J.J. and Dr. Shira Billet make sense of this notable Jewish idealist. Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to get into spats with other listeners about (Neo-)Kantian epistemology and ethics. Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at podcasts@torahinmotion.org For more in…

The Yeshiva in Volozhin (As Opposed to Volozhin Yeshiva): It's Reopening in 1899. Description of How it Functioned and of the Individuals Who Taught and Studied There. Their Accomplishments After Leaving the Yeshiva. - Oct 7, 2024 - Baruch ha-Levi Epstein: Author of Torah Temimah and Mekor Barukh. How he related to his aunt. The sometimes eccentric…

History of Eastern European Yeshivot - September 30 - Sep 30, 2024 - R' Froman. Torah & secular education: Not under one roof. Revel: COD. Cincinnati Torah dedication responsum of Netziv. Synthesis vs. harmonious coexistence. Colleges in Brooklyn. Book by Yosef Mendelevitch. Deaths of both Netziv & R' Chaim Berlin in Warsaw. Their matzeivot. Halakh…

R' Menashe Klein: Teach Torah Only in Hebrew (Mishneh Halachot 13:161). Alternate Opinion: Using Other Languages is Very Important. R' Bronspigel. Chabad. Zionism and Hebrew. Conversions. Converting a Minor. An Evaluation of R' Shlomo Carlebach. - Sep 29, 2024 - R' Israel Rivkin. Why the Rav used the word "bitterly" about pressure on him to America…

Por Rakeffet-Rothkoff, Rabbi Dr. Aaron

J.J. and Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal meditate on Talmudic responses to Christianity. Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to get into arguments with other listeners about Monks, The Talmud, and Kabbalah. Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at podcasts@torahinmotion.or…

Volozhin Yeshiva: What Led to the Closing of the Yeshiva on February 2, 1892. The Attitude Toward Secular Education in Volozhin Compared to YU. How the Opening of the Russian Secret Police Archive Changed What We Thought. - Sep 16, 2024 - R' Avraham David Cohen. Ben Gurion sent soldiers on deadly mission into Syria: The consequences. Comparison of …

Ransom for Hostages. Charedim in IDF. Mishneh Halakhot by R’ Menashe Klein – Volume 13 Sections 150–168. Translations of Torah Texts Are To Be Avoided. Sources of This View Are Rambam, R’ Shach, Chatam Sofer, Ohr Somayach. Update on R’ Belkin Book. - Sep 15, 2024 - Danger of excessive ransom payments for hostages. Are women required to make havdala…

J.J. and Dr. Yosef Bronstein resurrect some of the most fascinating ideas that animated the thought of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the 7th Lubavitcher Rebbe. This is part three of our mini-series on the intellectual history of Chabad Hasidut. Thank you to Rabbi Gary Huber for sponsoring this mini-series! If you would like to support us direct…

Volozhin Yeshiva: Its Final Years. The Great Machloket. What Led to Closing of the Yeshiva on February 2, 1892 - Sep 9, 2024 - History & overview of this class from 1980 to the present. Volozhin in early 1850s. R' Yitzchak, son of founder R' Chaim Volozhiner died. His joint successors: Netziv & R' Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik (Beit Halevi). 1851-3…

Is Teaching Torah in Hebrew or Yiddish Preferable to English? Mishneh Halachot 13: 150-163. The Lesson Learned From Moshe Rabbenu's Trumpets. Relating to, Evaluating, and Appreciating the IDF of Today, NOT of Decades Ago from a Torah Perspective. - Sep 8, 2024 - Yakir Taitelbaum, hy"d. ArtScroll: pros & cons. In what language should Torah be taught…

J.J. and Dr. Reuven Leigh finally bring Chabad into the 20th century! They inspect the life and thought of the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe–Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn. This is part two of our mini-series on the intellectual history of Chabad Hasidut. Thank you to Rabbi Gary Huber for sponsoring this mini-series! If you would like to support us dire…

J.J. and Dr. Eli Rubin revel in the traditional and rebellious thought of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, author of The Tanya, and first Rebbe of the Chabad Hasidic sect. Thank you to Rabbi Gary Huber for sponsoring this mini-series! If you would like to support us directly please shoot us an email or visit torahinmotion.org/donate Follow us on Twitt…

J.J. and Dr. Yair Furstenberg contextualize the ethical teachings of the Tannaim. Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to get into arguments with other listeners about Seneca and Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai. Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at podcasts@torahinmotion.…

