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Season 2 premiere of Russian Doll is finally here! It asks us the question we're all always thinking about: are we all pregnant with ourselves? Is HaShem pregnant with themselves? 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 @xaihowareyo...

Listener question time! What is tzedek, who is Tzadok, and would we hook up with the wife of Potiphar? The answers are in this episode! Featured: venn diagrams, outfit repeaters, awkward dudes and the 8 levels of charity. 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/xaiho...

Finally, listener questions return! This week: Talmudic insults, arguments, and lessons about distrusting the government. Anarchism, communism, friendship and ostriches all make an appearance. 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...

Finally, the Russian Doll season finale! It is a true quagmire of sincerity. We've got Jodorowsky, getting to be alone with ourselves, Maimonides returns and some Pirkei Avot greatest hits. Register for It Is In The Heavens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/it-is-in-the-heavens-jewish-astrology-in-the-talmud-and-beyond-tickets-422556155837 Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com...

We're taking another vacation week, so here's replay of a patron episode. We'll be back next week! Michael has a Talmudic tale that nearly passes the Bechdel test! It features fake bread, smoke, nosy neighbors, miracles, and a humble guy who (maybe) sustains the world by only eating carobs. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-161...

Xava is getting new boobies, so we're taking a week off. Enjoy this patron replay, and we'll be back next week! Michael brings a sugye addressing the age old question: are halakhic loopholes more like a barrel of cucumbers or a vat of honey? 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...

It's time for our Rabbi Akiva omnibus episode! Where did he come from, where did he go? Was he cool, or not so much? Also, is he sort of also an allegory for the process of history? We will try 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 patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow...

The penultimate episode of season one of Russian Doll takes us on a journey through our own guilt, survivor's guilt, blessing really special trees, Elisha Ben Abuya and making Xava cry. 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 @xaiho...

It's double feature time! A listener wanted to know what the Talmud has to say about dancing, and also I randomly wanted to talk about all the wild stuff the Talmud says about dogs. Featuring: prophecy, Babylonian strippers, the angel of death and a Passover mystery. 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 voicema...

Our series exploring the book God Is Here continues by exploring one of our favorite metaphors for God, HaMakom! Join us in a soup of transcendence, absence, concentric circles and confusion. 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...

Mirror, mirror on the wall: do we even exist at all? Maybe! This episode of our show and of Russian Doll explores subjectivity, existence, mirrors and weird sex. Register for How to Be a Xevruta here: https://www.judaismunbound.com/classes/p/xevruta ! 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 o...

Part one of our exploration of "God Is Here" by Toba Spitzer, we're talking about the concept of God metaphors and specifically God as water. Featuring: magical wells, our own cynicism, divine bathtubs and how Xava learned to believe in stuff again. 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...

It's our first experimental long episode, and our fifth Russian Doll episode! We spent a long time talking about soul soup, mortality, Maimonides being a sneaky boy, and the oneness of all joy. This one is a doozy y'all! 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/xaihow...

What happened to the Nazarite that was too pretty for his own good? Why did the Rabbis not like Nazirites to begin with? Did the Jews have our own Narcissus? Today, we 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 patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou...

Finally, a listener question episode! This time: what is the Jewish history of chicken and chicken soup? Turns out it's terrifying toddler toys, disgusting concoctions, forbidden magic and lovable scamps. 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 u...

Finally, the second main character of Russian doll is introduced! Also, the danger of compassion, humble brags, Xava's type and a pair of Rabbinic lovers. 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...

Our third Russian Doll episode is here! Featured are: heavy hair, kindness as the way out, the most Jewish stuff yet, more mommy issues, and the sad tale of Absalom! 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_fi...

We're answering a listener question about harpist, sexy lady, secret keeper, midrashic queen and potential immortal being, Serach Bat Asher. 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 Schre...

What kinds of dudes get to be on the Sanhedrin? The Talmud, unshockingly, has weird opinions and so do we! Also featured: Michael predicting my arguments ahead of 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 twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss...

The Russian Doll series continues with episode two! This team featuring anger, friendship, mommy issues and ketamine! 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.

When do you say Kaddish for a non-Jewish relative? Enquiring minds want to know! And the Sages have....suggestions. Plus, the special benefits of being a delicate baby!

We shot off some hot takes about math in our episode discussing svara, so now math maven Ada Morse is here to educate us on the philosophy of math, its spiritual dimensions and its relationship to svara. 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...

We're kicking of our grand experiment of discussing Russian Doll and Talmud with Season 1, Episode 1, which features Israeli joints, Yeshiva ghosts, reincarnation, and self sabotage! 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 @xaihowar...

A listener asks: do monotheism and monogamy have to go hand in hand? We answer: emphatically no! Plus a bunch of sources as to why that's the case, and one guy who had 300 wives. 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...

I (Xava) was INCREDIBLY depressed this week, so we're re-releasing a patron episode for y'all! I'm sorry for the inconsistency recently but I'm feeling better and bringing you lots of new episodes soon. Thank you for your support, we literally couldn't do it without y'all. Episode Description: Want to know how the way you measure bread influences your fitness for the priesthood? Listen and find ou...