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Ketubot No.3: Contractual RelationshipsHow did the monetary guarantee of the ketubah develop? What light can similar contracts from the Ancient Near East and modern pre-marital financial agreements such as the pre-nup shed on the nature of the ketubah, including the question of whether it is binding?
Prof. Michael L. Satlow is Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies at Brown University. He holds a Ph.D. from JTS, and is an author of numerous works including the book Jewish Marriage in Antiquity, and the chapter “Reconsidering the Rabbinic Ketubah Payment” in The Jewish Family in Antiquity.
This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast S15E03. Listen here: https://interleaved.buzzsprout.com/925780/11552590-ketubot-no-3-contractual-relationships
Ketubot No.2: Halakhic WomanCW// sexual assault/r*pe
What do Talmudic texts about vaginal bleeding and sexual assault tell us about how the rabbis perceived women’s humanity and subjectivity? Is a true gender-egalitarian halakha even possible?
Dr. Rebecca Kamholz holds a PhD in rabbinics from Yale University. Her areas of focus are gender theory and legal texts about women in the Babylonian Talmud. Her dissertation, Virginity in the Babylonian Talmud: Sex, Identity, and Epistemology, focused on legal and cultural questions around the definition and verification of virginity in the Talmud.
This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast S15E02, listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/925780/episodes/11465046
Ketubot No.1: Body PoliticsCW// underage sex and sexual assault/r*pe
What is the rabbis' definition of virginity, and why is it so complicated? What does it tell us about their view of feminine subjectivity and sexuality?
Dr. Rebecca Kamholz holds a PhD in rabbinics from Yale University. Her areas of focus are gender theory and legal texts about women in the Babylonian Talmud. Her dissertation, Virginity in the Babylonian Talmud: Sex, Identity, and Epistemology, focused on legal and cultural questions around the definition and verification of virginity in the Talmud.
This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast S15E01, listen here: https://interleaved.buzzsprout.com/925780/11215777-ketubot-no-1-body-politics
Yevamot No.1: All in the FamilyWhat can levirate marriage teach us about ancient Jewish family structures? Why start Seder Nashim with death?
Hear from Dvora Weisberg, the Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Professor of Rabbinics, HUC-JIR Rabbinical School Director and Rabbinical Program Director in Los Angeles. She is the author of Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism, which explores the ancient rabbis’ understanding of family and familial relationships. Rabbi Dr. Weisberg also teaches frequently in informal settings, including adult education programs in congregations, several summers at the URJ Kallah and sessions for the CCAR and its regional conventions.
This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast S14E01, listen here: https://pod.fo/e/115f03
Chagigah No. 2: Out of the OrchardWho really was Elisha ben Avuyah, and why was he a mistake of rabbinic interpretation? How did he become a blank canvas for the Rabbis’ heretical anxieties?
Hear from Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein, the founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute, a nonprofit, international, UNESCO-sponsored interfaith organization. A noted scholar of Jewish studies, he has held academic posts at Tel Aviv University and has served as director of the Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha College, Jerusalem. Rabbi Dr. Goshen-Gottstein is the author or editor of many books including The Jewish Encounter with Hinduism, Jewish Theology and World Religions, and most recently, Interreligious Heroes: Role Models and Spiritual Exemplars for Interfaith Practice. His book, The Sinner and the Amnesiac: The Rabbinic Invention of Elisha ben Abuya and Eleazar ben Arach was published in 2000 by Stanford University Press.
Chagigah No.1: Talmudically Accurate AngelsHow did ancient Jews relate to angels? Who were these beings that inhabit the angelic realm?
Hear from Dr. Mika Ahuvia, associate professor of Classical Judaism in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her book On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture investigates conceptions of angels in foundational Jewish texts and ritual sources. Mika also co-edited the volume Placing Ancient Texts: the Rhetorical and Ritual Use of Space and has published book chapters and articles on ancient ritual-magic, gender and rabbinic literature, and late antique archeology. This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast S13E01. Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/10d689
Moed Katan No.1: People of the Black BookWhen, why, and how did the rabbis of the Talmud excommunicate people? How did they craft a narrative of powerlessness to invest themselves with more power?
Hear from Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy, Director of the Pardes Year Program at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Meesh has a PhD in Talmud from New York University, and her dissertation explored the ways in which the rabbis of the Talmud created a criminal punishment system. This sheet it meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast S12E01. Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/108a25
Taanit No.2: Tu B'Shvat or Not Tu B’ShvatHow is the climate a divine language? Why should you get to know a tree? Hear from Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman, a writer, activist, and song-leader in Boston. She serves as the Director of Professional Development at Hebrew College, and as a rabbinic consultant to Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action. She is a contributing author to Rooted & Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis, and her song “The Tide Is Rising”, which she co-wrote with her husband Yotam Schachter, has spread as an anthem in the climate movement. This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast (Bonus) S10E02: https://pod.fo/e/1056cd
Adina Karp•1038 Views•January 17, 2022•Taanit,Trees,Climate Change,Tu B'Shvat,Rain,Daf Yomi,Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast
Megillah No.2: Layn ChangeWhat does an inclusive Megillah reading sound like? What could the future of layning be? Hear from Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe, Associate Rabba at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in Bronx, NY. A 2017 graduate of Yeshivat Maharat, she has taught many people women and girls to layn and is the voice of the JOFA Megillat Esther and Megillat Rut apps.