J.J. and Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel comment on the happenings in Medieval Ashkenaz and add their spin on to the era of the Tosafists. Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to get into arguments with other listeners about Rabbeinu Tam or the Rash MiSchantz. Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complai…

J.J. and Dr. Aaron Segal freely choose to wade through the murky medieval and contemporary debates over the existence of free will. Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to get into public arguments about Crescas and Spinoza. Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at podc…

J.J. and Dr. Jacob Howland round up a storm of fascinating comparisons between Talmudic and Platonic methods of discourse. Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at podcasts@torahinmotion.org For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Jacob Howland is Provost and D…

J.J. and Dr. David Myers scientifically examine the thought and legacy of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement. Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at podcasts@torahinmotion.org For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts David N. Myers is Distinguished Profes…

J.J. and Dr. Shai Secunda set Talmudic discourse ablaze. They put the Talmud in its Zoroastrian and Sasanian context, and have bloody good discussion about how Judaism interacted with its socio-religious environment in the first few centuries of the Common Era. Don't forget to rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! Please s…

J.J. and Dr. Joanna Weinberg make their way back to sunny 15th century Italy and the surrounding centuries to visit some of the more interesting Jewish characters of the Italian Renaissance. They weave their way through cross-cultural influences and intra-cultural tensions during this remarkable era of rebirth. Don't forget to rate and review the t…

Volozhin Yeshiva. Haskalah Publications. Not all Volozhin Students Were on the Same Level. Bialik in the Yeshiva. How He Lived in Two Worlds. Bialik's Oneg Shabbat & Poetry. Shutting Down Roads is Not Acceptable. The Rav on Matan Torah. - Jun 10, 2024 - Chasidus Meets America by Ora Wiskind. Students in Volozhin: Maskilim vs 'tzadikim.' Tolerance o…

R' Menashe Klein: Mishneh Halakhot 13:150: How to Bring Tinokot Shenishbu Closer to Torah and Mitzvot. Rambam's Methodology and R' Menashe's. Importance of Hebrew. - Jun 9, 2024 - Percentages of Jewish communities that are Ba'alei Teshuva around the world. One must destroy & then create a new world. This is risky. Role of psychology in Mussar. Mish…

J.J. and Dr. Martin Goodman go antiquing! They discuss the most important Jewish historian of the Roman period–Josephus Flavius. What did he write? Who was he writing for? And what ideological framework motivated his histories? Please send any complaints or compliments to podcasts@torahinmotion.org For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podca…

J.J. and Dr. Susannah Heschel survey the fascinating life and brilliant ideas of Abraham Geiger. This guy was flagrantly influential. A practicing rabbi, a leader in the Wissenschaft das Judentums movement and a founder of Islamic studies in Europe, he was on the intellectual vanguard of the 19th century Reform movement, so strap in for a great con…

J.J. and Dr. Daniel Schwartz examine the convoluted legacy and enduring relevance of Spinoza. Our first mini-series!! Welcome to the second episode of our three-parter covering friend of the pod, Benedict "Barukh" Spinoza. Please send any complaints or compliments to podcasts@torahinmotion.org For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts D…

J.J. and Dr. Yitzhak Melamed untangle Spinoza's famed Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and assess the religiosity of its author, a supposed atheist. Our first mini-series!! Welcome to the second episode of our three-parter covering friend of the pod, Benedict "Barukh" Spinoza. Please send any complaints or compliments to podcasts@torahinmotion.org Fo…

Dr. Rebecca Goldstein and J.J. communicate the story of Spinoza's herem and outline the radicalism of his Ethics. Our first mini-series!! Welcome to the first episode of our three-parter covering friend of the pod, Benedict "Barukh" Spinoza. Please send any complaints or compliments to podcasts@torahinmotion.org For more information visit torahinmo…

J.J. and Dr. Eric Lawee comment on Rashi's astounding career, and refuse to gloss over his contentious journey to join the Jewish canon. Please send any complaints or compliments to podcasts@torahinmotion.org For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Eric Lawee is a professor in the Department of Bible at Bar-Ilan University, where he t…

J.J. and Dr. Menachem Fisch decided that this is the time for studying the philosophy of the book of Qohelet, and they don't study it in vain. Please send any complaints or compliments to podcasts@torahinmotion.org For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Menachem Fisch is the Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor Emeritus of History and Phi…

