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2021 Pardes from Jerusalem

Each week a different Pardes faculty member uses Torah, Talmud and other Jewish texts to explain themes from the weekly portion.

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Crises & Kings: David and Goliath

Posted by Michael Hattin
on July 29, 2021

Ekev 5781 – Memory as a constructive process

Posted by Mike Feuer
on July 26, 2021

Crises & Kings: The Unlikely Election of David

Posted by Michael Hattin
on July 26, 2021

Crises & Kings: Shaul’s Undoing

Posted by Michael Hattin
on July 22, 2021
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VaEtchanan 5781 – It’s Only Holy Because You Don’t Own It

Posted by Tovah Leah Nachmani
on July 22, 2021

Crises & Kings: Yonatan’s Steadfastness

Posted by Michael Hattin
on July 19, 2021
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Devarim 5781: The Words of Moses — The Torah’s First “Translation”

Posted by Leon Morris
on July 12, 2021

Crises & Kings: Shaul’s Tragic Lapse

Posted by Michael Hattin
on July 5, 2021
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Matot-Masei 5781: Finding Safety Within the Cities of Refuge

Posted by Yiscah Smith
on July 5, 2021

9 days. 9 podcasts. Is God our Judge, our Enemy, or our Source of Faith? Three Perspectives from Eicha

Posted by Alex Israel
on July 5, 2021

9 days. 9 podcasts. Devarim and Tisha B’Av: The Date of Moshe’s Death

Posted by Michael Hattin
on July 5, 2021

9 days. 9 podcasts. Abraham and Job: When Bad Things Happen to Good Biblical Characters

Posted by Judy Klitsner
on July 5, 2021

9 days. 9 podcasts. “That’s Alright, Dear. I’ll Sit in the Dark” Why Do We Do It? How Can We Change It?

Posted by Meesh Hammer-Kossoy
on July 5, 2021

9 days. 9 podcasts. Fasting during a pandemic

Posted by Levi Cooper
on July 5, 2021

9 days. 9 podcasts. Tisha B’av: Kamza and Bar Kamza

Posted by Meir Schweiger
on July 5, 2021

9 days. 9 podcasts. Trusting Our Children When They Can’t Be Trusted: Textual Paradigms and Modern Wisdom

Posted by Tovah Leah Nachmani
on July 5, 2021

9 days. 9 podcasts. How to Restore Unity to a Fragmented World: “Loving one’s fellow as oneself”

Posted by Yiscah Smith
on July 5, 2021

9 Days. 9 Podcasts. The Three Weeks: What Being Broken has to Add

Posted by Mike Feuer
on July 5, 2021

Crises & Kings: Retrospect for Shmuel

Posted by Michael Hattin
on July 1, 2021
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Pinchas 5781: Leadership Lessons

Posted by Alex Israel
on June 29, 2021

Crises & Kings: In Those Days there was a King in Israel

Posted by Michael Hattin
on June 28, 2021

Crises & Kings: A Tentative Coronation

Posted by Michael Hattin
on June 24, 2021
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Balak 5781: The Strange Case of the Talking Donkey

Posted by Michael Hattin
on June 22, 2021

Crises & Kings: In Search of Donkeys

Posted by Michael Hattin
on June 21, 2021

Crises & Kings: The King’s Law

Posted by Michael Hattin
on June 17, 2021
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Chukat 5781 – Real Leaders Fail

Posted by Mike Feuer
on June 14, 2021

Crises & Kings: The Clamor for a King

Posted by Michael Hattin
on June 14, 2021

Crises & Kings: The Ideal Judge

Posted by Michael Hattin
on June 10, 2021

Crises & Kings: The Philistines Chastened

Posted by Michael Hattin
on June 7, 2021
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Korach 5781: For the sake of heaven

Posted by Nechama Goldman Barash
on June 6, 2021

Crises & Kings: The Israelite Defeated

Posted by Michael Hattin
on June 3, 2021
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Shelach 5781 – Fixing our Broken Compasses

