Shabbat Unbound Podcast

Each prayer its own world. With its own Torah to teach us. Most Friday night services move through fifteen prayers in one sitting. Shabbat Unbound asks a different question: what if we took just one prayer and really stayed with it? Over eight episodes, we give one prayer our full, undivided attention. Its history. Its language. Its music. The arguments it has sparked, the comfort it has given, and the questions it refuses to resolve. One prayer. All the way in. No rushing. No catalogue. A singular prayer, explored from every direction. Song: We listen to how the prayer sounds — its melodies, its variations, the way different communities have sung it across centuries and continents. Study: We open the words themselves — unpacking the Hebrew, the layers of meaning, the rabbinic debates and the poets who shaped every syllable. Story:  We bring each prayer to life through the people who wrote it, prayed it, and found themselves changed by it. Eight Prayers. Eight Worlds. One episode drops the fourth Friday of every month. Start anywhere or start from the beginning.