If God wants to dwell among us, what are we building to make that possible? In this episode, Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbi Raphael Polisuk explore Parshat Trumah and the surprising claim that the Mishkan is not a detour from Sinai, but its…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Terumah
This week’s episode is in memory of Beth Wasserman z”l and sponsored by her nephew and his family. Why does God command a physical space if God is everywhere? In this episode, Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbi Brent Spodek explore Parshat…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Terumah
Can we find value in tangible expressions or experiences of spirituality, even if they challenge our rational view of the world? Pardes President Rabbi Leon Morris joins us this week to explore the challenges raised by the commandment to build…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Terumah
This podcast is in memory of Arlene Ruby Harel z”l upon the occasion of her first yahrzeit. Arlene’s welcoming, free-spirited nature, warmth, authenticity, candor, humor and openness is missed deeply by all of us who were privileged to work with…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Terumah
Parashat Terumah 5782: Stop the Clocks or Hang the Flags? How Moderns Create Jewish Space Description: This podcast takes us on a roller-coaster of a trip from the tabernacle in the desert to 19th century ultra-orthodoxy in Hungary to 20th…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Terumah
The obligation to destroy Amalek and their descendants, which is read of Zachor, is one of the most problematic commandments in the bible. See how medieval commentators explained it away and how modern commentators honed even this difficult mitzva for…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Terumah
Rabban Gamliel wanted perfect students: “Only a Torah scholar whose inside is like his outside may enter the Beth ha-Midrash.” But there were hundreds of students who wanted to study Torah who couldn’t say that their “inside was like there…
Educator resources, Meaning-making, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Terumah
From an irresistible page-turner throughout the Egyptian slavery, the traumatic plagues, the exhilarating exodus, and earth quaking revelation at Sinai, the Torah slows to a crawl, with a series of five Torah portions, spread over nearly 15 chapters dedicated to…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Terumah
At the end of last week’s parsha, Moshe went up to the heavens to learn from God for 40 days and nights. So at the beginning of this week’s parsha, Parshat Terumah, while Moshe and God are together, God instructs…
Educator resources, Meaning-making, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Terumah
In this podcast we will explore the idea of the Tabernacle and what it means to create a place for God to dwell. Through three midrashic parables we will see that it is not only human beings who seek out…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Terumah
This week’s parsha describes how the Children of Israel create a space for God. They construct a Mishkan, a Tabernacle or portable temple. The word Mishkan means residence. But God doesn’t need a house; in the words of King Solomon…
Educator resources, Meaning-making, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Terumah
In this podcast, Yiscah Smith discusses the practice of cultivating “הלב התנדבות” —the spirit of generosity— that allows for the building of one’s inner spiritual home, manifesting in the revelation of the Shechina, the Divine Presence. This shiur is based…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Terumah
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