Rav Joe's 929 Tanakh Podcast

Audio to follow based one of Aviva Zornberg's brilliant readings. Longer than usual but one of the best ideas I know to frame Devarim as a whole. Using Bamidbar 27 to explain the sudden welling up of strength and capacity that Moshe discovers in himself in Devarim ch.4 Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.4

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.3

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.2

Audio on the greatest Rashi of all. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.1

Text here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.25

Within the comic story is some seriously beautiful alnguange. In today's audio, Dov Lerner, considers the signficance of how a verse from Bilam's mouth ended up as the first morse code message ever sent- what, indeed hath God wrought. Dov is assistant rabbi at congregation kins in Chicago, doctoral candidate at divinity school of uchicago, father of two red headed princesses and owner of a...

We have the pleasure of Balak and Bilam's company for a few chapters - if you can't defeat Israel on the battlefield then curse them from the mountaintops! considering the links between Bilam and the akeida! It's not just donkeys. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.22

Definitely a mixed bag of a chapter: successful campaigns against the Canaanim, the Emori and Bashan, but in the middle the strange story of the plague of the snakes. Our introduction to the second generation. Military initiative, old problems, new solutions - and a theological message from the enigmatic plague of snakes. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.21

One of the most significant chapters in Moshe's life, the striking of the rock and the decree that Moshe and Aharon won't enter into the land. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.20

The para aduma , the red heifer which purifies the impure and makes impure those who are pure (Dayan Lopian once called Bnei Akiva a red heifer...)Audio suggesting that the location of the red heifer at this moment shows us something critical about the development of the story as a whole, the move from one generation to the next. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Num...

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.18

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.17

The story returns - with Korach's rebellion! Not only a Talmida Chachma, but also one of my best friends since childhood. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.16

And suddenly a break in the narrative for some halachot. Offerings, separating challah, unintentional sins, and the story of the wood gatherer. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.15

Calev was and is a formative mentor for me in Zionism, its thought, its beauty, its challenges, its opportunity and its dangers. He also loves to learn and teach Jewish texts and link them up with topics connected to Israel. He's always viewed the story of the spies as one of the most important 'sugyot' for how we think about the Jewish love and fear of the land of Israel. Text for thi...

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.13

The bad news continues... Miriam and Aharon speak of Moshe's wife (whoever she is). former Cooper student, NYU Rosh Kollel and now one of Sefaria's top programmers! Very humbled that today's audio is sponsored by a group of students in honour of my birthday. Hebrew and English text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.12

based on a piece I wrote many years ago: https://joewolfson.com/2014/05/22/bamidbar-and-a-serious-man-2/. Hebrew and English text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.10

Pesach, Pesach Sheini, and the description of how the camp will move and settle in the desert years. Hebrew and English text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.9

The Beginning Of Beha'alotcha - my joint favourite parsha in the Torah. . Hebrew and English text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.8

Moshe's obedience and the Princes' initiative. Hebrew and English text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.7

Between The Sota and The Kohen Gadol - The Ambiguity Of The Nazir'. Hebrew and English text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.6

Hebrew and English text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.5

Hebrew and English text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.4

Hebrew and English text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.3 .