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Welcome to The Total Torah Podcast by (Re)Discover Judaism! Join us each Sunday for an English reading of the weekly portion. Episodes are broken down into seven aliyot, allowing listeners the choice of hearing the portion all at once, spread throughout the week, or however you prefer! With The Total Torah Podcast, you now have the option to listen and learn on your terms as Jews around the world work their way through the whole scroll! Follow us on Facebook and Instagram @rediscoverjudaism.
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Meaningful Judaism is a podcast dedicated to exploring why we do what we do in Jewish life, by diving deep into the Torah text. So many of our practices can feel like they’re just there; we go through the motions but they don’t feel especially meaningful. In this podcast, we search for that meaning. Each episode will take you on a journey, tackling questions such as “Why can’t we mix milk and meat?” and “What’s the meaning behind the laws of niddah?” Join our host, Imu Shalev, along with Rab ...
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Welcome back to The Total Torah Podcast! For those of you listening to one aliyah per day, here is where you should start: 02:33 Second Aliyah 03:49 Third Aliyah 04:57 Fourth Aliyah 11:42 Fifth Aliyah 16:17 Sixth Aliyah 19:30 Seventh Aliyah Check out more of our content on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.…
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Welcome back to The Total Torah Podcast! For those of you listening to one aliyah per day, here is where you should start: 02:02 Second Aliyah 06:15 Third Aliyah 09:35 Fourth Aliyah 11:06 Fifth Aliyah 14:14 Sixth Aliyah 15:35 Seventh Aliyah Check out more of our content on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.…
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Welcome back to The Total Torah Podcast! For those of you listening to one aliyah per day, here is where you should start: 01:53 Second Aliyah 02:28 Third Aliyah 03:08 Fourth Aliyah 03:40 Fifth Aliyah 05:00 Sixth Aliyah 06:04 Seventh Aliyah 07:40 Bechukotai 08:03 Second Aliyah 08:35 Third Aliyah 13:23 Fourth Aliyah 15:11 Fifth Aliyah 15:59 Sixth Al…
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Welcome back to The Total Torah Podcast! For those of you listening to one aliyah per day, here is where you should start: 02:11 Second Aliyah 05:26 Third Aliyah 07:39 Fourth Aliyah 10:54 Fifth Aliyah 12:05 Sixth Aliyah 13:51 Seventh Aliyah Check out more of our content on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.…
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Welcome back to The Total Torah Podcast! For those of you listening to one aliyah per day, here is where you should start: 02:52 Second Aliyah 04:01 Third Aliyah 05:27 Fourth Aliyah 06:32 Fifth Aliyah 08:27 Sixth Aliyah 10:20 Seventh Aliyah 11:31 Kedoshim 13:05 Second Aliyah 14:17 Third Aliyah 15:24 Fourth Aliyah 16:00 Fifth Aliyah 17:03 Sixth Aliy…
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Welcome back to The Total Torah Podcast! For those of you listening to one aliyah per day, here is where you should start: 02:37 Second Aliyah 04:10 Third Aliyah 05:01 Fourth Aliyah 05:59 Fifth Aliyah 07:39 Sixth Aliyah 09:55 Seventh Aliyah 10:56 Metzorah 12:37 Second Aliyah 13:51 Third Aliyah 15:32 Fourth Aliyah 17:59 Fifth Aliyah 20:15 Sixth Aliy…
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Welcome back to The Total Torah Podcast! For those of you listening to one aliyah per day, here is where you should start: 02:13 Second Aliyah 03:08 Third Aliyah 04:53 Fourth Aliyah 05:47 Fifth Aliyah 06:31 Sixth Aliyah 10:11 Seventh Aliyah Check out more of our content on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.…
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Welcome back to The Total Torah Podcast! Check out more of our content on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.By (Re)Discover Judaism
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Welcome back to The Total Torah Podcast! For those of you listening to one aliyah per day, here is where you should start: 02:02 Second Aliyah 04:49 Third Aliyah 08:38 Fourth Aliyah 10:07 Fifth Aliyah 11:20 Sixth Aliyah 12:46 Seventh Aliyah Check out more of our content on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.…
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Welcome back to The Total Torah Podcast! For those of you listening to one aliyah per day, here is where you should start: 02:01 Second Aliyah 03:30 Third Aliyah 04:49 Fourth Aliyah 07:09 Fifth Aliyah 10:53 Sixth Aliyah 14:14 Seventh Aliyah Check out more of our content on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.…
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The Hidden Angels in the Megillah | A Book Like No Other: Full Season Release, Just in Time for Purim
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Note for Premium Members: This episode is part of our free release of "A Book Like No Other." If you're a premium subscriber, you already have access to this content in your premium feed. The Book of Esther has no Divine instructions, no prophecies, no outright miracles. God doesn't even get mentioned. We all love hearing how Mordechai and Esther s…
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Reexamining Revelation: The Challenge of Chosenness [Introducing our new season of A Book Like No Other]
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At the heart of Judaism's chosenness lies an unexpected twist that few have noticed. Rabbi Fohrman stumbles upon a shocking connection between two of the Bible's most pivotal moments - one that completely transforms our understanding of what it means to be chosen. This discovery not only challenges centuries of religious interpretation but might ju…
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Rediscovering Tzitzit: Insights from Parshat Shelach (Re-release of "What’s Meaningful About Tzitzit? Part 2)
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(Part 2 of 2) Are tzitzit supposed to “mean” something? Most people who wear tzitzit probably don't find it especially objectionable or burdensome, but how many people can honestly say that wearing tzitzit is a deeply meaningful spiritual practice? That it helps them to be a better Jew, a better person, to feel closer to God? Probably not so many. …
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Rediscovering Tzitzit: Insights from Parshat Shelach (Re-release of "What’s Meaningful About Tzitzit? Part 1)
