Beste Shma podcasts (2024)

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Bereishit: Home, Exile, and How to Wander Together 8:56

5d ago8:56

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Human beings don’t have to be told that we are living outside of paradise. It’s not just the fact that the world is not perfect: it’s that deep inside many of us, we feel a longing for a place that might be. Within each of us there is a longing for a home we have never fully found. Midrashically, this human experience of exile begins almost immedia…

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Rending of Garments 40:42

3d ago40:42

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Do you want to hear a cool story about YHVH? Listen to this.Door The Messianic Jewish Moment

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Simhat Torah: Joy and Trembling 9:28

6d ago9:28

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We tend to think of Shemini Atzeret and Simhat Torah, which conclude the somber and at times terrifying High Holiday season, as a time of tremendous joy. This year, on the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ brutal attack and the terrible war that followed, the exultation we associate with these days will be impossibly incongruous with how many of us wi…

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Tabernacles 59:32

10d ago59:32

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Sukkot has begun, are you doing it correctly? You might be surprised.Door The Messianic Jewish moment

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R. David Kasher on Parashat VeZot HaBerakhah: A Shared Inheritance 10:06

13d ago10:06

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The first verse in the Torah I ever learned by heart comes from its final parashah. When my brother and I would go visit our father in New York for the summer, he would try to figure out things for us to do during the day, and one year—I must have been about ten or eleven—he sent us to this Chabad day camp for a week. We were not observant during t…

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Modern Babylon 1:09:17

17d ago1:09:17

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Babylon is among us, and billions of people participate in it, and all of them think that it is righteous, and holy. Are YOU one of them?Door The Messianic Jewish Moment

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R. Shai Held: The God of the Hebrew Bible is a God of Love 50:37

18d ago50:37

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It is one of the last acceptable prejudices in American culture: the God of the "Old Testament" is a God of vengeance, focused on strict justice rather than mercy, given to anger rather than love. This perception is as mistaken as it is widespread. In this lecture, we'll encounter a series of biblical texts that make the stunning claim that what ma…

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Whether Or Not I Live There 3:14

20d ago3:14

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Whether Or Not I Live There by Rabbi Scott Hausman-WeissDoor Rabbi Scott Hausman-Weiss

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R. Avi Strausberg: Midrashim of Destruction 37:48

20d ago37:48

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In its time, the destruction of the Temple, habayit (the house), brought with it tremendous violence, loss and suffering. In this session, we'll turn to new midrashim written post-October 7th by Dr. Nurit Hirschfeld-Skupinsky, a professor of Midrash in Israel. In these midrashim she understands the destruction of one kind of bayit, the Temple, as a…

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What About AFTER the Flood? 1:09:26

24d ago1:09:26

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Okay, so people are accepting the fact that we all didn't come from incest before the flood, but What About AFTER the Flood?Door The Messianic Jewish Moment

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R. David Kasher on Parashat Ha'azinu: The Poetry of Torah, Part 2 11:08

25d ago11:08

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Last week, we discussed the significance of the poem that God tells Moshe to write down in Parashat VaYelekh, "Now, write for yourselves this poem and teach it to the Children of Israel" (Deuteronomy 31:19). Most of the classic Medieval commentators (Rashi, Ramban, Rabbeinu Behaye, Abarbanel, and others) understand “this” to be a reference to the p…

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R. David Kasher on Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelekh: The Poetry of Torah, Part 1 7:40

1M ago7:40

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In Parashat Nitzavim Moshe’s grand oratory comes to a close, and in Parashat VaYelekh he turns to the process of writing the Torah down. The parashah records two distinct acts of writing, in two very different styles: a book and a poem.Door Hadar Institute

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ORIGINS 43:39

1M ago43:39

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We all were taught in our bible school, Sunday school, bible study, and everywhere else, that we all came from Adam and eve. If that is so, then is incest, okay? Scripture says different.Door The Messianic Jewish Moment

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R. Shai Held: Teshuvah and Transformation Part 2 45:22

1M ago45:22

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To prepare ourselves for the approaching Days of Awe, we'll engage in two sets of reflections. In this second part, we'll consider some of the very different ways that Rabbis Abraham Isaac Kook and Joseph Solveitchik conceptualize teshuvah and ask whether and how they can each challenge us to grow as Jews and as human beings. Recorded on Hadar's Vi…

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R. David Kasher on Parashat Ki Tavo: Wellsprings of Torah 7:32

