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dr. rafa kern joins the pod to offer his critique of Martin Buber's skills as a playwright, but more importantly to share poignant insights on making meaning of text study and of the multiple elements that make up the phenomenon of chevruta learning. We do bibliomancy in this ep - spontaneously opening up a rabbinic text and seeing what meaning we can make of it!
Primary source: Mishnah Shevuot 4:6, 4:3:
Other sources mentioned:
Martin Buber's play Elijah, staged at Yale University in 2011
The ritual of the "decapitated calf / Egla Arufa," Deuteronomy 21:1-9
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Dogs in a perpetual state of wonder? Being an independent rabbi? A sense of newness every day? We wander towards the Burning Bush with Rabbi CB Souther, spiritual director and passionate Jewish educator, and discuss the overlap between life coaching and chavruta learning, and God as a process for good.
Primary source: Exodus 3:11-14
Other sources mentioned: The "still, small voice" of 1 Kings 19:12.

Rabbi Matthew Ponak teaches us about the Torah that is infused through everything, a return to the concept of “rav-chaver” (“friend-rabbi”) and juggling pumpkins.
Primary Source: Menachem Nachum of Chernobyl, Me'or Einayim, Shemot 3:2:
Other sources:
R. Matthew's books Embodied Kabbalah.
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In this episode, Rabbi Joel Goldstein joins us to discuss if it is harder to work on a submarine or in a Jewish high school, parallels between baseball and Judaism, and hierarchies in the Beit Midrash. Plus, do Jewish educators overdo chavruta learning?
Primary Source: Vayikra Rabbah 2:1 -- Is the study of Talmud an elitist project?
Other sources mentioned:
Ramban on Exodus 12:2., on Marheshvan: "Our Rabbis have already mentioned this matter when saying, “The names of the months came up with us from Babylon,” (Yerushalmi RH 1:2), since at first we had no names for the months. The reason for this [adoption of the names of the months when our ancestors returned from Babylon to build the Second Temple], was that at first their reckoning was a memorial to the exodus from Egypt, but when we came up from Babylon, and the words of Scripture were fulfilled (Jeremiah 16:14-15) from then on we began to call the months by the names they were called in the land of Babylon."
Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer 10:7 on Jonah's midrashic tour of the sea.

What Hebrew letter are you feeling most like today? We talk Tu B'Shvat, seasons, sleep, and yoga with Rabbi Bluth.
Primary source: the letters Aleph א and Bet ב
Bluth's Tu B'Shvat guide 5786
Genesis 2:10: "A river issues from Eden to water the garden,..."
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