Xai, how are you?

The most powerful booty in the Talmud, the virtue of truthiness, temporal-spatial orientations and genius that goes unrecognized. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The start of a trilogy on one of Xava's faves, Rabbi Meir. We wonder whether ontological truth matters in Talmud, who is a good teacher, what it means to be too cool for school and whether it pays to be a smarty pants. Visit our new website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaih...

Another wonderful listener voicemail, more talk about fascism and our response to it as conditioned by Talmud, and some banter about our personal dramas. Visit our new website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. M...

We answer a listener question about abolition, celebrate Michael's first lady pill, do an unboxing and deal with issues of anachronism when discussing police. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xavadecordova. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We're taking a week off this week, but enjoy this really cute and soothing message that Michael made!

One changed letter and a listener question lead us down a rabbit hole of epistemological silliness and materialist feminist reinterpretation. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Binya Koatz returns! Find her at binyakoatz.com and find the laws of Spookot at https://rb.gy/y3higw . We talk with her about this ancient and much venerated holiday, plus as usual, lots of gay stuff! Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreib...

We dive back into Sanhedrin 65b to talk about raising the dead, joints, Heroes of Might and Magic, and mystic politics in ancient Israel. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We explore the Rabbi's obsession with sexual perversion, give some listener shout outs, and interrogate the divine monopoly on fortune telling. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Zombie rabbi rap battle, 'nuff said. To register for my Mishna Beit Midrash, just go to https://www.teprov.org/form/adultedfall20 and select Mishnah Beit Midrash! Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

The beginning of our Halloween series! What does it mean to be god-like, what is a golem, Xava's health, malarkey and the mysteries of alternate fractal realities. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Michael does a transcendent interview with Sam Biagetti of the Historiansplaining podcast about belief in God, the movies, Jewish particularity and the non-existence of religion. Follow Historiansplaining at @historiansplaining. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_f...

Demon Babies! Lilith, neo-Dworkinism, mpreg and the existential and sexual import of our historical moment all make an appearance. You won't wanna miss it! Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

It's more likely than you think! Fractal primordial beings, queer representation in history, being sad about texting and much much more. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We try a special new kind of episode! Michael interviews their dad about Jewish life in the former Soviet Union and we provide commentary. Plus a special shout out and plenty of banter. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Senator Sanderz calls the show, Rabbis in their economic context , Xava mixes up Yehuda and Shimon, and we deal with persistent class antipathy. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

We welcome back special guest Binya Koatz, discuss Yochanan a.k.a the hottest trans girl in the Talmud, magical beauty spells, queer yeshiva love and much more! Check out Binya's poetry and other work at https://www.binyakoatz.com/ Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @mis...

We welcome a very special guest, Maimonides Nutz! Support her on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/maimonides_nutz Talking healing, Jewish goth vibes, a dimension of suffering and how we handle Jewish childhood trauma. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. M...

Talmudic Rip Van Winkle, Wellbutrin, what sweet dreams are made of, revenge of the carobs, plus fan mail, and anxiety as Jewish practice. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xavadecordova. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Honi bologna, historical construction of sexualities, conservatism versus radicalism plus emergency fast days. Call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

How to "get" from A to B, divorce documents, boring Talmud, socialist terrariums, epistemological panic, and why the Rabbis weren't radical enough. Call the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xavadecordova. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Smutty gossip, Jewish sensuality, our 60th patron, translation, plus koshering the unkosherable. Call the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Aesthetic value as moral virtue, sorcery, transmisogyny in the Jewish community, the issues with leftist fashion, plus now you can call in and tell Michael what to do, Jewishly! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

Undermining capital punishment, undoing expertise, the limits of academia, plus Michael designs clothing and goes to an anti-police protest. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Join the Shel Maala FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/920910168356795/ Music by Ben Schreiber.

The Talmud says don't talk to cops and practice solidarity! We banter, Xava feels inadequate, historical transmisogyny, we're behind on our reading, and Jewish relationships to the carceral state. Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.