Rabbi Rowe Reacts

Three years ago, on Simchat Torah, the day Jews around the world dance with the Torah, came one of the darkest days in Jewish history. But it wasn't the first time darkness came to the Jewish people on this festival. Rabbi Daniel Rowe tells stories from the Holocaust: a barber in Kraków forced to desecrate the Torah, who instead held it to his heart and danced; men in the Warsaw Ghetto dancing...

Why does the Torah call Sukkot "the time of our joy" when we leave our comfortable homes to sit in a flimsy hut? Rabbi Daniel Rowe uncovers a fascinating clue hidden in the Exodus story. The Torah says God placed the Israelites in sukkot when He took them out of Egypt, yet we only ever read about them living in tents. So where were the sukkot? Drawing on the Torah text, the Talmud and th...

On Yom Kippur we ask God for forgiveness three separate ways, and most of us have no idea they mean different things. Rabbi Daniel Rowe unpacks Selicha, Mechila, and Kappara, three medieval categories that reshape what it means to actually repair a relationship, whether with another person or with God, and why the deepest form of teshuva has nothing to do with avoiding punishment at all. 0:00 What...

Every year we walk into the New Year with sincere plans to change — and every year they collapse within days. Rabbi Daniel Rowe breaks down the two mistakes almost everyone makes with resolutions: dreaming too big to sustain, or shrinking the goal so small it doesn't matter. The fix lies in the Hebrew language itself — the word for change, "shinuy," shares a root with the word for ye...

This channel exists in part to fight anti-Semitism head-on, debunking Talmud lies, pushing back on viral smears. But my guest today argues that strategy, while necessary, is losing the larger war. Rabbi Dr. Aharon Ariel Lavi runs the Jerusalem Interfaith Center, lives on the Gaza border, and has spent the last year leading a confidential research project, over 100 field interviews across the Musli...

Did a biblical stone really end up in Scotland? This one has been fought over, stolen twice, and carried (by legend) thousands of miles — from Egypt to Ireland to Scotland, and all the way to the coronation of King Charles. In this episode of Rabbi React, we take the kids on a Scotland road trip, hiking near Ben Nevis and Glen Nevis, visiting Moot Hill in Scone, Stirling, the Highland Folk Museum,...

Will Sexton's video attacking the Talmud has racked up over 700,000 views, and it's full of mistakes. From small factual errors about the Mishnah and Talmud's history to serious misreadings of the text itself. In this video Rabbi Rowe go through these claims point by point: the "13 Principles of Faith" and why Judaism is monotheistic, the Oven of Akhnai story and what rabbini...

The online world erupted as some of the internet's most prominent antisemites started accusing each other of having Jewish ancestry, from Nick Fuentes and Sneako to Dan Bilzerian. Rabbi Daniel Rowe reacts to the viral clips and traces a far older pattern behind them, from Nicolas Donin's role in the 1240 Paris Disputation to Otto Weininger, the term coined by Theodore Lessing in 1930, and...

Tu B'Av is often called Israel's Valentine's Day, but its roots go far deeper than romance. The Talmud gives six different reasons for celebrating this date, from tribal reconciliation to the end of the desert generation's deaths to the wood offerings for the Temple altar. None of them seem to explain why this became a day for joy and marriage. Rabbi Daniel Rowe unpacks a teaching...

Tisha B'Av is known as the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, the day both Temples fell and centuries of catastrophe followed. But the Hebrew word at its centre, Eicha, "how can it be", carries a second meaning buried in the same letters: Ayecha, "where are you", the question God asked Adam in the Garden of Eden. Aish’s Rabbi Daniel Rowe traces the line between that first...

Holocaust denial isn't fringe anymore. It's in the comments, it's in the algorithm, and it's getting bolder. So today Rabbi Daniel Rowe is going through the actual paper trail: the ghettos, the Einsatzgruppen field reports, the intercepted Nazi radio messages, the SS's own internal statistics, the postwar trials, and the population arithmetic that independent demographers arrived at without ever c...

For nearly two decades, Venezuela led one of the world's loudest campaigns against Israel, branding it genocidal, calling them ‘Nazis’ and worthy of trial. When two catastrophic earthquakes hit Caracas, killing over 1,700 people, Israel sent a search and rescue team within hours, despite having no diplomatic relations with the country at all. Rabbi Daniel Rowe reacts to the footage and unpacks...

