Ta Shma

Ta Shma

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Ta Shma episodes

  • Parashat Ki Tavo - "When You Enter the Land"
    Avital Hochstein. Land as a Place, Aspiration, or Outcome - Our parashah, as one can see already from its name, presents us with a particularly relevant challenge: What is the meaning of the phrase “when you enter the land,” and what are its ramifications in our day and age, in which life in the state of Israel, situated in the land of Israel, is a present, everyday reality for many Jews? What was the meaning of the phrase and what were its ramifications throughout the many generations in which Jews did not live in their land, or lived there, but with no sovereignty?
    12 min
  • Strains of Secularism: What To Do When the Talmud Is Too Radical
    Jason Rubenstein. What happens when we come accross ideas that appear secular at best - and heretical at worst - in our religious texts and traditions? How might these ideas reshape our religious worldview and understanding of God? Recorded live at our 2017 Summer Yom Iyyun, The Search for God: In Our Lives and in Our Communities
    1 hr 7 min
  • ? פרשת שופטים:היכן היתומים, האלמנות והגרים
    פרשת שופטים מתארת את המערך המדיני העתידי של עם ישראל לכשייכנס לארצו. זהו מערך המתאפיין בחופש כמעט מוחלט, כזה שבו ישנה התערבות רק במקרה של בעיה. לכאורה מדובר בתיאור אידילי, אך מי שמכיר את התורה ואת דרכה יבחין מיד כי בולטות בחסרונן דמויות חברתיות חלשות ומוחלשות – אשר באופן מפתיע אינן מוזכרות כלל לאורך הפרשה כולה. לא נמצאים כאן היתום והאלמנה, לא עניים ולא גרים, וגם לא מי שזקוקים לגואל. מה תפקידו של חֶסר זה דווקא בתיאור מערך חברתי ומדיני כה רחב?
    10 min
  • Parashat Shoftim - Where are the Orphans, Widows and Strangers?
    Avital Hochstein. On the Audible Silence in Parashat Shoftim - Parashat Shoftim describes the political structures for the Jewish nation, to be implemented once they enter their land. This is a system characterized by almost complete freedom, of the sort where interference occurs only in the case of a problem. To the observer, this would appear to be an idyllic description; however, anyone familiar with the Torah and its ways will immediately note the striking absence of socially weak and weakened personae who, surprisingly, remain wholly unmentioned throughout the course of the parashah. There are no orphans or widows, no poor or strangers, or any of those who require redemption. What is the role of this lack, specifically in the context of such a broad description of a social and political system?
    13 min
  • פרשת ראה :מקום משלהם – מקום משלו
    חלק גדול מספר דברים מוקדש לעיון חוזר בתקופת המדבר, אולם אל עיון זה מצטרפת גם התבוננות קדימה - וחלק לא מבוטל מן הספר מוקדש אל החיים בארץ. כזהו גם פרק יב בספר דברים, הפותח את חלקו הארי של הספר, המוקדש לחוקים. אל החוקים מתלוות תובנות גם לגבי משמעות המעבר לארץ, למקום אחד ומסוים.
    11 min

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