Torah In Seven With Baila Olidort
We may know the Torah’s stories — the characters, the drama, the plot lines. But beneath the surface lie layers of meaning that can reshape how we read the text and how we understand ourselves. Torah in Seven explores the weekly parsha in under seven minutes. Each episode pulls a single thread from the narrative and follows it inward, revealing new facets of wisdom. Join host Baila Olidort as she weaves classical commentary, Chassidic insight, and personal reflection into a tapestry that brings ancient stories into conversation with our lives today.
Matot-Masei: Where the Chase Stops
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How do you outrun a past mistake when there's nowhere left to hide?
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Pinchas: The Substance Of Our Lives
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A zealot's actions, a daily routine, and the ordinary acts that build a good life
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Chukat-Balak: When the Well Runs Dry
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On loss, leadership, and the water that springs from within
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Korach: The Unresolved Relationship
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To love and live across the distance..
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Shelach: A Different Spirit
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To lose the room... and find the courage to stand alone.
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Behaalotcha:Talking Ourselves Out of the Promised Land
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Talking Ourselves Out of the Promised Land
The inclination to self sabotage on the cusp of a arrival
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Nasso: Admission Without Guilt
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On the honesty of naming what's broken
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Shavuot: Call Me Mara
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Shavuot: Call Me Mara
Reading the Book of Ruth through the eyes of its most overlooked character.
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Bamidbar: Living in the Twilight Zone
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When the old life ends — but the new one hasn't begun . . .
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Vayakhel-Pikudei: Dead Stones, Living Souls
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From forced labor to willing hearts — the Book of Exodus ends where it truly begins.
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Ki Tissa: The Kid, the Milk, and the Robot
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After the collapse of all boundaries at the Golden Calf, Ki Tissa offers an ancient 'Source Code' for a moral society—and a warning about what happens when humans become interchangeable with machines.
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Tetzaveh: Travel Light. Carry Weight.
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Why Aaron’s garments challenge modern ideas of freedom.
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Terumah: Architecture of Desire
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The strange tension between structure and desire no one talks about.
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Mishpatim: Conscience and Consensus
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How do we live by consensus without surrendering our conscience?
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Yisro: The Sinai Anticlimax
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We expected an other-worldly revelation. What happened was something else entirely.
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Beshalach: The Economy of Trust
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What does it mean to let go of the illusion of control—and to learn what it means to have enough. In this episode of Torah in Seven, we look at the slow work of cultivating trust rather than control.
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Bo: The Stories We Inherit
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This episode reflects on how stories shape moral imagination, how freedom is learned through narrative, and why what we pass down matters as much as what we lived through.
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Va'era: The Slow Unraveling
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Vaera traces the slow unraveling of a world that can no longer endure, and asks what it takes to be drawn out from the very heart of its collapse.
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Shemot: The Narrow Place
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There's a particular violence in having one's pain go unseen, their cry unheard, their voice shut down. The Jewish people understand this. And Parshat Shemot speaks directly to it. What does redemption look like from inside this narrow place?
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Vayechi: An Unfinished Story
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In this episode of Torah in Seven, the final one in the Book of Genesis, we explore what it means to live inside an unfinished story—and what the Torah asks of us when escape is not an option and endurance becomes a moral act.
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Vayigash: Take Me Instead!
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What does it mean to step forward in moments of tension and uncertainty?
This episode reflects on honesty, responsibility, and the possibility of repair.
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Mikeitz: Life After Trauma
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Joseph names his son "God made me forget." But forget what—and why? And why is letting go sometimes the only way to become?
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Vayeishev: Rupture & Recognition
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What truths sit in plain sight, waiting for us to finally recognize them?
Discover the power of recognition in this week’s Torah in Seven with Baila Olidort.
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Vayishlach: Who Am I?
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What happens when all your relational anchors are no longer available to you? This week’s episode explores developing a core identity that doesn’t depend on anything external to the self.
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We may know the Torah’s stories — the characters, the drama, the plot lines. But beneath the surface lie layers of meaning that can reshape how we read the text and how we understand ourselves. Torah in Seven explores the weekly parsha in under seven minutes. Each episode pulls a single thread from the narrative and follows it inwar...
Vayetzei: Pondering Patience
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We may know the Torah’s stories — the characters, the drama, the plot lines. But beneath the surface lie layers of meaning that can reshape how we read the text and how we understand ourselves. Torah in Seven explores the weekly parsha in under seven minutes. Each episode pulls a single thread from the narrative and follows it inward, revealing new facets of wisdom.
Join host Baila Olidort, Editor-in-Chief of Lubavitch International Magazine, as she weaves classical commentary, Chasidic insight, and personal reflection into a tapestry that brings ancient stories into conve...
