explores a possible reference to radio waves in the Talmud and eventually gets to gremlins! Purim Technical Support Hotline: 1-812-577-8746 History of telephone broadcasts of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's talks: https://videos.jem.tv/video-player?clip=884 source sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/553628?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole is all about colors and explores a midrash that says that Queen Esther was green, as well as an internet myth that ancient humans couldn't see the color blue. Sponsor an upcoming episode or make a small recurring donation: https://www.creativejudaism.com/donate Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/551117?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole starts with Betzalel - the artist appointed by G-d to build the ark and the mishkan (portable temple), and eventurally gets to Golems and telepathy. Sponsor an upcoming episode or make a small recurring donation: https://www.creativejudaism.com/donate Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/549310?lang=bi

Does G-d have a face? How do you spot a Heretic? Can you get kicked out of Heaven? All of these questions are stops along the way down this Rabbit Hole. Sponsor an upcoming episode or make a small recurring donation: https://www.creativejudaism.com/donate Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/547841?lang=bi

This Rabbit Hole explores the Urim V'Tumim - mysterious elements of the breastplate used in the Temple which could tell the future. To sponsor an episode or make a small recurring donation go to: https://www.creativejudaism.com/donate Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/546154?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit follows the trail of a mysterious extra Torah Portion than shows up in some sources and eventually gets us to bubble machines and chickpeas. To sponsor an episode of the Parshah Rabbit Hole go to: https://www.CreativeJudaism.com/donate Source Sheet Link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/544761?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole begins with a peculiar wording for categories of civil laws, and eventually leads to the differences between mothers and fathers. Source Sheet Link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/542995?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Starts with a bizarre deal Moses made with his father-in-law, Jethro and takes us to contractual loopholes and educational philosophy. Source Sheet Link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/541385?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit hole starts with the Song sung by Moses and the Jewish People after the splitting of the sea, and then winds its way through the topics of music, masonry, feeding birds, Walt Disney and the Sherman Brothers- Robert and Richard Sherman. Source Sheet Link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/539318?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit hole starts with a verse that says that dogs didn't bark at the Israelites in Egypt, and follows the trail to cats, mice and philosophy. Source Sheet Link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/538072?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole is a Crocodile Hole, and it turns out that there could be a lot more crocodiles in Torah than you think. Source Sheet Link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/536360?lang=bi

Our starting point in this week's Rabbit Hole is the Staff of Moses, which eventually leads us to medieval British legends and the real answer to the question "who knows 4?" Source Sheet Link:https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/534611?lang=bi

This Rabbit hole starts with a quest to find information about a pair of lions that appear on the title page of the Talmud, but eventually gets to psychology and false messiahs. Source Sheet Link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/533696?lang=bi

Is pepper a spice? Is learning carpentry better than learning Toroh? Is spring break the root of all evil? All of these topics are explored on our way down this week's Parshah Rabbit Hole. Source sheet link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/532389?lang=bi

This week's Rabbit Hole explores dreams - specifically, is there any truth in them and if so, how much? Source Sheet link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/531477?lang=bi

We start with an obscure side-character mentioned in the Parshah and follow the path to 19th century British parliament and the dangers of immortality. Chanukah Booklet link: https://www.creativejudaism.com/dreidel Source Sheet link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/529841

Our journey this week starts with some tiny jars, winds around through Midrashic manipulation of the Hebrew letters and eventually gets us to Chanukah. Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/527813

This week we get some expert advice from Rabbi Shais Taub, who tells us to look into Mandrakes, which leads us to all sorts of magical plants. Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/523818

This week's Rabbit hole starts with a smell, passes through the Garden of Eden and eventually finds its way to bodily functions. Source Sheet Link: www.sefaria.org/sheets/524775

This week's Rabbit Hole begins with an exploration of nose rings which somehow leads to Groundhog Day and reincarnation. Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/523002 (Follow along or print it out for your Shabbos table)

This week's rabbit hole is all about angels, and apparently, they're a lot closer to home than you might think. We'll follow all the cookie crumbs (or whatever angels eat) to figure out all the details about your angel entourage. Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/521003 (Follow along or print it out for your Shabbos table)

Did you know that G-d blessed Abraham with a commemorative coin? That's where this week's rabbit hole starts and leads us to nautical history, worm related miracles and the fascinating story of Rabbi Elazar of Amsterdam as transmitted by the Belzer chasidic dynasty. Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/519207 (Follow along or print it out for your Shabbos table)

This week's rabbit hole begins with a Midrash that says the sun, moon and stars didn't work during the flood, and leads to teleportation and the circadian rhythm of roosters. Source Sheet Link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/516110... (follow along, or print it out for your Shabbos table)

Welcome to the first episode of "The Parshah Rabbit Hole" where your host Dovid Taub takes you on an adventure through the weekly Torah portion. This week's rabbit hole starts with some funny sounding names and eventually leads to the birth of capitalism, ancient musical instruments, and the gremlin king. Source sheet link: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/515525... (follow along, or print it out for your Shabbos table)