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Welcome to The Jewish Hour with Rabbi Finman, for October 4, 2020. In this episode, Rabbi Finman talks to Brian Siegel about the big changes being considered at “The JCC of Metropolitan Detroit in West Bloomfield“. How do you listen to The Jewish Hour? You have a lot of options you know? iTunes, Spotify, Google […]
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Welcome to the Two Hundred and Tenth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 55. We return to legal material on today’s page, defining the boundary of a city as the straight edge extending from the farthest usable human habitation on each edge of the town. […]
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Welcome to the Two Hundred and Ninth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 54. This page is full of great rabbinic homilies about the power of Torah study, including astonishingly erotic images of the Torah, and an imagined account of how Moses and Aaron taught […]
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Rabbis Michael Knopf and Jesse Olitzky are lifelong friends, pop culture fanboys, and lovers of all things Jewish. Join them every other week for a conversation about what’s going on in pop culture from a Jewish perspective and about Judaism through the lens of pop culture. On Erev Rosh Hashanah, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader […]
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Welcome to the Two Hundred and Eighth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 53. Today’s page is a mainly aggadic (non-legal) collection of homilies about successful Torah study. We learn that if people want to become successful students, they should be sure to articulate their […]
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Welcome to the Two Hundred and Seventh episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 52. Talmudic law places a great deal of weight on a person’s intention. Merely we setting out a step or two down the stairs may be sufficient to establish the legal status […]
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With Election Day rapidly approaching, there are many issues of concern to each voter before they cast their ballot. But the Jewish voter is not monolithic. In each episode of “Behind the Ballot Box: Jewish Values and Our Vote,” Rabbi Jesse Olitzky speaks to rabbis and Jewish communal professionals about a specific issue at stake […]
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Welcome to the Two Hundred and Sixith episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 51. The Torah commands that one “keep far from falsehood. ” Yet today’s Talmud page proposes a strange compromise with the truth: Rabbah is said to invoke a teaching from Rabbi Yossi […]
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Welcome to the Two Hundred and Fifth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky looks at Masechet Eruvin Daf 50. The rules of rabbinic discourse hold that “Tannaim” – sages of the Mishnaic era, ending around 220 CE – are more authoritative than “Amoraim” – post-Mishnaic sages who appear in the […]
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This week’s episode can be summed up in two words: we’re f*cked. Brad and Ateven discuss the latest developments in Trump’s war on American democracy and they also take a look at the recent controversy with Member of Congress Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and the legacy of the late prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin. You […]
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