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This past weekend, our Jewish brothers and sisters mourned and fasted in memory of the darkest day in Jewish history. How many of us know about it? How many of us care? What is Tisha B’Av and why should we care? All of that and more in this week’s episode.

Shalom everyone! In this episode of IBR, we are talking through the beginning of Parasha Pinchas. How is it that Pinchas gets to basically get away with wanton murder? Some new information may help us solve this perplexing question. Also, can we take from Pinchas’ lead and take matters of judgement into our own hands? We’ll answer all these questions in this week’s episode.

In today’s episode, we begin in last week’s parsha, go back to Genesis, before finally arriving in this week’s parsha, Korach. There is an interesting theme that. flows through the entirety of Scripture…that God focuses His voice on a nation’s leaders.

Parsha Shelach is packed with events, beginning with the sending of the spies. While there are many questions that surround this event, our topic today is going to focus on one phrase of the ten spies about grasshoppers. We can’t help but compare and contrast ourselves with these spies and how we see ourselves affects how we walk with God.

Shavuot often doesn’t get it’s fair share of attention. How often do we celebrate it and move on to the next festival? Just because it’s a one day festival doesn’t mean it lacks importance and relevance and isn’t worthy of our complete and total attention and observance. Shavuot’s impacts should also be realized each and every day following, way into the future.

Let’s face it, by the end of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, most of us are ready to be done and can’t wait to sink our teeth into a big, doughy pizza. But did you know that there has been a long standing tradition among some religious Jews to hold a seder at the end of the Passover week? This seder is called Seudah haMoshiah, Messiah’s Meal. In this episode we’ll discuss the meal and what it could mean to us.

In this week’s episode, we are continuing to expand our understanding of Passover. May the wonder and challenge that is Passover continue to shape our actions and responsibilities as we protest injustice, hopelessness, and the oppression of empire.

In this week’s episode, we spend the entire show talking about three key phrases in the beginning of this week’s parashat.

Love your enemies. Treat everyone with the same lovingkindness God has shown you. Both Scriptural commandments and very good advice, but how many find these harder to actually live out in your everyday life? In this episode, we talk about a new way to expand our understandings of these foundational, Godly qualities.

This week, we share a throw-back teaching on Parashat Emor from 2018. We often, much like the traditions we come from, focus on only a few “pet” Scriptures. These tend to be things about dietary laws, calendar, and the Name. In this teaching, we invite you to look past those Scriptures that are familiar and easy in order to gain broader wisdom from the Torah.