1M ago7:32

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In Parashat Ki Tavo, Moshe and the elders of Israel command the people, on the day they arrive into Land, to set up twelve large stones, and “to write on them all the words of this Torah” (Deuteronomy 27:3). Moshe then repeats this charge a few verses later, but this time adds extra emphasis with an unusual verb.…

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Perfect Blood 1:06:30

1M ago1:06:30

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Yom Kippur is fast approaching, and we need to be mentally prepared for what we are about to face.Door The Messianic jewish Moment

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R. Shai Held: Teshuvah and Transformation Part 1 36:06

1M ago36:06

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To prepare ourselves for the approaching Days of Awe, we'll engage in two sets of reflections. In this first part, we'll explore some key passages on teshuvah from Maimonides', paying special attention to how he creatively reads Talmudic sources to make the spiritual-ethical-educational points he thinks are important for us. Recorded on Hadar's Vir…

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Hey CSK! Take a Chance on Us! 2:49

1M ago2:49

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CSK's High Holy Days are open to all! Join us!Door Rabbi Scott Hausman-Weiss

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After Death 54:05

2M ago54:05

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What happens after death? Are there any answers in the bible that can address what Sh'ol is?Door The Messianic Jewish moment

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Ein Yaakov - uniting Moshiach Ben Yosef and Moshiach Ben David [L'kavod the yortzeit of Rav Tzadok HaCohen of Lublin zy"a] 48:35

2M ago48:35

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Harav Yussie Zakutinsky ShlitaDoor K'hal Mevakshei Hashem KMH

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R. David Kasher on Parashat Ki Teitzei: A Life in Pieces 14:48

2M ago14:48

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The rules of inheritance are just another law in Deuteronomy’s massive catalog of laws, but something in the way it’s written sounds like a fragment from some lost legend. It somehow breaks the heart to hear them. A hated wife, in the shadow of a beloved one. A husband’s unfair disregard. And the poor child who was innocently born into disfavor. It…

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R. Aviva Richman: The Power and Limits of Radical Hesed 47:31

2M ago47:31

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What does it mean to think of hesed as the bedrock of Jewish practice? Rav Aviva explores this question through an essay by Rav Yitzhak Hutner, the author of Pahad Yitzhak, in which he argues that the most foundational attribute of the world is Hesed. Recorded at the Manger Winter Learning Seminar 2024. Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.amazonaw…

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Open To All 2:41

2M ago2:41

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Join us, you already belong.Door Rabbi Scott Hausman-Weiss

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TRUE PROTECTION 53:32

2M ago53:32

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I had an awesome experience with an angel the other day, and it inspired this message about protection.Door The Messianic Jewish Moment

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R. Avi Strausberg on Rosh Chodesh Elul: What Does Torah Offer Us This Year? 9:38

2M ago9:38

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Back in Elul of 2023, when I began this year of writing Divrei Torah for the holidays, we didn’t know what devastation lay ahead. In retrospect, each of the Divrei Torah I’ve written this year can be read in light of the events of October 7th. Each holiday celebrated, every encounter with Torah is refracted through the lens of the last eleven month…

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Lustful Decisions 50:53

2M ago50:53

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Everything unnatural is a choice, some unnatural choices are harmless, and others are very dangerous.Door The Messianic Jewish Moment

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Watch Yourself Fly 4:15

2M ago4:15

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High Holy Days with CSK 2024Who? Rabbi Scott Hausman-Weiss, Rabbi Laura Sheinkopf, Hannah Madeleine Goodman (soloist), Tiffany Halfon (Program and Operations Manager), Andrew Lienhard (pianist), Kelly Dean (woodwinds), Daphnee Johnson (cello), Darrell Lacy (bass and guitar), and Leo Hernandez (trumpet and shofar).What? The Jewish way into community…

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Dinosaurs 1:13:03

2M ago1:13:03

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We all were force fed darwinism, and we all were deceived by it! Scripture never lies, PEOPLE DO!Door The Messianic Jewish Moment

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R. David Kasher on Parashat Eikev: The Hand of God 10:10

2M ago10:10

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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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R. Elie Kaunfer: Praying Against Our Enemies in the Aleinu 50:42

2M ago50:42

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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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R. David Kasher on Parashat Va'Etchanan: Seeking Acceptance 9:48

2M ago9:48

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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.Door Hadar Institute

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BIG Secret 58:40

2M ago58:40

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The darwinists are keeping a BIG Secret from us, and it is about time that it is revealed.Door The Messianic Jewish Moment

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R. Avi Strausberg on Tisha B'Av: “Let it Not Totter and Fall” 11:06

3M ago11:06

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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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