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Truth, History, and the Great Man Theory
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Your weekly dose of Jewish wit and wisdom. Each week Rabbi Abba Perelmuter, Chayaleah Sufrin, and Jay Covitz explore Jewish history, culture, and writings. Whether you're a relapsed Jew or an old pro there is something for us all to learn.
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- Truth, History, and the Great Man Theory · 56 minIf history has always been written by the victors, and anyone with AI can now rewrite it, how do we figure out what actually happened? And does anybody really go looking for the…
- Death of the Prophet: The Life of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Part 4 · 36 minThis is our fourth and final episode of our series on the life of Ze’ev Jabotinsky In this episode, we get into: • The 1936 evacuation plan to move a million and a half Jews out…
- Leaving Antisemitism Behind with Lucas Gage · 1 h 27 minThree years ago, if you’d told us we’d spend October 7 interviewing Lucas Gage, we’d have laughed. So would he. Lucas is a former Marine who did two tours in Iraq, then spent 14…
- Murder in Tel Aviv: The Life of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Part 3 · 23 minThis episode starts off with a murder on a Tel Aviv beach, how that murder would fundamentally change the future of the Zionist movement, Jabotinsky’s role within it. In this…
- King Solomon's Book of Proverbs · 1 h 0 minHashem offers a 12-year-old king anything he wants. Wealth, power, conquest, all on the table. Solomon asks for wisdom, and nearly three thousand years later we’re still reading…
- 15 Years for Defending Jews: Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Part 2 · 20 minPicking up where we left him last time…Jabotinsky is in a refugee camp in Egypt with 12,000 Jewish refugees, who had been expelled from Palestine by the Turks. He surveys the…
- What Do Diaspora Jews Owe Israel · 59 minIn this episode we discuss • Compulsory service vs. a Second Temple style tax to Jerusalem, and why the Law of Return covers even Noam Chomsky • Israelis flying home to vote…
- "Why Don't You All Go to Hell?" The Life of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Part 1 · 24 minZe’ev Jabotinsky could have been a great Russian novelist. Everyone, including the Russian novelists, said so. Instead, a spring evening in Odessa in 1903 set him on the hardest…
- Sour Milk, Shots of Gin, and Dual Loyalty · 1 h 3 minThe Rabbi’s Ten Days of Repentance began with a bowl of cornflakes topped with rancid milk, which somehow leads to him doing shots of Gin on Simchas Torah…with an MIT fraternity…
- Our Sins of Omission and Commission · 1 h 3 minIn honor of Yom Kippur, we talk about two kinds of sins we commit. Sins of omissionand sins of commission. Sins of omission are the things we should have done and didn’t, and…
- No Apologies: Antisemitism and Rosh Hashanah · 1 h 0 minJay has been doing some reading, and he opens this week with an essay he refuses to attribute until the Rabbi guesses. From there the Rabbi gets on a roll about Mark Ruffalo…
- Jonah Ghosted God. It Did Not Go Well. · 48 minJonah gets swallowed by a fish, and that is the part everybody remembers, but the real story is what happens after: Nineveh repents, Hashem forgives, and Jonah sits down under a…
- Listener Questions: Elul, Damages, and Israel · 58 minSome weeks we pick the topics. This week you picked them for us. The Rabbi opens by informing both of us that the frivolity is over, because Elul has arrived and we have thirty…
- Planning a Chabad Wedding · 40 minIt is just CL and I this week, because we wanted to give her a chance to speak this week (sorry, Rabbi). Her oldest son got engaged a few weeks ago, there has already been an…
- The Book of Deuteronomy: Moses' Last Words · 1 h 6 minMoses has five weeks left. He starts talking on the first of Shevat, he dies on the seventh of Adar, and in between he delivers the longest, most repetitive, most urgent speech…
- Parenting Adult Children: Boundaries & Grace · 1 h 3 minNobody warns you that the hardest parenting years might come after your kids are grown. We opened with a story Jay picked up in a Delta Lounge, a man quietly putting on tefillin…
- Lament This: The Book of Lamentations · 1 h 4 minTisha B’Av is coming, and before we sit on the floor with the lights low, we’re doing our homework. This week we open the Book of Lamentations, the scroll Jeremiah wrote as…
- Matot-Masei: Vows, Tribes & Cities of Refuge · 1 h 1 minThe Rabbi opens with a request: can we please put a moratorium on the word “anti-Semitism” until next July 4th? (Spoiler: no, but we try.) Then we celebrate some family news and…
- Yahrzeit, Kaddish & the 17th of Tammuz · 50 minSome episodes start light. This one starts with a candle. We begin with Jay’s yahrzeit for his mom, twelve years gone and still deeply missed, and the Rabbi walks us through what…
- Hillel & Shammai: Judaism's Dynamic Duo · 1 h 5 minWhat makes two rabbis who disagreed about almost everything the most celebrated pair in Jewish history? This week we sit down with Hillel and Shammai, the original dynamic duo…
