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Today · 10 min
Day 56: How the Jewish Calendar Became a Guinness World Record
Day 56 | Rosh Hashanah Twelve lunar months leave us about eleven days short of a solar year. What do we do with those eleven days?
Friday · 38 min
Day 55: Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky: Learning in My Rebbe’s Voice
Day 55 | Beitzah Nearly thirty years after ninth grade, Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin reunites with the rebbe whose voice he still hears when he learns Talmud.
Thursday · 13 min
Day 54: Where I Am or Where I Come From?
Day 54 | Beitzah Jews in the diaspora once kept two days of Yom Tov because word of the new moon could take weeks to reach them. Why do we still keep both?
Wednesday · 9 min
Day 53: A Taste of Two Futures
Day 53 | Beitzah Why can we cook on Yom Tov but not on Shabbos? The answer lies in the future each holy day invites us to taste.
Tuesday · 9 min
Day 52: Half for God, Half for You
Day 52 | Beitzah Making room for God and making room for others begin at the same Yom Tov table.
November 2 · 12 min
Day 51: An Egg’s Potential, a Holy Day’s Promise
Day 51 | Beitzah Fresh food, a phone set aside, and the possibility of discovering something new about ourselves. Tractate Beitzah explores how we make room for a holy day.
October 30 · 32 min
Day 50: Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel: Finding Joy in a Fragile World
Day 50: Sukkah Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel explores how the sukkah teaches us to hold grief and blessing in the same hands, and find joy within life’s uncertainty. Editor’s Note: Toward the end of the podcast, we experienced some technical...
October 29 · 10 min
Day 49: Two Messiahs, One Redemption
Day 49 | Sukkah Mashiach ben Yosef builds the infrastructure of redemption. Mashiach ben David restores its soul. The Jewish future needs both.
October 28 · 9 min
Day 48: The Beauty We Bring to Torah
Day 48 | Sukkah From the Shabbos table to the Torah we teach, Jewish life deserves our creativity and care.
October 27 · 13 min
Day 47: Rebuilding the Sukkah of David
Day 47 | Sukkah From Avraham’s 318 servants to the boards in our garage, a lesson in living beyond despair.
October 26 · 11 min
Day 46: Creation, Revelation, Redemption
Day 46 | Sukkah Why do we leave our homes for a sukkah five days after Yom Kippur? What, exactly, are we celebrating?
October 23 · 1 hr 8 min
Day 45: Rabbi Yaakov Glasser: Finding Ourselves in the Holy of Holies
Day 45 | Yoma What do two goats, five immersions, and a cloud of incense reveal about the human condition? Rabbi Yaakov Glasser is the Managing Director of Communal Engagement at the Orthodox Union, where he plays a pivotal role in strengthening...
October 22 · 16 min
Day 44: Carrying Our Cries Before God
Day 44 | Yoma One person enters the Holy of Holies. An entire people’s tears enter with him.
October 21 · 12 min
Day 43: Making Space for Forgiveness
Day 43 | Yoma Teshuva asks us to take responsibility and imagine a different future.
October 20 · 14 min
Day 42: Two Goats, One Journey
Day 42 | Yoma Today's learning is sponsored by Eli Cem Cohen in honor of student Rabbi Leon Okan Avraham, on his birthday. Why does Yom Kippur’s service need both the offering and the scapegoat?
October 19 · 14 min
Day 41: One Person, One Place, One Day
Day 41 | Yoma This episode is sponsored by Deborah Spector, Oak Park, Illinois. A broken covenant and a bereaved father stand behind Yom Kippur’s most sacred encounter.
October 16 · 1 hr
Day 40: Dr. Malka Simkovich: How Jerusalem Held the Jewish World Together
Day 40 | Shekalim What held the Jewish people together when so many lived far from the Land of Israel? Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich is the Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish Publication Society, Visiting Professor at Yeshiva University’s Revel Graduate School...
October 15 · 10 min
Day 39: The Pushka That Built a People
Day 39 | Shekalim How did a small charity box become a technology of Jewish peoplehood?
October 14 · 5 min
Day 38: A Half-Shekel, a Whole People
Day 38 | Shekalim Why does the Torah insist that rich and poor give the exact same amount?
October 13 · 9 min
Day 37: The Jewish People as a Living Whole
Day 37 | Shekalim Tractate Shekalim asks what it means to bind ourselves to something larger than ourselves. Today's learning is sponsored by Roger in Seattle in memory of his beloved wife Jane.

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