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Rabbi Shais Taub

Rabbi Shais Taub has delivered Torah lectures and classes to audiences on six continents. He writes a popular weekly column in Ami Magazine and is the author of the bestselling book, G-d of Our Understanding: Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction as well as several groundbreaking works on Tanya including: the Tanya Map teaching tool, the Soul Maps curriculum, and the audio series Mapping the Tanya. He currently serves as scholar-in-residence at Chabad of the Five Towns in Cedarhurst, NY. His lectures and classes may be found on SoulWords.org.

  • 11 episodes
  • Updated March 9

Episodes11

  • March 9 · 1 hr 4 min

    We Need a Haircut (Again)

    The brothers reflect on the structure of Jewish mourning, the experience of saying Kaddish three times a day, and some of the strange, funny, and sometimes questionable moments that happen during Shiva.

  • Oct 9, 2024 · 1 hr 38 min

    Yom Kippur 5785 (Blood Brothers IX)

    Why aren't there two days of Yom Kippur? What makes Die Hard fun? What are the riddles of the rabbi of Baghdad? Brothers Shais and Dovid Taub discuss this and more on this latest edition of your favorite podcast.

  • Dec 8, 2023 · 1 hr 17 min

    Chanukah (Blood Brothers VIII)

    The Blood Brothers talk about miracle oil, saving lives, googly eyes, Chinese accident victims, flying to Martha's Vineyard with Alan Dershowitz, and lots of other stuff in this latest edition to their podcast.

  • Jul 24, 2022 · 33 min

    Special Guest R' Bentzi Sudak (Blood Brothers VII)

    On this episode, brothers Shais and Dovid Taub welcome a special guest, their old friend Rabbi Bentzi Sudak from London, UK who was getting ready for his son's bar mitzvah and needed help figuring out some stuff about the mystical bar mitzvah discourse...

  • Mar 30, 2022 · 1 hr 26 min

    Blood Brothers VI

    Live from SoulWords studios, a special live edition of the Taub Brothers speaking about all kinds of interesting stuff including: ventriloquists, McCarthyism, aliens, paganism, and springtime. As they say at Blood Brothers live,

  • Mar 29, 2022 · 1 hr 39 min

    Blood Brothers V

    Live from SoulWords studios, a special live edition of the Taub Brothers speaking about all kinds of interesting stuff including: the lost continent of Atlantis, the color eigengrau, the four states of matter, the etymology of the word "quintessence,

  • May 18, 2020 · 46 min

    Sukkos (Blood Brothers IV)

    After a hiatus, the Blood Brothers return with a special pre-Sukkos edition of their show. They discuss why cats are afraid of cucumbers as well as various examples of the "makif" encompassing force.

  • May 17, 2020 · 34 min

    Shavuos (Blood Brothers III)

    This third installment of our show is all about threes! Why was Torah given in the third month? Why does discovering the truth require three viewpoints? Why are there three stooges and to which three sefiros do they correspond according to kabbalah? ...

  • May 10, 2020 · 43 min

    Lag B'Omer (Blood Brothers II)

    If humor can be a "Trojan horse;" the difference between legitimate art and propaganda; how the National Security Administration can help you learn chasidus; the connection between the Rashbi, the Ari Zal, the Baal Shem Tov,

  • May 3, 2020 · 49 min

    Pesach Sheini (Blood Brothers I)

    Topics from this episode include: Pesach Sheini; synagogue architecture; whether or not people with social anxiety tend to pray longer; if green laser pointers are more dangerous than red laser pointers; Chinese whispers, Chinese apples,