Some Torah questions call for a single conversation. Others invite an entire series. Pardes Live and Mini-Series opens the doors of the Pardes beit midrash to listeners around the world through a wide-ranging collection of recorded lectures, classes, conversations, and…
Podcast series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series
What can Jewish texts, values, and history contribute to the pursuit of global justice? Hosted in its first season by Shani Rosenbaum, Global Torah explores the relationship between Jewish tradition and global citizenship, social justice, and international development. Scholars of…
Podcast series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Critical issues, Social justice, Jewish living, Tzedakah
How do biblical women express spiritual power in moments of tension? In Women in the Wilderness: Four Narratives of Spiritual Power, Dr. Avivah Zornberg explores the spiritual resistance of biblical heroines through midrashic and Hasidic readings alongside psychoanalytic approaches. The…
Personalities, Biblical personalities, Podcast series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Tanakh, Women in the Wilderness: Four Narratives of Spiritual Power
How have Jewish communities in the Land of Israel and the Diaspora understood their relationship with one another? In Israel & the Diaspora in Antiquity: Partnership, Dialogue, or Debate?, Professor Isaiah Gafni examines that relationship through four recorded lectures. The…
Critical issues, Israel, Jewish history, Podcast series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series
What might it mean to encounter the Divine within the rhythms of everyday life? Hosted by Yiscah Smith, Walking With Your Inner Spirit offers six opportunities, practices, and encounters for experiencing the Divine within. The series explores the relationship between…
Self & spirituality, Jewish prayer, Podcast series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Personal transformation, Spirituality
How did rabbinic discussions of women’s dress, hair, and voice shape later understandings of modesty? In Uncovered: Sources of Nakedness in Halakha, Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash examines three subjects that affect women’s presence in traditional Jewish communities. The series places…
Jewish living, Halakha, Podcast series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Self & spirituality, Sexuality
When we repent, can we do more than change the present—can we change the past? In Teshuva and Time Travel, Samuel Lebens brings classical Jewish texts on repentance into conversation with contemporary philosophical reflection on the nature of time. The…
Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Podcast series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Self & spirituality, Reflection
How did Jewish voters become part of the changing story of American politics? In Jews and American Politics, Professor Jonathan D. Sarna traces Jewish political participation through four recorded lectures. Moving from Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era through…
Jewish history, Podcast series, Pardes Live and Mini-Series, Critical issues, Politics
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