Parashah Explorations
A weekly parashah lecture, focusing on a topic, generally halachic, relating to the parashah. This podcast is powered for free by Torahcasts. Start your own forever free Torah podcast today at https://torahcasts.com/sign-up/ and share your Torah with the world.
Vayeira: The Sinful Selfishness Of Our Sister Sodom (Immigration Edition, Revisited) (2026-10-27)
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Lech-Lecha: Counting and Cataloging Cochavim (2026-10-20)
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Noah: Pet the (Pigeon) Messenger; Don't Shoot It (2026-10-13)
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Bereishis: Swords Don't Kill People; People Kill People (Revisited) (2026-10-06)
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Haazinu: Pleonasm and Parallelism (Revisited) (2026-09-15)
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Haazinu: A Language of Milk and Honey (2026-09-08)
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Vayeilech: The Centovigenarian (2026-09-01)
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Ki-Savo: The Soul's Sole Sojourn (2026-08-25)
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Eikev: Bitahon, Fear, and Prudence (Revisited) (2026-07-28)
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Va'eshanan: Keeping Body and Soul Together (2026-07-21)
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Devarim: Exegesis and Exaggeration (2026-07-14)
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Matos: Mud Not the Fountain that Gave Drink to Thee (2026-07-07)
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Pinhas: Procreation and Parnassah (2026-06-30)
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Hukas: Similia Similibus Curentur (2026-06-23)
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Korah: The Sacred Service of Song (2026-06-16)
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Shelah: People the World Could Not Do Without (2026-06-09)
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Behaaloscha: Blowing Our Own Trumpets (2026-06-02)
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Naso: Moral Dialetheism (2026-05-26)
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Naso: The Benefit of the Doubt (2026-05-19)
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Bamidbar: Numbers, Nefalim, and Neonatal Mortality (2026-05-12)
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Behar: Legal Fictions (2026-05-05)
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Emor: Nulla Poena Sine Lege Praevia (2026-04-28)
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Aharei Mos: Kohanim and Kategorim (2026-04-21)
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Metzora: Woe Unto the Wicked, Woe Unto His Neighbor (2026-04-14)
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Shemini: The Hare, the Hyrax, and the Ham, and Their Homage of Hypocrisy (2026-03-29)
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Tzav: As Night Follows Day (2026-03-22)
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Vayikra: The Duty of Testimony (Revisited) - Costs, Consequences, and Commitments (2026-03-15)
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Ki Sisa: Seeing Is Believing (2026-03-01)
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Tetzaveh: Night Lights (2026-02-24)
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Terumah: The Mystery Of the Missing Metal (2026-02-17)
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Mishpatim: Double Jeopardy and Actual Innocence (2026-02-10)
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Yisro: Taking the L-rd's Name In Vain (2026-02-03)
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Beshalah: Testing, Testing (2026-01-27)
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Bo: Friends, Egyptians, and Countrymen (2026-01-20)
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Shemos-Vaeira: The Three Day Getaway (Revisited) (2026-01-13)
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Shemos: You Are What You Eat (Or Drink) (2026-01-06)
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Vayehi: Going Halfsies (2025-12-30)
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Mikeitz-Vayigash: Danger! Danger! (2025-12-21)
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Mikeitz: There Are No Perfectly Safe Courses (2025-12-16)
In parashas Mikeitz, Judah responds to his father's concern for
Benjamin's safety by saying: "Send the lad with me, and we will arise
and go, that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our
little ones." Many commentators explain this to mean that Judah was
conceding the danger that the trip posed to Benjamin but arguing that
the danger to the whole family of not going was greater. Our class this
week will explore this idea from the halachic perspective.
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Vayeishev: The Great Compromisers (2025-12-09)
In this class we discuss Judah's proposal to his brothers to sell Joseph rather than kill him. Our discussion involves two of our favorite themes: the question of the legitimacy of moral compromise when moral absolutism seems infeasible, and the moral ambiguity frequently present in Biblical narrative.
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