Posted by Tovah Leah Nachmani
on June 1, 2021

Crises & Kings: Shmuel’s Coming of Age

Posted by Michael Hattin
on May 31, 2021

Crises & Kings: The Crimes of the Priests

Posted by Michael Hattin
on May 27, 2021
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Beha’alotecha 5781 – A Time To Step Up and a Time to Step Down

Posted by David Levin-Kruss
on May 24, 2021

Crises & Kings: Chana’s Triumph

Posted by Michael Hattin
on May 23, 2021

Crises & Kings: Introduction – The Backdrop of the Book of Judges

Posted by Michael Hattin
on May 20, 2021
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Naso 5781 – Birkat Kohanim: A Life of Service

Posted by Michael Emerson
on May 20, 2021
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Bamidbar and Shavuot 5781: Flags, Identity and Perfection

Posted by Meesh Hammer-Kossoy
on May 11, 2021
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Behar Bechukotai 5781 – Cultivating Tranquility and Calmness of the Heart

Posted by Yiscah Smith
on May 3, 2021
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Emor 5781 – We Can all Educate

Posted by Alex Israel
on April 28, 2021
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Posted by Yiscah Smith
on April 19, 2021
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Acharei Mot-Kedoshim 5781: The Holiness of the Land

Posted by Michael Hattin
on April 19, 2021

Yom HaZikaron/Yom HaAtzmaut 5781: Recognizing, Honoring and Cultivating Israel’s “Radical Otheness.”

Posted by Yiscah Smith
on April 12, 2021

Tazria Metzora 5781 – the Messiness of Life

Posted by Mike Feuer
on April 12, 2021
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Shemini 5781 – Vayidom Aharon: Learning to Live With the Unimaginable

Posted by Michael Emerson
on April 6, 2021
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Passover 5781: How The Rabbis Saved Passover

Posted by Nechama Goldman Barash
on March 22, 2021
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Tzav 5781 – Shabbat HaGadol – Freedom and Letting Go of Control

Posted by Tovah Leah Nachmani
on March 22, 2021
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Vayikra 5781: Because I Want to: The Semi-Regimented Spiritual Models of Olot, Menachot and Zevach Shelamim

Posted by Meesh Hammer-Kossoy
on March 16, 2021
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Vayakhel Pekudei 5781 – The Altar of Sacrifice

Posted by Michael Hattin
on March 9, 2021
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Ki Tissa 5781: Parashat Parah – A tale of two cows

Posted by Mike Feuer
on March 1, 2021
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Tetzaveh 5781 – Actualizing the Potential of a Soul’s Mission

Posted by Yiscah Smith
on February 23, 2021
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Purim 5781: Masks, Disguise and Identity

Posted by Alex Israel
on February 22, 2021

Terumah 5781: Shabbat Zachor, the Mitzvah of Genocide

Posted by David Levin-Kruss
on February 14, 2021

Mishpatim 5781: And They Saw the God of Israel? Language, Allegory and Representation

Posted by Leon Morris
on February 8, 2021
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Yitro 5781: “Do Not Go Near a Woman”: But Didn’t We All Stand at Sinai?

Posted by Judy Klitsner
on January 31, 2021
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Beshalach 5781: Seeing is believing

Posted by Mike Feuer
on January 25, 2021
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Bo 5781: Engaging with Emuna

Posted by Tovah Leah Nachmani
on January 19, 2021

Too Jewish Podcast: Interview with Rabbi Michael Swirsky, founder of the Pardes Insititute of Jewish Studies

Posted by Adam Titcher
on January 13, 2021
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VaEra 5781 – Midrashic Women in Va’Era

Posted by Nechama Goldman Barash
on January 12, 2021
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Shemot 5781: Moshe’s Choice

Posted by Michael Hattin
on January 3, 2021