Best Maimonides Podcasts (2025)

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Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025) 39:53

19d ago39:53

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Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish …

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Moreh Nevuchim #167 – Chelek 3, Perek 54 20:36

23d ago20:36

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By Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky

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Sandra Matz, "Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior" (HBRP, 2025) 41:31

25d ago41:31

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A fascinating exploration of how algorithms penetrate the most intimate aspects of our psychology—from the pioneering expert on psychological targeting. There are more pieces of digital data than there are stars in the universe. This data helps us monitor our planet, decipher our genetic code, and take a deep dive into our psychology. As algorithms…

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Moreh Nevuchim #166 – Chelek 3, Perek 52 27:15

29d ago27:15

27:15

By Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky

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David Resnick, "Empowered or Abused: The Bible's Plan to Stop Battlefield Rape and Reduce Sexual Abuse" (BfoT, 2025) 28:32

1M ago28:32

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What to do when a victorious soldier lusts for the beautiful woman he’s just taken captive in an overseas war. In fact, her body already belongs to him as war booty. If they’re alone in an alley, no one will find out what he does to her. That’s the incendiary situation to which the Bible responds with the Beautiful Captive Law. The Bible’s first st…

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Jerome Gellman, "The Problem of God in Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 31:44

1M ago31:44

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The Hebrew Bible contains two quite different divine personae. One is quick to anger and to exact punishment while the other is a compassionate God slow to anger and quick to forgive. One God distant, the other close by. This severe contrast posed a theological challenge for Jewish thought for the ages. The Problem of God in Jewish Thought (Cambrid…

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Keith J. Hayward, "Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood" (Constable & Robinson, 2025) 41:15

2M ago41:15

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Have you ever noticed that in areas of everyday life, rather than being addressed like a mature adult, you're increasingly treated like an irresponsible child in constant need of instruction and protection? Noticing society's creeping descent into infantilisation is one thing, however understanding the roots and causes of the phenomenon is not quit…

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James Davison Hunter, "Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis" (Yale UP, 2024) 38:43

2M ago38:43

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Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions—most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom, justice, and equality that, tragically, has seldom been realized in practice. While these contradictions have caused dissent and even violence, there was always an underlying and evolving solidarity drawn from the cultural reso…

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Moreh Nevuchim #165 – Chelek 3, Perek 52 25:17

2M ago25:17

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By Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky

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On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024) 42:55

3M ago42:55

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Despite the flames of record-breaking temperatures licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of environmental overheating. What acquired habits and conveniences allow us to turn a blind eye with an air of detachment? Using examples from the hottest places on earth, Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming P…

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Anthony Grafton, "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa" (Harvard UP, 2023) 31:36

3M ago31:36

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Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa (Harvard UP, 2023) is a revelatory new account of the magus―the learned magician―and his place in the intellectual, social, and cultural world of Renaissance Europe. In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus, however, was someth…

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Moreh Nevuchim #164 – Chelek 3, Perek 51 25:51

3M ago25:51

25:51

By Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky

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Moreh Nevuchim #163 – Chelek 3, Perek 51 27:13

3M ago27:13

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By Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky

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Moreh Nevuchim #162 – Chelek 3, Perek 51 28:53

4M ago28:53

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This shiur has been sponsored anonymously in appreciation of Rabbi Lopiansky’s Harbatzas HaTorahBy Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky

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Josef Stern, "Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth" (U Chicago Press, 2019) 40:39

4M ago40:39

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There is a common misconception that the Jewish religion does not believe in an afterlife. While it’s true that Judaism is focused on actions, intentions and thoughts in this life, it also believes in an afterlife, and has a variety of points of view about what happens after death. Today’s guest, Professor Joseph Stern, will discuss Maimonides’ uni…

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Eric Cline, "After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations" (Princeton UP, 2025) 34:16

4M ago34:16

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At the end of Eric Cline's bestselling history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, natural disasters, famine, and the demise of international trade. An interconnected world that had boasted major empires and societies, relative peace, robust commerce,…

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SECTION 3 - CHAPTER 54 - PART 3 (END OF SEFER) 30:38

4M ago30:38

30:38

By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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SECTION 3 - CHAPTER 54 - PART 2 25:28

4M ago25:28

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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SECTION 3 - CHAPTER 54 - PART 1 23:17

4M ago23:17

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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Section 3 - Chapter 53 25:35

4M ago25:35

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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Moreh Nevuchim #161 – Chelek 3, Perek 50 25:51

4M ago25:51

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By Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky

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Moreh Nevuchim #160 – Chelek 3, Perek 49 26:26

4M ago26:26

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By Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky

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Section 3 - Chapter 52 25:15

4M ago25:15

25:15

By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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Section 3 - Chapter 51 - part 3 23:03

4M ago23:03

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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Section 3 - Chapter 51 - Part 2 25:56

4M ago25:56

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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Section 3 - Chapter 51 - Part 1 27:36

4M ago27:36

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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On the Book of Psalms: Exploring the Prayers of Ancient Israel by Nachum Sarna 35:58

4M ago35:58

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In this episode we delve into one of the most profound and enduring works of sacred poetry: the Book of Psalms. Emotional and spiritual, joyful and despairing, triumphant and trembling with terror, the psalms have given voice to humanity's deepest yearnings for millennia. These timeless prayers and hymns have offered solace, inspiration, and a path…

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Section 3 - Chapter 50 22:42

4M ago22:42

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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Section 3 - Chapter 49; PART 3 29:36

4M ago29:36

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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Section 3 - Chapter 49; PART 2 25:03

4M ago25:03

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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Matthew Levitt, "Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad" (Yale UP, 2008) 36:10

4M ago36:10

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The world is reeling from the savage terror attack that brutalized, raped, murdered and kidnapped Israelis and civilians from at least 25 other countries, continuing to hold many of them hostage – and from the ongoing war that followed. After Hamas took over Gaza in 2007, some thought it would become more moderate. That was wishful thinking. The ba…

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Section 3 - Chapter 49; PART 1 27:15

4M ago27:15

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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Section 3 - Chapter 48; PART 2 27:25

5M ago27:25

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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Section 3 - Chapter 47; Part 2 - 48; PART 1 27:34

5M ago27:34

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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Section 3 - Chapter 47 - Part 1 25:51

5M ago25:51

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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Section 3 - Chapter 46 - Part 4 26:24

5M ago26:24

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By Rabbi Yossi Michalowicz

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Anthony Bale, "A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes" (Norton, 2024) 38:15

5M ago38:15

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A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to the court of China and beyond. Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid and alluring history, m…