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What can a nazirite shave with and who cares? A listener wanted to know and we did our best to find out! Discover the hair raising results on this week's episode. Sign up for Revealing God's Face here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsduqurzIoGtT0NLAyioV8UaEBajNXMGV8 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave...

A listener asks: what's up with Jewish ideas and practices about breath? The answer will take your breath away! Featuring Adam, Moses, kabbalah and mystical head nodding. 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 @mi...

Michael brings a juicy tidbit about what to do if you miss out on sacrificing your lamb plus other repeat holidays! Sign up for Xava's class, Beyond Measure, here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-measure-recovering-talmudic-wisdom-on-life-learning-and-love-tickets-594079998267 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leav...

We won’t have a regular episode coming out this week because of Passover! We’ll be back next week with our normal nonsense, in the meantime, sign up for this class that Xava is teaching on some Mishnah that she absolutely loves and adores! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-measure-recovering-talmudic-wisdom-on-life-learning-and-love-tickets-594079998267 Visit our website to ask us questions at x...

Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein Levi returns to the show to talk more about her book, "When We Collide", and the methodology we can use to figure out how to really use Jewish text in our lives. Check our her work (including this book!) at www.rjelevi.com/ 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 pat...

Author and presidential contender Marianne Williamson joins us to talk about her politics, spirituality, Jewishness and transforming a broken system. Learn more about her and her campaign at www. Marianne2024.com 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....

Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi joins us to discuss her new book, "When We Collide", an exploration of Jewish sexual ethics. We talk drash, poop, BDSM, practical impurity and a bunch more. Check our her work (including this book!) at https://www.rjelevi.com/ 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 u...

A listener question about the multiverse is here! Just because HaShem knows everything, does that mean everything exists? And more importantly, does it matter? 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....

Michael brings us a selection from famous (big trans energy) Jew Franz Kafka's Parables and Paradoxes. Featured are sexy sad sirens, a very suggestive dragon and Moses. 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...

A listener asks, why do we see so few women do hagba? The answer probably won't surprise you but it's very fun anyway! This episode, lift Torah, get swole. 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. Mus...

Following up on our WiFi episode, Michael has brought some tidbits about what the Rabbi's thought about lightning, duality, lungs and clapping. Sign up for InTensions of the Heart here! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intensions-of-the-heart-how-deafness-and-disability-define-halakha-tickets-523288930277 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at...

Xava brings a survey of halakhic rulings that help us make sense of the ethics of "stealing" WiFi. 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 first episode of our whole new deal! Ingenious waterworks, forbidden blessings, mouth to mouth and adorable puppies are all featured. 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 Schreibe...

This episode, we're announcing our next big project as a pod! Plus reflecting on everything we've done so far. We're gonna be putting together a deep and juicy researched series on Temple OS! If you don't know what that is, tune in to find out. 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 patre...

Ritual purity law? In my trans gender? It's more likely than you think! Xava is finally unveiling the general vibe and arguments of her paper on niddah for trans women, it's a bloody good time. 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 twitte...

The peanut in the matryoshka is finally revealed! It's the finale of our Russian Doll series and we're finally giving birth, going to the underworld, partying in a fish, finding the cosmic mikveh and healing our trauma. 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/xaihowa...

The penultimate Russian Doll episode! This time we're orbiting the whirlpool of birth, the multiverse, yearning, demanding your conjugal rights and four cats guarding your bed from snakes. 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 @xa...

Nadia goes to Budapest and discovers...inter-generational trauma! In this episode, I finally connect this whole Russian Doll series to my own mother, we talk about the sacredness of the ordinary, broken tablets, and the futility of time travel. 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 patre...

We're taking a week off. See you all in 2023! 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 first Alan episode! We get goodies like gay exploration, loosening of the past, place lag, the decay of location, doing DMT at a warehouse party in Hungary, and a bunch of other stuff. 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 @xa...

Nadia gets haunted by her mom! And vice versa? Plus, reincarnation, magnetic souls, the epigenetic K Hole and learning to accept the limits of our agency. 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. Musi...

We're answering a bunch of questions at once! Thanks to all our listeners for such wonderful topics: vampires, evil, BDSM, the origins of the minyan, and the mussar movement. 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...

Can any of us escape our pasts? Is time travel Jewish? We explore these questions on today's Russian Doll epi! Also featured: spiritual ennui, living in the present, and Satanist pawn shops. 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 @...

A listener asks why we pray facing east, and the answer lies somewhere along this episode's meandering path through Talmudic disagreements, shifting historical meanings, and a discussion of sacred place. 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...

A listener asks: what's the deal with halakhic water rights? The answer? Flooding the world, a floating throne, legislating the commons and proximity to the source. 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_fig...