Best Book Ever

By Rabbi David Kasher

Every week, Rabbi David Kasher takes us on a 15-minute dive into the Parsha (the weekly Torah portion), to see some of its layers and complexity. We'll try to get a feeling for why this text has captu... more

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The podcast currently has 144 episodes available.

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July 19, 2022 Everything is Permitted - Parshat Pinchas
It's one of the most difficult problems in theology: does God know everything we're going to do, or do we have free will? This week, we consider an answer by Judaism's most deterministic thinker: Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner, the Mei HaShiloach, and a response by his most illustrious student.
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18min
July 13, 2022 Donkey Xote - Parshat Balak
If Bilaam is really so bad, that brings us back to our original question - what is he doing in the Torah? What are we reading this bizarre story at all???
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14min
July 11, 2022 BONUS CLASS The Legend of Miriam's Well - Parshat Chukat
This is a recording of Rabbi David Kasher's Parsha Study Class from July 7, 2022. For the full class visit IKAR's YouTube channel.
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54min
July 07, 2022 The Birth of Jewish Culture - Parshat Hukat
n Chapter 21 of the Book of Numbers, after forty years of desert wandering, we suddenly detect the stirrings of a cultural awakening.
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17min
July 02, 2022 BONUS CLASS Korach's Coaliton - Parshat Korach
Who's on Team Korach?
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59min
June 29, 2022 The Ambivalent Angel - Parshat Korah
This week, the Angel of Death showed up twice.

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15min
June 22, 2022 Overkill - Parshat Shelach
Forty years in the desert?? Really?!?
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12min
June 17, 2022 BONUS CLASS Appealing Divine Law - Parshat Beha'alotkha
God gave us the law. Now we're giving it back. From Rabbi David Kasher's Parsha Studies class June 16, 2022
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57min
June 15, 2022 The World's Shortest Book - Parshat Beha'alotkha
Someone must have slipped something into my drink. I’m reading my Torah late one night and, suddenly, the letters start to run backwards...

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17min
June 09, 2022 The Case of the Seventy Princes - Parshat Naso
Today's episode is a bit later than usual because of Shavuot.
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12min

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