The Oral Talmud
de Institute for the Next Jewish Future
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Episode 73: Taking it Too Far
Episode 73: Taking it Too Far
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An exploration of the Talmud through the “traditionally radical” lens pioneered by Benay Lappe. Whether you are a beginner to Talmud study or a long-time learner, by listening in on Benay Lappe’s study partnership with Dan Libenson as they explore foundational stories and material from the Talmud, you will discover the how-to manual that the ancient Rabbis left behind for future generations to help us re-imagine a new version of Judaism after the previous version “crashes.”
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- Episode 73: Taking it Too Far · 1 h 2 min · Épisode 73“The Talmud can be understood as a case book or a teaching tool and… the Talmud may very intentionally be leaving out good proofs because the whole point is to test the students…
- Episode 72: When Comedy Becomes Tragedy · 1 h 6 min · Épisode 72“It’s intentionally a joke. And the tragedy is to imagine how this sugya might be studied and nobody's laughing. If you miss the joke, you're actually missing what's being…
- Episode 71: Hard Cases Make Bad Law · 1 h 2 min · Épisode 71“Hard cases make bad law. You don't take the existence of theoretical hard cases that may rarely occur but do occur and make law based on those hard cases. You say, ‘Yeah…
- Episode 70: Cultivated Common Sense · 1 h 2 min · Épisode 70“Don't think for a minute that the Torah actually meant money at the beginning. It actually did mean an eye and we changed it because that's what we do. That's what our project…
- Episode 69: Juggling Arguments · 1 h 5 min · Épisode 69“The Talmud has one message, one and only one message, and it gives it in 14,000 different cases, and that one message is, reader, you are tasked with making the tradition as…
- Episode 68: Thou Doth Protest Too Much · 60 min · Épisode 68“The entire Talmud is a response to the bind that we got ourselves into before the rabbis ever existed by claiming that our God writes books. That was the mistake of history…
- Episode 67: Sleight of Hand · 55 min · Épisode 67“ Imagine you're reading some magician textbook, how to do magic… the magician is saying since he transferred the coin from his right hand to his left hand the coin disappeared…
- Episode 66: Rules of Interpretation · 1 h 0 min · Épisode 66“This is a really great text to be learning because it shows that something as clear as day in the Torah doesn't mean what the words purport to mean. That doesn't stop the rabbis…
- Episode 65: Attractive Instability · 1 h 0 min · Épisode 65“The process that made the eye for an eye a dead letter is exactly the same process that could be used to make the Leviticus against homosexuality a dead letter, and that's what…
- Episode 64: Showing Their Hand with Menachem Fisch · 60 min · Épisode 64“ I'm always asked, 'You're obviously an anti-traditionalist, so why are you going back to the Talmud all the time?' An anti-traditionalist doesn't need an authoritative history…
- Episode 63: Calculating Damages · 1 h 4 min · Épisode 63“ When people say, ‘What makes something Jewish?’ A lot of times you're looking for some substantive answer to that, emphasizing the value of tikkun olam or whatever it might be…
- Episode 62: The Rabbis and Gender with Gwynn Kessler · 1 h 14 min · Épisode 62“[The Rabbis] show us, and texts from antiquity across the board show us, that any silly political insistence that there are only two sexes and there always have been, is just…
- Episode 61: Thinking Like a Jewish Lawyer · 60 min · Épisode 61“ Even if you accept that we are nothing compared to Moses, nevertheless, we're sitting on the shoulders of Moses and everyone who sat on his shoulders. So we're actually having…
- Episode 60: The Bottom of the Toolbox · 1 h 2 min · Épisode 60“ I'm really starting to land somewhere for me with this text. I think this is an instruction manual for how to apply that very radical and broad directive of prioritizing human…
- Episode 59: Is Dignity Greater than Torah? · 1 h 1 min · Épisode 59“It is preferable to break, violate a prohibition in the Torah, anything the Torah says don't do, you can actually go ahead and do it if by not doing it you would cause someone…
- Episode 58: Living After the End of the World · 1 h 4 min · Épisode 58“That's what Rabbi Yitzchak is saying, once the temple is destroyed, we are all in a state of unhealthy living, and our desires can only be satisfied in forbidden ways.” - Benay…
- Episode 57: The Lovesick Man · 1 h 3 min · Épisode 57“ The issue here isn't sex. The issue here is objectification. So that can take place in a sexual context, but it can also take place in other contexts. So this potentially gives…
- Episode 56: Children of Prophets · 1 h 4 min · Épisode 56“ There's no question in my mind that retelling, reshaping the contours of the Jewish story is what you do. That's the most Jewish thing of all Jewish things.” - Benay Lappe
- Episode 55: The Wisdom of Crowds · 1 h 1 min · Épisode 55“The rabbis ultimately see us being the Rabbi Akiva character, that everyone is an innovator, an upgrader, a potentially radical rewriter. That's the story that they're telling…
- Episode 54: Who Owns Torah? · 1 h 1 min · Épisode 54“ People who learn the tradition own that tradition and therefore can do with it what an owner can do with what an owner owns. If you own your house, you can knock down walls…
