Sukkot: Four Species, Five Principles

In this podcast, Rabbi David Levin-Kruss takes the five explanations given for the four species and uses them to create  modern principles of faith that emphasize multiplicity, depth, and complexity.

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Credits

Rabbi David Levin-Kruss - Faculty Host

Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant

Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator

Adam Titcher – Executive Producer and Director of Digital Media

Death and Life: The Meaning of Yom Kippur According to the Rabbis

What is the link between afflicting one's soul on Yom Kippur and the day being the ultimate Shabbat? What do the Rabbis think are basic human needs? Why is the value of preserving life taught in the laws of Yom Kippur? In this podcast we will analyze some of the main of the mishnayot in the 8th chapter of Tractate Yoma.

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Credits

Rabbi Rahel Berkovits - Faculty Host

Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant

Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator

Adam Titcher – Executive Producer and Director of Digital Media

Death and Life: The Meaning of Yom Kippur According to the Rabbis

What is the link between afflicting one's soul on Yom Kippur and the day being the ultimate Shabbat? What do the Rabbis think are basic human needs? Why is the value of preserving life taught in the laws of Yom Kippur? In this podcast we will analyze some of the main of the mishnayot in the 8th chapter of Tractate Yoma.

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For more information about Pardes, visit our website www.pardes.org.il.

Credits

Rabbi Rahel Berkovits - Faculty Host

Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant

Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator

Adam Titcher – Executive Producer and Director of Digital Media

Vayelech and Shabbat Shuva: תשובה – Déjà Vu Perhaps?

Cultivating the spiritual practice of returning to, reclaiming & renewing a moment from our past; a moment deeply implanted in all of us at conception.

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Credits

Yiscah Smith - Faculty Host

Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant

Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator

Adam Titcher – Executive Producer and Director of Digital Media

Vayelech and Shabbat Shuva: תשובה – Déjà Vu Perhaps?

Cultivating the spiritual practice of returning to, reclaiming & renewing a moment from our past; a moment deeply implanted in all of us at conception.

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Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at: [email protected]. We appreciate you leaving us a review with 5-stars if you enjoy these podcasts.

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Credits

Yiscah Smith - Faculty Host

Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant

Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator

Adam Titcher – Executive Producer and Director of Digital Media

There is no story as rich and complex, as troubling and inspiring, as Akedat Yitzchak, the binding of Isaac which is the Torah reading for the second Morning of Rosh Hashanah. Akedat Yitzhak is a great story precisely because there are so many ways of understanding it. Like a dream, it can be understood and interpreted on many different levels and in ways that are contradictory and not at all mutually exclusive.

This Rosh Hashanah podcast is sponsored by Ricki and David Bernstein in memory of Ricki's parents, Beatrice and Murray Kirschblat, each a sole survivor of large families which perished in the Shoah.

So much to offer for the holidays, including our digital content on Rosh Hashana. For the holiday companion, podcast lists and other inspiring Torah please visit Pardes's Rosh Hashana digital page.

Credits:Rabbi Leon Morris - President of Pardes, Faculty and HostLarry Kluger - Creative ConsultantArlene Harel - Production CoordinatorAdam Titcher - Executive Producer and Director of Digital Media at Pardes

This podcast features a piyut known as עת שערי רצון (Et Shaare Ratzon) and this version is sung in the Sephardic traditional tunes. To listen to the full version, click here.

There is no story as rich and complex, as troubling and inspiring, as Akedat Yitzchak, the binding of Isaac which is the Torah reading for the second Morning of Rosh Hashanah. Akedat Yitzhak is a great story precisely because there are so many ways of understanding it. Like a dream, it can be understood and interpreted on many different levels and in ways that are contradictory and not at all mutually exclusive.

This Rosh Hashanah podcast is sponsored by Ricki and David Bernstein in memory of Ricki's parents, Beatrice and Murray Kirschblat, each a sole survivor of large families which perished in the Shoah.

So much to offer for the holidays, including our digital content on Rosh Hashana. For the holiday companion, podcast lists and other inspiring Torah please visit Pardes's Rosh Hashana digital page.

Credits:Rabbi Leon Morris - President of Pardes, Faculty and HostLarry Kluger - Creative ConsultantArlene Harel - Production CoordinatorAdam Titcher - Executive Producer and Director of Digital Media at Pardes

This podcast features a piyut known as עת שערי רצון (Et Shaare Ratzon) and this version is sung in the Sephardic traditional tunes. To listen to the full version, click here.

Nitzavim: Redemption and Return

Are we waiting for God for Redemption, or is God waiting for us? Nitzavim charts out our national redemption. We shall study two models of redemption - in Deuteronomy and Leviticus - and see how the insights we glean can inspire the upcoming period of Teshuva (repentance).

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Credits

Rabbi Alex Israel - Faculty Host

Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant

Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator

Adam Titcher – Executive Producer

Nitzavim: Redemption and Return

Are we waiting for God for Redemption, or is God waiting for us? Nitzavim charts out our national redemption. We shall study two models of redemption - in Deuteronomy and Leviticus - and see how the insights we glean can inspire the upcoming period of Teshuva (repentance).

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Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at: [email protected]. We appreciate you leaving us a review with 5-stars if you enjoy these podcasts.

For more information about Pardes, visit our website www.pardes.org.il.

Credits

Rabbi Alex Israel - Faculty Host

Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant

Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator

Adam Titcher – Executive Producer

Satan: Adversary, Tempter, Exposer of Truth

In this week's podcast we will look at the model of reward and punishment as set out in the parashat of Ki Tavo and compare it to the model set out by Satan in the book of Job which conflicts with Deuteronomy. In the end we will tie it all to Abraham, the Akeida, the shofar and Rosh Hashana!

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For more information about Pardes, visit our website www.pardes.org.il.

Credits

Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash - Faculty Host

Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant

Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator

Adam Titcher – Executive Producer