What can the absence of the shofar teach us about how we approach God? In this episode, Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy explore what happens when Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat and the shofar—the holiday’s defining sound—is absent.…
Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Rosh Hashana
How do the tears of our ancestors guide our prayers today? In this episode, Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbanit Shalhevet Cahana prepare for Rosh Hashanah through the lens of Parshat Netzavim and the holiday’s Torah readings. They explore the sound of…
Tanakh, Torah, Devarim (Deuteronomy), Nitzavim, Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast
This Rosh Hashana podcast is sponsored by Ricki and Dr. David I. Bernstein in memory of Ricki’s parents, Beatrice and Murray Kirschblat z”l, survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, respectively. Beatrice and Murray were each the sole survivors of large families…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Rosh Hashana
On Rosh Hashana we sound the shofar during the day and not during the night following the biblical verse that refers to yom teru‘ah (Numbers 29:1) – a day when the horn is sounded. As with other commandments that are…
Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Rosh Hashana
This Rosh Hashana podcast is sponsored by Ricki and David Bernstein in memory of Ricki’s parents, Beatrice and Murray Kirschblat z”l, survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, respectively. Beatrice and Murray were each the sole survivors of large families which perished…
Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Rosh Hashana, Tanakh
Dr. Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath offers a set of blessings for the new year of Jewish learning — for more questions, more joy, more dialogue, and blurred lines between our Jewish and everyday selves.
Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Rosh Hashana
Vayelech 5782/Shabbat Shuva – Who Would you Invite to Dinner? This class imagines an imaginary dinner between R. Zera (4th century CE) and Moses. How are these two figures similar? How are they different? And what can their differences teach…
Tanakh, Torah, Devarim (Deuteronomy), Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Jewish calendar
Greatest Hits: The High Holidays Episode 1: Resurrection and Rosh Hashana: Multivalent Perspectives on the Binding of Isaac Description: There is no story as rich and complex, as troubling and inspiring, as Akedat Yitzchak, the binding of Isaac which is…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Rosh Hashana
Greatest Hits: The High Holidays Episode 2: Rosh Hashana: Power of Choice Description: In this special Pardes from Jerusalem podcast for Rosh Hashana, Nechama Goldman Barash explores both ancient and modern sources that reflect on the power of choice and…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Jewish calendar, High Holidays, Rosh Hashana
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