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The Ambivalent Angel - Parshat Korah 29.06.2022 15:00 ↓

This week, the Angel of Death showed up twice.

Overkill - Parshat Shelach 22.06.2022 11:25 ↓

Forty years in the desert?? Really?!?

BONUS CLASS Appealing Divine Law - Parshat Beha'alotkha 17.06.2022 56:08 ↓

God gave us the law. Now we're giving it back. From Rabbi David Kasher's Parsha Studies class June 16, 2022

The World's Shortest Book - Parshat Beha'alotkha 15.06.2022 16:45 ↓

Someone must have slipped something into my drink. I’m reading my Torah late one night and, suddenly, the letters start to run backwards...  

The Case of the Seventy Princes - Parshat Naso 09.06.2022 11:48 ↓

Today's episode is a bit later than usual because of Shavuot.

Into the Wild - Parshat Bamidbar 30.05.2022 13:04 ↓

Three striking midrashim help us understand how the Hebrew name for this fourth book of the Torah can help frame our journey through it.

BONUS CLASS Weapons of War - Parshat Behukotai 27.05.2022 1:06:38 ↓

There is a curse upon the land.

The Book of Love - Parshat Behukotai 23.05.2022 14:05 ↓

So this is how it ends?!

BONUS CLASS The Meaning of Freedom - Parshat Behar 20.05.2022 54:00 ↓

Pop Quiz: What Biblical verse is on the Liberty Bell? This is an edited version of Rabbi David Kasher's weekly Parsha Study class from 5/19/2022

Joy and Jubilee - Parshat Behar 18.05.2022 14:35 ↓

A whole new spin on Yom Kippur.

BONUS CLASS Kabbalistic Storytelling - Parshat Emor 13.05.2022 51:51 ↓

How did counting the Omer become so much more than numbers? This is an edited down version of Rabbi David Kasher's weekly Parsha Studies Class from 5/12/2022.

A State of Moral Emergency - Parshat Emor 09.05.2022 15:49 ↓

Right in the middle of the first major list of the Jewish holidays comes a major interruption.

BONUS CLASS Decoding the Codes - Parshat Kedoshim 06.05.2022 47:11 ↓

Parsha study with Rabbi David Kasher from May 5, 2022

The Most Important Thing - Parshat Kedoshim 04.05.2022 15:30 ↓

This podcast was produced while standing on our heads. The rest is commentary.

BONUS CLASS The Nakednesses - Parshat Acharei Mot 29.04.2022 1:03:11 ↓

Uncovering the familial sexual prohibitions of Leviticus.

Telling the Story Differently 22.04.2022 14:42 ↓

Rabbi Kasher checks in from his Seder in Israel

BONUS CLASS The Priests of Passover 08.04.2022 57:26 ↓

Parsha study with Rabbi David Kasher from April 7, 2022

Shedding Our S(k)ins - Parshat Metzora 04.04.2022 16:28 ↓

What's the connection between gossip and skin disease?

BONUS CLASS The Origins of Impurity 31.03.2022 47:57 ↓

Parsha study with Rabbi David Kasher from March 31, 2022

The Haunted House - Parshat Tazria 28.03.2022 12:32 ↓

Can a house get sick? The Torah seems to think so.

Kasher on Kosher - Parshat Shemini 21.03.2022 17:24 ↓

This week, we receive the first major list of kosher laws. But why are we supposed to keep kosher? There are some classic answers. But Rabbi Kasher's got a theory of his own.

Shattered - Parshat Tzav 14.03.2022 12:37 ↓

Let us begin with one little clay pot. And we will arrive at the whole of existence.  

BONUS CLASS The Sin of Abel - Parshat Vayikra 11.03.2022 57:46 ↓

Parsha study with Rabbi David Kasher from March 10, 2022