Adina Karp•1107 Views•January 7, 2022•Trop,Inclusion,JOFA,Cantillation,Women,Book of Esther,Layning,Megilla
Megillah No.1: The Whole MegillahWhy is the Sages’ exposition of the Book of Esther so imaginative? How do we avoid blurring the lines between Midrashic homilies and what’s actually written in the text?
Hear from Dr. Eliezer Segal, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics and Religion at the University of Calgary. He is widely published and some of his recent books include From Sermon to Commentary: Expounding the Bible in Talmudic Babylonia and Sanctified Seasons. Additionally he is the author of “The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary.” This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic podcast S11E01. Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/1015b2
Adina Karp•1992 Views•December 24, 2021•Daf Yomi,Book of Esther,Vashti,Proems,Esther,Midrash,Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast,Megillah,Pticha
Taanit No.1: Prayin' for the RainHow did the Sages of the Talmud understand the connection between rain and the Divine? How do talmudic stories impart ethical value? Dr. Jonathan Schofer is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, with affiliation in the Schustermann Center for Jewish Studies at The University at Texas at Austin. He has published work on the connections between law, theology, and ethics in canonical Jewish sources of late antiquity, including his first book is The Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic Ethics. His essay “Theology and Cosmology in Rabbinic Ethics: The Pedagogical Significance of Rainmaking Narratives” is the groundwork for a chapter in another book of his, titled Confronting Vulnerability: The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics. This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast S10E01. Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/fc9da
Rosh Hashanah No.2: Shofar, So GoodWhat makes the shofar unique among Biblical instruments? How can a commandment to hear teach us to listen? Hear from Dr. Jonathan L. Friedmann , a scholar and practitioner of Jewish music. He serves as a pulpit cantor, he composes and arranges music, is a researcher in the area of the history and functions of synagogue song, and teaches at the Academy for Jewish Religion California. He has numerous books on music and religion and was co-editor of “Qol Tamid: The Shofar in Ritual, History, and Culture.” This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast S09E02. Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/f5f40
Rosh Hashanah No.1: Yidden in the StarsIs there mazal for the people of Israel? How did the Sages relate to the stars? Hear from Lorelai Kude, Jewish astrologer and scholar of astrology about signs, sefirot, and knowing your self. This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast S09E01. Listen here: https://interleaved.buzzsprout.com/925780/9423936-rosh-hashanah-no-1-give-me-a-sign
Beitzah No.2: Meat Your MakerWhat exists at the intersection of farming, rabbinics, and slaughterhouses? How can we care about where our food comes from? Hear from Naf Hanau, CEO and co-founder of Grow & Behold, a purveyor Glatt Kosher meat and chicken raised on pasture on family farms. This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast S08E02. Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/eb9d4
Beitzah No.1: Kol Nidre RevealHow did the Yom Kippur Machzor come to be? What’s the real story of Kol Nidre and U’Netaneh Tokef? Hear David Stern is the Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University discuss the machzor, minhag, piyyut, and prayer. This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast S08E01. Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/e6ca1
Adina Karp•1573 Views•September 12, 2021•Liturgy,Manuscript,Piyyut,Yom Kippur,Beitzah,Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast,וּנְתַנֶּה תֹּקֶף,Machzor,Daf Yomi
Sukkah No.4: A Song of Water and FireWhat is the Torah of music? How can we express our individuality through song while simultaneously singing together? Hear musician, song leader, and award-winning author Joey Weisenberg of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute discuss what this chapter has to teach us about music- both how to listen to the songs of our own hearts, and how to sing them together. This sheet is meant to accompany S07E04 of Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast. Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/e3858
Sukkah No.3: Lulav LanguagesThe four plant species of the lulav ritual, as interpreted by the Talmud, often come to us across long distances and from lands inhabited by indigenous peoples. Hear from Gabi Kirk, Ph.D. student at UC Davis explain why she and others see more in the ritual than these species. This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast S07E03. Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/e03ab
Sukkah No.2: Equal ProtectionIs the housing crisis really that complicated? How can we cultivate compassion within ourselves for our neighbors experiencing homelessness and displacement? Hear from Aaron Berc, a community organizer at Jewish Community Action. This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast S07E02. Listen here:
Sukkah No.1: The Schach’s the LimitIn the first chapter of our new Tractate the laws seem restrictive — but what if we looked at these limitations as an opportunity for creativity? Hear architect Noah Resnick reimagine the Sukkah on the season’s first episode. This sheet is meant to accompany Interleaved A Talmudic Podcast: S07E01. Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/dac8e
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