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(Part 1 of 2) The Aleph Beta Team is hard at work on new episodes of Meaningful Judaism. But in the meantime, we decided to go back to our archives and share this episode about tzitzit, which is discussed in this week's parsha. Are tzitzit supposed to “mean” something? Most people who wear tzitzit probably don't find it especially objectionable or …
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A Book Like No Other is a chance to learn alongside Aleph Beta Founder and Lead Scholar, Rabbi David Fohrman, a master close reader of Torah, as he embarks on his most far-reaching and in-depth explorations. Each season is a stand-alone journey into a different Torah text. Our only goal: reading the Torah carefully, on its own terms, and following …
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The Blasphemer: Why Would Someone Curse God? [Introducing our new season of A Book Like No Other]
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Rabbi David Fohrman and Imu Shalev study the tale of the blasphemer, a dark and puzzling episode buried deep in Leviticus. The details of this story are scarce: an anonymous man provokes a fight in the Israelite camp, curses God, and ultimately is stoned to death as punishment. But a close read of these few short verses sends Rabbi Fohrman and Imu …
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Support Meaningful Judaism today and gain access to tons of meaningful Tisha B'av content on the Aleph Beta website. Visit www.alephbeta.org and use the coupon code MJ2023. Subscribe to Aleph Beta to unlock the full season of A Book Like No Other and get access to a private RSS feed for seamless listening on your favorite podcast app. Meaningful Ju…
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What Else Is Meaningful About Tzitzit and Kashrut? (Season Finale)
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Season 1 of Meaningful Judaism is ending, but before we go, we just have to share some extra Torah that didn’t make it into earlier episodes. There’s the beautiful idea about angels that got cut from our episode on tzitzit – but we’ve found some amazing new evidence, so we’re bringing it back! And then there’s the problem of fish and birds. They go…
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What’s Meaningful About Not Eating Bacon?
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It’s one of the most famous of the Torah's laws: no eating bacon! But is there any particular reason for this restriction? Why does God permit us to eat cow but forbid pig? In this episode, Imu Shalev and Beth Lesch look for clues in the Torah’s language and zoom in on something that’s easy to miss: The Torah never actually says "Pigs aren't kosher…
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Questioning Whether This Podcast Should Exist
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Yep, you read the episode title right. Should this podcast even exist?? We here at Meaningful Judaism put our hearts into creating quality podcasts that probe the meanings behind the mitzvot… but what if this whole premise is misguided? What if there’s a fundamental flaw? Does God really want us to be demanding reasons for the mitzvot? If we were r…
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What’s Meaningful About Tzitzit? (Part 2)
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(Part 2 of 2) Are tzitzit supposed to “mean” something? Most people who wear tzitzit probably don't find it especially objectionable or burdensome, but how many people can honestly say that wearing tzitzit is a deeply meaningful spiritual practice? That it helps them to be a better Jew, a better person, to feel closer to God? Probably not so many. …
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What’s Meaningful About Tzitzit? (Part 1)
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(Part 1 of 2) Are tzitzit supposed to “mean” something? Most people who wear tzitzit probably don't find it especially objectionable or burdensome, but how many people can honestly say that wearing tzitzit is a deeply meaningful spiritual practice? That it helps them to be a better Jew, a better person, to feel closer to God? Probably not so many. …
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What’s meaningful about keeping Shabbat? Lots of things, right? It’s a day of rest, a chance to put down our phones, learn and pray, focus on our family and friends. But Shabbat has its challenging aspects too. Sometimes the restrictions of Shabbat weigh on us and make it hard for us to appreciate how meaningful it is. So how do we hold on to a sen…
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What is the meaning of the ‘niddah’ law? Why does the Torah require husbands and wives to separate when the wife has her period? The laws in Vayikra describe the “whats” of niddah but not the “why.” Why would God want to keep husbands and wives apart from one another? And what does menstruation have to do with it? And those are just the easy questi…
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What is the meaning of the ‘niddah’ law? Why does the Torah require husbands and wives to separate when the wife has her period? The laws in Vayikra describe the “whats” of niddah but not the “why.” Why would God want to keep husbands and wives apart from one another? And what does menstruation have to do with it? And those are just the easy questi…
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What’s Meaningful About Not Mixing Milk and Meat? (Kashrut Part 2)
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What’s meaningful about not mixing milk and meat? Observant Jews who follow the Torah know that cheeseburgers are forbidden… but do you ever stop to ask why? What’s the problem with adding a slice of cheese to your hamburger? Why is it so important to God that we abstain? Is it some kind of test, that God wants us to not eating certain yummy things…
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What’s meaningful about keeping kosher? In this premiere episode of Meaningful Judaism, a brand-new podcast from Aleph Beta Labs, Imu Shalev and Beth Lesch tackle the topic of kashrut, or keeping kosher, beginning by raising a fundamental question that you might not have thought to ask: Does the Torah want us to eat meat? Yes, we know that no Jewis…
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Meaningful Judaism is a podcast dedicated to exploring why we do what we do in Jewish life, by diving deep into the Torah text. So many of our practices can feel like they’re just there; we go through the motions but they don’t feel especially meaningful. In this podcast, we search for that meaning. Each episode will take you on a journey, tackling…
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