Can't Stop Scrolling
by Avidan Halivni and Rabbi Avigayil Halpern
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Chavruta Geometry with Rabbi Avigayil Halpern and Avidan Halivni
Chavruta Geometry with Rabbi Avigayil Halpern and Avidan Halivni
About this podcast
Can’t Stop Scrolling is a podcast for Torah teachers, Torah learners, Torah lovers, and the Torah-curious. Each week, Avidan and Rav Avigayil interview a millennial or Gen-Z Torah educator about their relationship to Torah, and learn a favorite text together. Come learn with us!
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Episodes
- Chavruta Geometry with Rabbi Avigayil Halpern and Avidan Halivni · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 10We wrap up the season with a conversation between Avigayil and Avidan about chavruta learning! We cover our chavruta origin story, what makes a chavruta work or flop, the…
- Dancing With Torah with Leah Kahn · 1 h 16 min · Season 2 Episode 9As is befitting for the time between Purim and Passover, this episode features a deep dive into the verses of the story of Esther through the lens of Leah's own "4 Questions"…
- The Expansiveness Inside the Mountain with Dr. Tova Hopemark · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 8In this episode, we talk about the multi-layered interpretive work of making theater about modern midrash, the potential of empty space, and if solo travel is liberating…
- Rabbinic Bibliomancy with dr. rafa kern · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 7dr. rafa kern joins the pod to offer his critique of Martin Buber's skills as a playwright, but more importantly to share poignant insights on making meaning of text study and of…
- "The God of Becoming" with Rabbi CB Souther · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 6Dogs in a perpetual state of wonder? Being an independent rabbi? A sense of newness every day? We wander towards the Burning Bush with Rabbi CB Souther, spiritual director and…
- “The Whole World is Torah” with Rabbi Matthew Ponak · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 5Rabbi Matthew Ponak teaches us about the Torah that is infused through everything, a return to the concept of “rav-chaver” (“friend-rabbi”) and juggling pumpkins. Primary Source…
- The Sea of Torah with Rabbi Joel Goldstein · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 4In this episode, Rabbi Joel Goldstein joins us to discuss if it is harder to work on a submarine or in a Jewish high school, parallels between baseball and Judaism, and…
- “Come on the Road with Me” with Rabbi Rachel Rosenbluth · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 3What Hebrew letter are you feeling most like today? We talk Tu B'Shvat, seasons, sleep, and yoga with Rabbi Bluth. Primary source: the letters Aleph א and Bet ב • Bluth's Tu…
- Chavruta with an Art Piece: Rabbi Arielle Stein · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 2In this episode, we learn about Yiddish poetry and the parallels between art school critique and Torah learning with rabbi, visual artist, and Instagram star Rabbi Arielle Stein…
- "Torah Can Hold That!" with Rabbi Lauren Tuchman · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 1In the first episode of Season Two, we learn from and with Rabbi Lauren Tuchman about finding ourselves in the text, the perils and possibilities of religious authority, and…
- Torah as the Spiritual in the Material: Avidan Halivni · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 10A Chasid and a Litvak sit down to talk about why Purim might be a holier day than Yom Kippur. Plus some reflections on ten episodes of Can't Stop Scrolling! What - or who - do…
- Torah as Our Stories: Rabbi Miriam Lorie · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 9If there’s no seat at Kiddush for you, bring a folding chair. Rabbi Miriam Lorie teaches us about the Talmudic rabbis’ radical revision of the character of Hannah, the importance…
- Torah as Invitation: Rabbi Samantha Frank · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 8Have you ever thought that maybe the reason Creation took so long is that the universe was too hot and that God had to blow on the primordial soup of the universe to cool it…
- Torah as the Whole of the Many: Rabbi Rachael Pass · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 7Rabbi Rachael Pass's house may be haunted, but that won't stop her from teaching the Torah of Wicked (where do you think wickedness come from??) or helping adults reengage with…
- Torah as Philosophy: Hanna Sedletsky · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 6We have all lived in Berlin because we are super cool on this podcast. Hanna Sedletsky, a post-Soviet queer Jewish educator, talks with us about teaching Torah to people new to…
- Torah as Bridge: Rabbi Lara Haft Yom-Tov · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 5Where in your body does your anxiety live? If you have no anxiety at all, will you teach us how? We talk with Rabbi Lara Haft Yom-Tov about balancing between different values…
- Torah as Language: Aron Wander · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 4In this episode, we encounter the Torah of autocorrect and of chronic pain, and when Torah can and can’t speak to our deepest questions - especially in the moments when it seems…
- Torah as a Seed: Laynie Soloman · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 3Laynie Soloman chats with us about the Torah of Magneto, falling in love with Talmud, and ideal cupcake-eating strategies. Primary Source: Bamidbar Rabbah 19:7
- Torah as Kaleidoscope: Rabbi Sivan Rotholz · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 2If a rabbi tells a joke, is it a rabbi joke? Rabbi Sivan Rotholz chats with Avidan and Avigayil about how anger relates to Torah, the importance of poetry, and informed choice…
- Torah as Relationship: Rabbi Avigayil Halpern and Avidan Halivni · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 1Who are we?? Why are we doing this? Why do we love the Torah? Is gossip okay?? Primary Source: Pachad Yitzchak Shavuot 13
