Join husband Travis McElroy and wife Teresa McElroy every Friday and they'll improve your etiquette week by week! Perplexed by thank you notes? Baffled by black tie? Dismayed by dinner parties? Worry no more, Shmanners has your answers!
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Bringing you recent lectures, classes, and programs from the Hadar Institute, Ta Shma is where you get to listen in on the beit midrash. Come and listen on the go, at home, or wherever you are. Hosted by Rabbi Avi Killip of the Hadar Institute.
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Smack talk is a podcast about just funny stuff weather it be a story or a conversation Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bubbatx12/support
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Listen now to one of our informative and inspiring SHMA Talks. Each episode covers a different issue or thought leadership topic aimed to motivate, engage and inspire the leaders of today and tomorrow. Taking the form of interviews, conversations, panel discussions, live Q&As and debates, you can hear from national and local disruptors, industry experts, entertaining and motivational speakers, as well as Shakespeare Martineau leaders and rising stars.
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Lee loves Batman. Sam is indifferent. Lee plans to change that by forcing all things Batman down Sam’s throat… but not like that.
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Two anime lovers hold their skeptical friend's hand through a list of new and classic anime titles. Tune in weekly to watch the fibers of their friendship be pushed to their limits... and beyond.
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Belief is core to the religious experience yet many don't quite believe with conviction or don't know what it means to say that they do. In this session, we'll turn to the Torah of Rebbe Nachman as well as a modern midrash by Rivka Lubitch to unpack what's at the center of belief. What do we mean when we say that we believe, who gets to call themse…
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history and etiquette of going to COLLEGE! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!Por Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of Marie Antoinette's personal village-retreat, Hameau de la Reine, the HAMLET OF THE QUEEN! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!Por Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Of all the anthropomorphic images used to describe God in the Torah, one of the most richly developed is “the hand of God.” The image appears for the first time in the Book of Exodus, and then is reworked and nuanced in various ways throughout the rest of that book. Here in the Book of Deuteronomy, in Parashat Eikev, Moshe will draw on several of t…
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In this session, we will look at one of the most controversial - and censored - prayers in our tradition: Aleinu. How are we meant to understand the lines in these prayers? Who are the enemies and how might we relate to those concepts today? Who censored the prayers - and how? This class will explore all these questions through various textual trad…
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of the single-family household and the etiquette of moving back in with your PARENTS as an adult! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!Por Travis & Teresa McElroy
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The opening of Parashat Va’Ethanan can serve both as a warning to us all, not to seek more power or privilege than is our due—but also as a reminder to honor our life’s accomplishments, and even to acknowledge, every one of us, our own greatness.Por Hadar Institute
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Beresheit Rabbah (3:7) teaches that God created and destroyed many worlds before finally allowing this world, our world, to stand. This midrash is teaching us three things. First, destruction and loss are a part of the fabric of our very existence. There is no avoiding it; there is only wrestling and reconciling and accepting it. Second, the midras…
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the being a RANGER at a NATIONAL PARK! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!Por Travis & Teresa McElroy
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As we head into the Book of Deuteronomy, we will quickly notice that something has changed. The style of narration is different than we have seen in the Torah so far. This book will consist mostly of Moshe’s own words. The first five verses set the stage for Moshe’s great final oratory. What follows for the next 33 chapters is Moshe retelling the s…
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The Talmud Yerushalmi tells a distressing and perplexing tale about a cowherd who goes off in search of the newborn baby messiah on the day the Temple was destroyed. We will read this story, with its enigmatic ending, and try to understand what its authors are trying to tell us about how we should respond in the face of destruction. Recorded on Tis…
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history and etiquette of NATIONAL PARKS! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!Por Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Moshe has an anger problem. He is usually able to keep it under control. By nature, he is a quiet man, a brooder. He carries out his duties faithfully—as both a mouthpiece of God and a defender of the people. But the tension between these two roles pulls at him constantly, keeps him agitated. Sometimes the pressure gets too high… and he explodes.…
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Since October 7, the word "Amalek" has often been invoked in regard to the Israel-Hames War. Is that an appropriate analogy? By looking at ancient responses to biblical verses about Amalek, including those that express discomfort, we can learn these verses anew, revisit the foundational ideas that underlie the verses, and shed light on present real…
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of MASCULINE FASHION and the revolution around it in the 18th century! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!Por Travis & Teresa McElroy
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For my mother’s 75th birthday, we surprised her by taking her to visit her mother’s childhood home. I knew my grandmother had grown up in Los Angeles, but I didn’t know exactly where, and there were no living relatives whom I could ask. So I did what anyone seeking information does these days: I Googled my grandmother’s name, hoping something would…
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Tomorrow, we arrive at the second of the four annual fasts commemorating the destruction of the Temple. According to the Mishnah (Ta’anit 4:6), 17 Tammuz marks the end of the offering of the tamid, the daily sacrifice, as well as the breaching of the city walls. Until this point, despite the siege, the routine of Temple life had continued with the …
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Hello Internet! This week's episode is an ASK SHMANNERS full of your questions about backhanded compliments, leaving parties, and more! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!Por Travis & Teresa McElroy
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Balak, King of Moab, has been made uneasy by Israel’s recent string of victories over enemy nations, and has begun to worry that he will be the next to fall before them. He decides to seek the advantage with a preemptive strike, hoping to weaken the Israelite forces before they have a chance to advance against him. His first plan of attack, however…
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R. Ethan Tucker: The Multivocality of Halakhah
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Halakhic works are often a dizzying compendium of multiple perspectives on a given issue, often making it difficult to determine how to behave in a given situation. In this lecture, R. Ethan Tucker argues this is a feature rather than a bug. Critical values that are meant to guide our lives are rarely fully manifest in any given time, place, or sit…
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about MOLLY PITCHER, the legendary Revolutionary War figure! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!Por Travis & Teresa McElroy
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There is probably no more playful instance of wordplay in all the Torah than the nehash nehoshet, the copper snake described in Parashat Hukkat. With its string of repeated consonants, it sounds like it could be another of Dr Seuss’ whimsical creations, living in the same strange zoo with “the Cat in the Hat,” “Yertle the Turtle,” and “the Fox in S…
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Rav Dena explores a Hassidic teaching from the Me'or Einayim which discusses a dimension of physicality that we rarely pay attention to: given that taste is not necessary to sustain us, why is food delicious? More perplexingly, why does some food taste good to some, but not to others? What is the relationship between what is physically nutritious a…
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Hello internet! This week's episode is all about the history of the DOWRY! Enjoy and be sure to share with a friend!Por Travis & Teresa McElroy
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From the very beginning of Parashat Korah, the Torah places unusually strong emphasis on his lineage. He is introduced not just with the standard patronym, but with three generations of ancestors, tracing him back to the tribal founder, Levi. A midrash in Bemidbar Rabbah picks up on this extended chain of forebears and suggests that it is there to …
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