Best Beit Midrash Podcasts (2025)

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50 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #42 The Psychology of Love and Relationships 58:17

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In this class series, Rabbi Shmuly will explore the Torah of the mind. We will explore how Jewish thought intersects with modern psychological studies and theories by examining thinkers like Freud, Piaget, Maslow, Frankl, and so many others over 50 interactive sessions. Looking at consciousness, moral reasoning, ego, love, learning, and evil, how c…

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When Society Goes Astray (Nitzavim) 13:16

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How can we respond when the world feels chaotic—when society seems to be unraveling around us? Join Rabbi Micah Streiffer in exploring what Torah teaches about finding responsibility and purpose in challenging times. --------------------------------- Seven Minute Torah is a production of LAASOK: The Liberal Beit Midrash. For info on our weekly Zoom…

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Nitzavim: The Long Goodbye 5:36

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When Moshe gathers the generation of the desert together to enter them into the covenant once again, he knows that it is his last chance to teach the people how to live according to the Torah—and, crucially, how to live without him.By Hadar Institute

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R. Tali Adler: When Teshuvah Is or Should Be Impossible 42:10

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Are some things unforgivable? Is Teshuvah always an option? What would it mean if the road to repentance were blocked? In this class we will explore questions of whether we ever lose the opportunity to do Teshuvah and what it might look like to repent from a place where we are unsure of the possibility of forgiveness. Recorded in Elul 2023. Source …

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Finding Comfort in Jewish Meditation 59:03

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A virtual event presentation by Rabbi Yisroel Juskowicz About The Event: Meditation has been providing comfort and relaxation to people of all walks of life and ages. What many people may not know is how deeply rooted meditation is in Jewish tradition, and how one can make a guided meditation into a Jewish experience. In this class, participants wi…

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50 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #41 Sports Psychology 56:21

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In this class series, Rabbi Shmuly will explore the Torah of the mind. We will explore how Jewish thought intersects with modern psychological studies and theories by examining thinkers like Freud, Piaget, Maslow, Frankl, and so many others over 50 interactive sessions. Looking at consciousness, moral reasoning, ego, love, learning, and evil, how c…

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Ki Tavo: No Final Chapter 7:00

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We’ve made it. That seems to be the promise of bikkurim, the first fruits gift to God.By Hadar Institute

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Valley Bread Midrash: Exploring and Expanding Torah in Chevruta with Challah 57:42

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A virtual event presentation by Rabbi Vanessa Harper About The Event: In Pirkei Avot, we read, “If there is no bread, there is no Torah, and if there is no Torah, there is no bread.” Rabbi Vanessa Harper takes this dictum literally in her book Loaves of Torah: Exploring the Jewish Year through Challah, using challah as a spiritually significant mat…

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R. Dena Weiss: The Mechanics of Mercy: How Does Forgiveness Actually Work? 1:00:14

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The liturgy of the High Holiday season is replete with promises about God's forgiveness but is less specific about how God forgives. In her lecture, R. Dena Weiss explores how forgiveness works, and asks if there are any strategies that we can adopt to make us more forgivable and forgiving. This lecture was delivered in memory of Rabbi Jonathan D. …

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50 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #40 The Psychology of Change 52:40

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In this class series, Rabbi Shmuly will explore the Torah of the mind. We will explore how Jewish thought intersects with modern psychological studies and theories by examining thinkers like Freud, Piaget, Maslow, Frankl, and so many others over 50 interactive sessions. Looking at consciousness, moral reasoning, ego, love, learning, and evil, how c…

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R. Tali Adler on Ki Teitzei: Living in the Double Exposure 7:02

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I was eight years old in Basel, Switzerland the day I learned about the way places have layers. It was a chilly, autumn shabbos, and my father and I were on a walk by the river. My father pointed out different sights as we walked: there is the house where his elementary school friend lived. There is the gate they walked through to get to school, th…

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In the Image of God (Ki Tetze) 15:16

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One of Judaism’s most famous teachings is that every person is created B’tzelem Elohim—in the image of God. But what does that really mean for how we see and treat each other, especially those who have done wrong? In this episode, Rabbi Micah Streiffer digs into a surprising Torah passage and rabbinic midrash to explore dignity, justice, and the li…

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R. Shai Held: Biblical Theology in a Time of Climate Emergency Part 3 34:46

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What can the Bible teach us about navigating our way through a time of climate emergency? In this series, R. Shai Held explores three key biblical texts that offer differing (but perhaps complementary) approaches to understanding our place in this divinely created and much-more-than-human world. Recorded in Winter 2025. Source sheet: https://mechon…

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50 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #39 The Conscious and The Unconscious 54:06

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In this class series, Rabbi Shmuly will explore the Torah of the mind. We will explore how Jewish thought intersects with modern psychological studies and theories by examining thinkers like Freud, Piaget, Maslow, Frankl, and so many others over 50 interactive sessions. Looking at consciousness, moral reasoning, ego, love, learning, and evil, how c…

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Shoftim: Even So 7:30

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What do you do when you feel—or when you know—that because of your actions, you are entirely alone in the world?By Hadar Institute

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50 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #38 The Psychology of Secrets 53:48

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In this class series, Rabbi Shmuly will explore the Torah of the mind. We will explore how Jewish thought intersects with modern psychological studies and theories by examining thinkers like Freud, Piaget, Maslow, Frankl, and so many others over 50 interactive sessions. Looking at consciousness, moral reasoning, ego, love, learning, and evil, how c…

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Rosh Chodesh Elul: Teshuvah: Light or Salvation? 9:22

