Rav Mike is on the road and taking time to reflect on the need for narrative therapy in many nations. The events in Charlottesville pose a lot of questions of how a nation which contains many narratives can learn to tell a story that can unite rather than divide. They also raise a red flag about the dangers of rewriting history.

One of the hallmarks of the early modern era is mobility, which means we will be jumping around a bit. This episode follows the story of the exiles upon their arrival in Italy. They take with them a messianic hope that the end is near, and they find their the spirit of Italian humanism. When the two unite, new horizons will open for Christian and Jew alike.

Have you ever wondered why there are shelves full of legal books on kashrut, but only the rare volume on social justice? In this episode Rav Aaron and Rav Mike discuss the question of why some areas of law are neglected, and what to do about it.

When the Jews of Ashkenaz moved east, they brought their customs and language with them. And what they found waiting in Poland was a refugee that would allow them to prosper for hundreds of years.

You can tell a historian by where he begins and ends his story.Here is a prologue to season two, which begins at the Expulsion from Spain and ends at the rise of the State of Israel. The question is - why is this episode about the 3rd Temple?

Rav Aaron and Rav Mike didn't make it onto any blacklists, but their attitudes on Jewish peoplehood are far from traditional. Tune in for a conversation that engages the challenges of Am Yisrael today, as well as offering some solutions.

The Expulsion from Spain marks a turning point in Jewish history. In addition to a national trauma which evokes the memory of the Temple's destruction, it challenges the model of identity which has served the Jews for nearly 2000 years. In this epilogue, Rav Mike takes a look back at where we have been in order to raise some thoughts about where we are headed. Stay tuned for season two!

Is the recently struggle over pluralistic prayer at the kotel a family quarrel of the beginnings of a break up. Rav Aaron and Rav Mike talk Israel/diaspora issues and the the spiritual underpinnings of the struggle in this sacred space.

A lot more happened in 1492 than Columbus sailing the ocean blue. Upon their marriage, Ferdinand and Isabella are determined to make newborn Spain a unified country, which means that there is no place for Am Yisrael. The tools of Inquisition and war will earn them the title of the Catholic Monarchs, and will birth the means of oppression employed by totalitarian societies down through the ages.

The forced conversion of tens of thousands of Jews may have seemed like a great victory for Christianity, but in reality these conversos were a ticking bomb in the heart of Christian culture. In this episode Rav Mike speaks about the lead up to the great expulsion - the last great Christian/Jewish debate of the Middle Ages, the first historical appearance of racial Jew hatred and the civil war threatening to tear apart the Iberian Peninsula.