J.J. and Dr. Maren Niehoff comment on Philo's ideas and attempt to weave him back into the fabric of Jewish history. Send any complaints or compliments to podcasts@torahinmotion.org For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Before joining the Dept. of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Maren R. Niehoff was a Junior Fe…

J.J. and Dr. Neil Rogachevsky skip down the winding (theoretical) road towards Israeli independence, and tell the story of the drafting of Ben Gurion's declaration of independence. Send any complaints or compliments to podcasts@torahinmotion.org For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Neil Rogachevsky is assistant professor and associ…

J.J. and Dr. Jonathan Garb march down the various paths of the Ram"chal's thought, and straighten out some mysteries of his life, thought, and reception. Send any complaints or compliments to podcasts@torahinmotion.org For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Jonathan Garb is the Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah in the Department …

J.J. and Dr. Jeremy Brown circulate some of the Jewish responses to Copernicus. Jeremy Brown is the author of New Heavens and a New Earth; The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought (Oxford University Press 2013) and Influenza; The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History (Simon and Schuster 2018). He is an emergency physician and…

J.J. and Dr. Christoph Schulte contract a serious case of mystical curiousity, and diminish the mysteries around the idea of Tzimtzum. Prof. Dr. Christoph Schulte is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam since 2001 and for many years head of the Department of Jewish and Religious Studies. He studied Philosophy, Jew…

J.J. and Dr. Sam Lebens prove God?! (Or at least, they discuss the history of some Jewish arguments for God.) Samuel Lebens is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Haifa. He works in a wide array of philosophical fields including metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of fiction, and most centrally, the philosophy of religion. …

J.J. and Dr. Leora Batnitzky look for hidden truths in Strauss' thought. Dr. Leora Batnitzky is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish studies and professor of religion at Princeton University. She is the author of Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation and Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Fran…

J.J. and Dr. Daniel Matt become wiser and gain understanding while discussing the Kabbalistic ideas of The Zohar . Daniel Matt is a prominent scholar of Kabbalah and the Zohar. He has been featured in Time and Newsweek and on National Public Radio. His books include The Essential Kabbalah (translated into eight languages), Zohar: Annotated and Expl…

J.J. and Dr. Tamar Rudavsky trace the responses to Maimonides among Medieval Jewish Philosophers. T.M. Rudavsky is Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University. She specializes in medieval Jewish philosophy and has edited three volumes: Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence in Medieval Philosophy: Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Perspectives(19…

Thoughts on the Parashah is a series of shortform remarks on the weekly Torah portion, presented by a range of speakers. This episode was originally recorded on 11/27/2012Por Drisha Institute

Thoughts on the Parashah is a series of shortform remarks on the weekly Torah portion, presented by a range of speakers. This episode was originally recorded on 09/27/2012Por Drisha Institute

Thoughts on the Parashah is a series of shortform remarks on the weekly Torah portion, presented by a range of speakers. This episode was originally recorded on 04/24/2012.Por Drisha Institute

Thoughts on the Parashah is a series of shortform remarks on the weekly Torah portion, presented by a range of speakers. This episode was originally recorded on 03/20/2012Por Drisha Institute

Thoughts on the Parashah is a series of shortform remarks on the weekly Torah portion, presented by a range of speakers.Por Drisha Institute

Thoughts on the Parashah is a series of shortform remarks on the weekly Torah portion, presented by a range of speakers. This episode was originally recorded on 02/14/2012Por Drisha Institute

Thoughts on the Parashah is a series of shortform remarks on the weekly Torah portion, presented by a range of speakers. This episode was originally recorded on 01/24/2012Por Drisha Institute

Thoughts on the Parashah is a series of shortform remarks on the weekly Torah portion, presented by a range of speakers.Por Drisha Institute

Thoughts on the Parashah is a series of shortform remarks on the weekly Torah portion, presented by a range of speakers. This episode was originally recorded on 12/08/2011Por Drisha Institute

Thoughts on the Parashah is a series of shortform remarks on the weekly Torah portion, presented by a range of speakers. This episode was originally recorded on 11/28/2011Por Drisha Institute

Thoughts on the Parashah is a series of shortform remarks on the weekly Torah portion, presented by a range of speakers. This episode was originally recorded on 11/02/2011.Por Drisha Institute

J.J. and Dr. Michah Gottlieb shed light on the origins of the Haskalah in Berlin, and examine Mendelssohn's role in it. Michah Gottlieb is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at NYU. An expert on the German Haskalah and its reverberations, he has authored several books and dozens of articles. His bo…