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Episode Fourteen: Va’eira

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore Exodus, Chapter Six, Verse Twelve, and the portion of Va’era.
This parsha, deals with the choosing of Moses by God to be the spokesperson, and Moses’s ambivalence is this role. Moses says that he has “Aral Sifatayim”. But what do those words mean?
A literal traslation is that he has “uncircumcised” lips. These are words that surely need some unpacking. Do the words mean tongue-tied? or with a lisp, or was there something deeper, were his lips “sealed” or truly “uncircumcised”?

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Episode Twenty-Three: How To Emulate God

In Episode Twenty-Three of The Tisch Rabbi Michael Rose Knopf continues to explore Moses Cordovero’s Tomer Devorah. Each week Rabbi Knopf meets with his dedicated students at Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley, PA, where he serves as Assistant Rabbi, for this wonderful learning experience. http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/jcastnetwork.com/storage/Tisch/023.mp3Podcast: Download

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Two Jews On Haywire

I knew I was going to love ‘Haywire’ directed by Steven Soderbergh from the first scene. A girl walks into a coffee shop in the middle of nowhere. She sits down…blows on her hands to warm them. The waitress takes her order. A few seconds later, a man comes in, sits down opposite her. They […]

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Episode Twenty-One: I Get Lonely Sometimes

In the twenty-first episode of The JCast Journey, host Darone Ruskay talks about where he has been for the past few weeks, and why there has been no new show) as well as some of the intraspection that he did during the holiday season. In a frank monologue, Darone talks about how difficult it is […]

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Episode Thirteen: Shemot

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore Exodus, Chapter One, Verse 19, and the portion of Shemot.
This parsha, is the first in the book of Shemot (Exodus) and deals with the birth of Moses. Verse Nineteen focuses on a comment by the Jewish midwives, in which they indicate that the Jewish women, unlike their Egyptian counterparts seem to give birth before they arrive.
The translations in question is that of Chayot which is translated in a wide range of ways, from simply “Vigorous” to a much more inflammatory “Animals.”

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Episode Twenty-Two: How To Emulate God

In Episode Twenty-Two of The Tisch Rabbi Michael Rose Knopf continues to explore Chapter Three of Moses Cordovero’s Tomer Devorah. This is the first episode of The Tisch that is a part of JCast Network, however all previous episodes are available for download here or on iTunes. Each week Rabbi Knopf meets with his dedicated students at […]

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