A viral video has split the Jewish world in two. Yossi Farro, a young content creator, met and ate cholent with a celebrity who'd recently appeared with some of the world's most prominent neo-Nazis — and when Nick Fuentes jokingly demanded he wants to put tefillin on with him — the debate exploded online. Is this beautiful Jewish outreach, or dangerous groveling to Jew-haters? In this epis...

A Hamas spokesman named it among the justifications for October 7th. Candace Owens urged American troops to refuse to serve over it. Tucker Carlson's circle calls it a Jewish scheme to summon the Antichrist and end the world. The subject of all this alarm is a cow. Rabbi Daniel Rowe travels to Shiloh, site of the Tabernacle and Israel's first capital, to examine the red heifers themselves...

Bible critics call the Documentary Hypothesis the strongest evidence that the Torah was written by multiple authors, and the flood narrative is their crown jewel. In this episode, Rabbi Rowe reacts to a well-researched video arguing that Genesis contains two interwoven flood stories, written by different authors, with irreconcilable contradictions. He takes the argument seriously, works through th...

Rabbi Daniel Rowe reacts to a viral conversation between Candace Owens and Ana Kasparian, two figures who agree on almost nothing, finding common ground in opposition to Israel and its supporters. Rabbi Rowe unpacks the horseshoe effect driving far-right and far-left voices toward the same antisemitic conclusions, exposes the demonisation logic behind accusations of genocide, draws on the Mosul co...

There's a paradox at the heart of giving, one that damages families, fractures societies, and even shapes our relationship with God. When someone gives you something you genuinely need, gratitude is only half the story. Underneath it, almost always, is resentment. Not because the recipient is selfish or ungrateful, but because real receiving costs dignity. The Talmud noticed this thousands of...

People say Jerusalem was better before 1967. But what was the city actually like under Jordanian rule? On this Yom Yerushalayim, 59 years since the reunification of Jerusalem, Rabbi Rowe walks the ancient streets of the Old City to uncover what really happened: the destruction of all 58 synagogues in the Jewish Quarter, Jews banned from their holiest sites despite signed agreements, Christian inst...

Dan Bilzerian has millions of followers, and he's using that platform to spread Holocaust denial, Jew hatred, Talmud slander, and spread dangerous rhetoric about the Jewish people. In this episode of Rabbi Rowe Reacts, we go claim by claim through his most dangerous statements: from denying the 6 million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, to calling Israel a parasite, misrepresenting the...

Did God really command genocide in the Bible? Recently, Jordan Peterson faced 20 atheists, and he was challenged on one of Scripture's most disturbing stories: the destruction of Amalek. In this episode of Rabbi Rowe Reacts, Rabbi Rowe breaks down exactly what the text actually says, the full history of Amalek, what the classical Jewish commentators teach, and why this story is radically diffe...

Russell Brand walked into Piers Morgan's studio carrying a Bible, and the internet hasn't stopped talking since. In this episode of Rabbi Rowe Reacts, Rabbi Rowe breaks down the viral moment where Russel Brand searches for his favourite verse live on air, unpacking the profound meaning behind Isaiah 12 and Isaiah 43 — chapters about trust in God, personal redemption, and Israel's natio...

Israel turns 78, but what does that really mean? Beyond the wars, the headlines, and the politics lies a story 2,000 years in the making. In this powerful message, Rabbi Daniel Rowe explores why the Jewish return to their homeland isn't just a political event, it's the fulfillment of an ancient promise, a sacred responsibility, and a calling to bring blessing to every nation on earth. From...

Tucker Carlson and John Mearsheimer claimed they couldn't think of a single time in the last 40 years when the United States chose its own interests over Israel's — so Rabbi Daniel Rowe decided to jog their memory. In this episode of Rabbi Reacts, we walk through the full historical record, chronologically and calmly: 📅 1985 — U.S. pressures Israel to withdraw from Lebanon despite securit...

Is the Exodus a myth — or is archaeology quietly confirming it detail by detail? Rabbi Rowe goes through the full evidence: why Egyptian records would never mention it, why a million-strong civilisation can be archaeologically invisible, and how 14 micro-details in the Torah — from the price of a slave to straw quotas to a palace with 12 pillars and missing bones — match precisely what we now know...

An anti-Israel channel claimed Israel is digging under the Al-Aqsa mosque, threatening its foundations — and that archaeologists have found nothing to prove Jews ever lived here. We decided to find out for ourselves. In this episode of Rabbi Rowe Reacts, we were granted exclusive access to the live archaeological dig beneath the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem — a site not yet open to the public....