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We got an awesome listener question/response to our anal sex episode, so this week we're finding sources we can use to reflect on BDSM and Kink in the tradition! 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_figure...

We got a wonderful listener question this week about how to handle the memories of widely beloved figures who also behaved quite badly during their lives. Weirdly enough, the Talmud has something straightforward to say about this! 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....

On Kiddushin 82a, we find some wild anti-doctor sentiment. A listener was wondering how to square that with the iconic status of the Jewish Doctor, so we're doing our best to find an explanation. 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 twit...

Shockingly, the answer is complicated! Thanks to a wonderful listener question, we're diving into the punishments and practicalities of the Jewish afterlife. 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. M...

A wonderful listener asked us our opinion on the Spring 2021 DSA shabbat scandal, so we're doing our best to use Talmud as a way to understand secular-religious relations in Judaism. 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...

Why does the Talmud care if we wash our hands after cutting our hair? How did they even decide what shoe we are supposed to put on first? And why should we care, today? We do our best to answer on this episode. 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. Fo...

Tying up our arguments from last week's episode, we're finding out what the Talmud and halaxa have to say about "overturning the table", sexually. 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...

We're analyzing the gender and sexuality categories of the Talmud and Leviticus, and how they might transform our understanding of the verse about men lying with men. 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_f...

We're diving into that sweet listener question backlog! In this episiode, we explore the origins of Jewish hair covering, as well as some interesting edge cases like hair covering for single women and a ruling exempting women from it entirely! You can get our merch here: https://xai-how-are-you.creator-spring.com/ Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmu...

My friend Abraham Riesman, author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, comes on the show to talk X-Men, origins of Magneto's Jewishness, collective storytelling, apocalypse and queer allegories. 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...

Friend of mine, friend of the show and Judaism Unbound co-host Lex Rofeberg returns to the show to discuss Neo-Hasidism, its connections to Paleo-Hasidism, plus its future, problems, benefits and history. 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...

Sam Biagetti and Michael continue our series by exploring the rise of the Baal Shem, Jew castles, asceticism, young men frolicking in the woods and how Hasidism became what it is today. 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...

In our new series on Hasidism, Sam Biagetti returns to the show to set the stage with a full, fabulous history of Jewish schisms up to the early modern era and the invention of Orthodox Judaisms. 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 twit...

Today: a medieval Jewish poem about the existential dread of being a trans girl and a dive into what it means to "bless", and specifically what it means to bless the bad along with the good. 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 @...

Today's episode is brought to you by the word: pitchfork! We're learning about theurgy, we're learning about trancestors, we're learning about the devil and it is all very gay. 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 a...

We're tackling a listener question about the high holidays and what to do when other people aren't taking part in the tradition of repentance during this time of year. Plus a really fun Talmud Final Destination story. 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/xaihoware...

We're unearthing ancient union law, comparing it to Ordinance of Laborers 1349, connecting the post Black Death period and COVID, and figuring out what the hell Judaism has to do with any of this. 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 twi...

Michael is (non-Covid) sick! So, we decided not to record but instead release this amazing, formerly Patron only episode where Never Angeline North returns to the show to read her short story, "A River Walks on Nineteen Legs"! 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/...

On Bava Metzia 83a, we're studying contract law, labor rights and collective bargaining. Then we'll be diving a bit into the Haymarket Massacre and how our Talmud skills can be helpful in understanding our history. 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...

Inspired by a listener suggestion, we delve into the possibility of asexual Talmud ancestors and how it relates to our framework of collective responsibility for the mitzvot. 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...

We're diving headfirst into our mailbag with questions about imposter syndrome, shades of grey, and problematic prayer language. 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.

Michael teaches us the origins of city mouse vs. country mouse and introduces us to a debate on the culinary benefits of accidental mouse infusion. Sign up for A Nightmare on Chelm Street here: https://forms.gle/HLYT66nxFYLPZFhN9 ! 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...

Michael introduces us to an education fish pit and the Talmud's first baby makeover. 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.

We're taking a vacation this week, so we're giving you a formerly Patron-only episode to enjoy! Michael brings us an incredible word of the week: חול. Join us in falling down a rabbit hole of learning about the sexiest, fieriest, buffest, humblest burning bird in the bible that you never knew about. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 40...

And not in a fun way! Michael brought us a sugye about bears, lions and a sexy Jewish ex-gladiator we all know and love. 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.