Shir HaShirim #2 and #3: springtime in the land of Israel, lovers longing for one another, but rivals and destructive foxes lie around them.
Audio from Aliza Libman Baronofsky on daughters of Jerusalem in ch.3. Text here:
https://www.sefaria.org/Song_of_Songs.3?lang=bi

Shir HaShirim #2 and #3: springtime in the land of Israel, lovers longing for one another, but rivals and destructive foxes lie around them.
Audio from me in ch2 pulling out some of the key features of Shir HaShirim from verses in our chapter. Text here: https://www.sefaria.org/Song_of_Songs.2?lang=bi

Text for this chapter can be found here: ⁠https://www.sefaria.org/Song_of_Songs.1?lang=bi⁠

Our first audio is from my good friend Hakham Yonatan Rahmani who shares an introduction to the work as well as beautiful chanting and interpretations of the first verses.

Today is a big day. We finish Iyov and begin Shir HaShirim, the first of the megillot. Here's a thought - Iyov, a book so great, heavy and dreadful about a man who suffers - is book ended by two of the ultimate love poems celebrating different aspects of femininity, Eishet Chayil in Mishlei 30, and Shir HaShirim.
To conclude the final mighty chapter of Job, we celebrate with two superb recordings from two of our fantastic teachers - Calev Ben Dor and Rabbi Dr Lebens (who also provides a bonus one). Two very different recordings a tribute to both the teachers and the text - אחת דבר אלוקים, שתים זו שמעתי

Today is a big day. We finish Iyov and begin Shir HaShirim, the first of the megillot. Here's a thought - Iyov, a book so great, heavy and dreadful about a man who suffers - is book ended by two of the ultimate love poems celebrating different aspects of femininity, Eishet Chayil in Mishlei 30, and Shir HaShirim.
To conclude the final mighty chapter of Job, we celebrate with two superb recordings from two of our fantastic teachers - Calev Ben Dor and Rabbi Dr Lebens (who also provides a bonus one). Two very different recordings a tribute to both the teachers and the text - אחת דבר אלוקים, שתים זו שמעתי

Text here:

Today is a big day. We finish Iyov and begin Shir HaShirim, the first of the megillot. Here's a thought - Iyov, a book so great, heavy and dreadful about a man who suffers - is book ended by two of the ultimate love poems celebrating different aspects of femininity, Eishet Chayil in Mishlei 30, and Shir HaShirim.
To conclude the final mighty chapter of Job, we celebrate with two superb recordings from two of our fantastic teachers - Calev Ben Dor and Rabbi Dr Lebens (who also provides a bonus one). Two very different recordings a tribute to both the teachers and the text - אחת דבר אלוקים, שתים זו שמעתי. Text here: https://www.sefaria.org/Job.42?lang=bi

Iyov #40 &41 - consider Iyov, says God, the Levitathon and the Behemoth.
Audio from a location where I can appreciate God's argument. Text here: https://www.sefaria.org/Job.40?lang=bi, https://www.sefaria.org/Job.41?lang=bi

Iyov #39 - God gives Iyov a description of the wild animals that populate our world - a response that could alternatively aim to overwhelm, humble or calm Iyov.
Ilana Stein brings all her love of zoology to our chapter including a wonderful story of the ostrich and Lord Rothschild to explain a peculiar detail. Her recording concludes with a deeply moving quote of Anne Frank about the restorative power of nature.
If the group will forgive my sharing of holiday snaps, we currently find ourselves standing at a 315ft 2,400 year old Redwood tree - likely alive when our sefer was written - and the chapters feel wonderfully relevant. In Anne Frank's words, time in nature alone with God is undoubtedly the ultimate solace. Text here: https://www.sefaria.org/Job.39?lang=bi

Greetings all from the lost coast of Northern California - an appropriately dramatic place for the climax of our book as God speaks to Job out of the whirlwind - where were you when I founded the earth. And who better than Rafi Addlestone to teach us this chapter. Text here: https://www.sefaria.org/Job.38?lang=bi

929 bonus: Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo completes his series on the Elihu chapters with a bonus recording on the book of *Iyov in the writings of Maimonides* - a hugely important topic. On behalf of the whole group, a huge thank you to Rabbi Shmalo for his great work on the Elihu chapters