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Thinking about our own transgressions and repentance is hard, and so it makes sense that we often latch on to metaphors to help us think about these ideas. Perhaps the strangest metaphor I know of appears in the Zohar.By Hadar Institute

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Re'eih: Mourning as Children of God 7:26

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There is something about our relationship with God that holds us back from unbridled grief.By Hadar Institute

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God is Oneness (Re'eh) 13:08

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This week’s Torah portion is full of laws—about food, tithes, debts, sacrifice. Hard to relate to? Maybe. But beneath the rules lies a profound truth: the Shema’s declaration that God is Oneness. What happens when we see the divine not as a distant lawgiver, but as the sacred unity that connects us to everything and everyone? ----------------------…

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R. Shai Held: Biblical Theology in a Time of Climate Emergency Part 2 31:06

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What can the Bible teach us about navigating our way through a time of climate emergency? In this series, R. Shai Held explores three key biblical texts that offer differing (but perhaps complementary) approaches to understanding our place in this divinely created and much-more-than-human world. Recorded in Winter 2025. Source sheet: https://mechon…

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Daniel: The Challenge and Opportunity for Diaspora Jews 50:59

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About The Event: Through the lens of the biblical figure Daniel—a Jerusalem noble taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar II who rose to prominence while staying true to his Jewish identity—we’ll examine what it means to live as Jews in the diaspora today. This class will delve into the complexities of balancing integration with authenticity, navigating pr…

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50 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #37 Good Samaritan 59:08

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In this class series, Rabbi Shmuly will explore the Torah of the mind. We will explore how Jewish thought intersects with modern psychological studies and theories by examining thinkers like Freud, Piaget, Maslow, Frankl, and so many others over 50 interactive sessions. Looking at consciousness, moral reasoning, ego, love, learning, and evil, how c…

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Eikev: Back to Eden 5:09

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Of course the Jews thought that they would starve when they left Egypt. In Moshe’s retelling of the story of the mann (manna), that is deliberate. There is something about the mann that is inextricably linked to hunger—or, at least, our fear of it.By Hadar Institute

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R. Shai Held: Biblical Theology in a Time of Climate Emergency Part 1 47:24

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What can the Bible teach us about navigating our way through a time of climate emergency? In this series, R. Shai Held explores three key biblical texts that offer differing (but perhaps complementary) approaches to understanding our place in this divinely created and much-more-than-human world. Recorded in Winter 2025. Source sheet: https://mechon…

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50 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #36 Bandura & The Bobo Doll Experiment 57:45

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In this class series, Rabbi Shmuly will explore the Torah of the mind. We will explore how Jewish thought intersects with modern psychological studies and theories by examining thinkers like Freud, Piaget, Maslow, Frankl, and so many others over 50 interactive sessions. Looking at consciousness, moral reasoning, ego, love, learning, and evil, how c…

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Va'Ethanan: With All Your Heart 7:02

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There is no such thing, for a Jew, as loving God without loving human beings as well. Our love for God is bound up with our love for others: for the parents who taught us His name, and the grandparents who taught them. For the children we raise to know Him. For every ancestor, too far back for us to remember their names, who remembered God’s covena…

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R. Shai Held on the Jewish Philanthropy Podcast: Judaism is About Love 52:29

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In this episode of What Gives?, The Jewish Philanthropy Podcast, JFN CEO Andrés Spokoiny welcomes Rabbi Shai Held to discuss the claim that love is Judaism’s central value. Together, they confront common misconceptions about the "God of the Old Testament," reflect on theology in the shadow of October 7, and consider how Jewish philanthropy can help…

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50 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #35 Mob Mentality 54:21

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In this class series, Rabbi Shmuly will explore the Torah of the mind. We will explore how Jewish thought intersects with modern psychological studies and theories by examining thinkers like Freud, Piaget, Maslow, Frankl, and so many others over 50 interactive sessions. Looking at consciousness, moral reasoning, ego, love, learning, and evil, how c…

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Devarim: The Torah of Exile 10:18

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The danger, when the two tribes decide to stay on the other side of the Jordan, is not just that we might become two peoples: it is that we may develop two Torahs.By Hadar Institute

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50 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #34 The Hawthorne Effect 58:29

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In this class series, Rabbi Shmuly will explore the Torah of the mind. We will explore how Jewish thought intersects with modern psychological studies and theories by examining thinkers like Freud, Piaget, Maslow, Frankl, and so many others over 50 interactive sessions. Looking at consciousness, moral reasoning, ego, love, learning, and evil, how c…

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Tisha B'Av: Between Exodus and Exile 7:32

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One of the poetic laments we recite on Tisha b’Av is the poem that begins Eish tukad bekirbi (“A fire shall burn within me”). An acrostic, each stanza of the poem juxtaposes something glorious that occurred during the Exodus from Egypt, with something equally ignoble from our exile from Jerusalem.By Hadar Institute

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50 Transformative Psychology Studies & Theories and Jewish Perspectives on Them #33 Courage 55:26

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In this class series, Rabbi Shmuly will explore the Torah of the mind. We will explore how Jewish thought intersects with modern psychological studies and theories by examining thinkers like Freud, Piaget, Maslow, Frankl, and so many others over 50 interactive sessions. Looking at consciousness, moral reasoning, ego, love, learning, and evil, how c…

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Mattot-Mas'ei: On the Other Side of the Jordan 9:12

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Moshe’s real concern, when Reuven and Gad ask to remain on their side of the Jordan, is the way that distance can split families apart.By Hadar Institute