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  • Day 60: Ayelet Hoffmann Libson: Sacred Time in Human Hands
    Day 60 | Rosh Hashanah

    What happens when the court’s ruling and the moon seem to tell different stories? Ayelet Hoffmann Libson explores why the rabbis gave judges the final word on when a month begins.

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    41 min
  • Day 59: A Home in Jewish Time
    Day 59: Rosh Hashanah 

    From a dispute over Yom Kippur to calendars drawn up in concentration camps, Jews keep finding ways to mark the months together.


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    11 min
  • Day 58: Nomads in Time
    Day 58 | Rosh Hashanah 

    When the future presses down on the present, the Jewish calendar offers us a home in time.

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    11 min
  • Day 57: Who We Are and Who We’re Becoming
    Day 57 | Rosh Hashanah 

    Some days we feel full. Other days we see only a sliver of ourselves. Jewish time makes room for both. 

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    13 min
  • Day 56: How the Jewish Calendar Became a Guinness World Record
    Day 56 | Rosh Hashanah

    Twelve lunar months leave us about eleven days short of a solar year. What do we do with those eleven days?

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    11 min
  • Day 55: Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky: Learning in My Rebbe’s Voice
    Day 55 | Beitzah 

    Nearly thirty years after ninth grade, Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin reunites with the rebbe whose voice he still hears when he learns Talmud.

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    39 min
  • Day 54: Where I Am or Where I Come From?
    Day 54 | Beitzah 

    Jews in the diaspora once kept two days of Yom Tov because word of the new moon could take weeks to reach them. Why do we still keep both?

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    14 min
  • Day 53: A Taste of Two Futures
    Day 53 | Beitzah

    Why can we cook on Yom Tov but not on Shabbos? The answer lies in the future each holy day invites us to taste.

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    10 min
  • Day 52: Half for God, Half for You
    Day 52 | Beitzah

    Making room for God and making room for others begin at the same Yom Tov table.

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    10 min
  • Day 51: An Egg’s Potential, a Holy Day’s Promise
    Day 51 | Beitzah

    Fresh food, a phone set aside, and the possibility of discovering something new about ourselves. Tractate Beitzah explores how we make room for a holy day.

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    13 min

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The first accessible journey into the heart of Judaism.

Forty weeks. Ten minute episodes Monday through Thursday — plus a longer Friday interview if you want to go deeper.

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