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JTS The Evolution of Torah
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Frequency: 1 episode/157d. Total Eps: 14
In Season two of The Evolution of Torah, Rabbi Mordecai Schwartz takes usto four regions of the Medieval world to understand the specific Torah cultures that emerged from each place and their approach to Torah learning. The season covers Muslim Spain and North Africa, France, Germany, and Christian Spain over the course of 500 years, from the closing of the Talmud around the year 800 to the Spanish Inquisition. There is also one episode about Maimonides.
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Introducing: Exploring Kabbalah
jeudi 11 avril 2024 • Duration 12:17
Check out this new series from JTS Podcasts, Exploring Kabbalah. Dr. Eitan Fishbane shares the complext history of Jewish mystical thought from the Torah to Hasidism.
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RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/3550593/episodes/feed
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exploring-kabbalah/id1739159484
Hosted by: Dr. Eitan Fishbane
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: “Yah Notein Binah” from Seeds of Song
Find more JTS Podcasts at www.jtsa.edu/torah/podcasts
Subscribe now:
RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/3550593/episodes/feed
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exploring-kabbalah/id1739159484
Hosted by: Dr. Eitan Fishbane
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: “Yah Notein Binah” from Seeds of Song
Find more JTS Podcasts at www.jtsa.edu/torah/podcasts
2.6 Evolution of Torah: Christian Spain
Season 2 · Episode 6
mardi 18 juillet 2023 • Duration 14:00
All the legal cultures we discussed in this season come together in Christian Spain in the 14th Century. Rabbi Asher ben Yehiel (the Rosh) is one of the rabbis leading the integration of the legal culture of Muslim Spain, with the interpretative work of France and the rabbinic authority that was standard in Germany. This episode traces the Rosh’s immigration to Spain and highlights the period until the Spanish Inquisition. We end this season on the precipice of even broader geographic dispersion and as moveable type is about to revolutionize rabbinic and Jewish culture.
Hosted by: Rabbi Mordecai Marcus Schwartz
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
Hosted by: Rabbi Mordecai Marcus Schwartz
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
3. The Talmud(s): Creating Torah through dispute
Season 1 · Episode 3
mardi 19 novembre 2019 • Duration 09:42
Interpreting the Mishnah evolved into a creative process where pairs of Rabbis would argue with each other. In this episode, we discuss how these debates about interpretation developed into a primary component of the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud.
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Produced by Rabbi Tim Bernard
Cover art: Rabbi Tim Bernard
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
Credits:
Produced by Rabbi Tim Bernard
Cover art: Rabbi Tim Bernard
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
2. The Mishnah: the earliest voices
Season 1 · Episode 2
mardi 19 novembre 2019 • Duration 16:59
The Mishnah is the foundational rabbinic text. How did it come to be? Who authored it? And what’s in it? In this episode, we look at an example of a mishnah and Rabbi Schwartz also gives an overview of the role of women in and around the Mishnah.
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Produced by Rabbi Tim Bernard
Cover art: Rabbi Tim Bernard
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
Credits:
Produced by Rabbi Tim Bernard
Cover art: Rabbi Tim Bernard
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
1. Who Were the Rabbis?
Season 1 · Episode 1
mardi 19 novembre 2019 • Duration 13:12
What led to the emergence of the group of scholars and teachers we call the Rabbis? What motivated them and what did they value? The Rabbis looked to their forebear, Hillel, as an exemplar of religious leadership, and in this episode, we’ll look at three stories they told about Hillel to see what we can learn about the Rabbis’ self-conception.
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Produced by Rabbi Tim Bernard
Cover art: Rabbi Tim Bernard
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
Credits:
Produced by Rabbi Tim Bernard
Cover art: Rabbi Tim Bernard
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
2.5 Evolution of Torah: Germany
Season 2 · Episode 5
mardi 11 juillet 2023 • Duration 14:21
The German Jewish community was at once highly organized and prosperous. At the same time, they were subject to the potentially violent whims of non-Jewish community around them. These parallels of strength and challenge are at the core of this episode about rabbinic culture in the Germanic provinces in the 13th century. We will focus on the specific struggles of two rabbis, the Maharam (Rabbi Meir ben Barukh) of Rothenberg and Rabbi Mordechai ben Hillel while exploring their and others’ contributions to Jewish practice.
Hosted by: Rabbi Mordecai Marcus Schwartz
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
Hosted by: Rabbi Mordecai Marcus Schwartz
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
2.4 Maimonides
mardi 27 juin 2023 • Duration 14:47
For this episode, we focus solely on Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204, Maimonides/Rambam), whose work in diverse disciplines from medicine to philosophy worked to elevate rabbinic legal culture. We examine the Mishneh Torah, Maimonides’s companion to the written Torah, which is the oldest in existence and delve into his rigorous work life. Through his letters, we get a sense of Maimonides personal challenges and extensive reach during his lifetime underscoring our desire to dedicate an episode to this transformational figure.
Hosted by: Rabbi Mordecai Marcus Schwartz
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
Hosted by: Rabbi Mordecai Marcus Schwartz
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
2.3 France
mardi 20 juin 2023 • Duration 13:43
This episode focuses on Rashi (1040 - 1105, Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac) and his intellectual (and genetic) heirs. We start by exploring the significant differences between French rabbinic culture and that of North Africa and Muslim Spain. As opposed to summarizing the law as presented in the Talmud which was the central aim of scholars like the RIF, Rashi embarked on a broader interpretative process which led his predecessors to the mammoth task of harmonizing conflicting and contradictory Talmudic discussion.
Hosted by: Rabbi Mordecai Marcus Schwartz
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
Hosted by: Rabbi Mordecai Marcus Schwartz
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
2.2 Muslim Spain and North Africa
Season 2 · Episode 2
mardi 13 juin 2023 • Duration 12:56
The legal culture of Muslim Spain and North Africa from the ninth to the thirteenth century focused on making the Talmud accessible through practical applications of Gaonic interpretations. This episode follows two scholars: Rabenu Hananel ben Hushiel whose approach is one of the earliest known attempt to provide a systematic commentary on the Talmud and that of Rabbi Isaac Alfasi (the RIF) whose work superseded Hananel’s within two generations. This period in general and the Rif’s work specifically kicked off the period of the Rishonim.
Hosted by: Rabbi Mordecai Marcus Schwartz
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
Hosted by: Rabbi Mordecai Marcus Schwartz
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
2.1 Journeys in Torah Study
Season 2 · Episode 1
mardi 6 juin 2023 • Duration 14:02
How did geographic diversity and separation impact rabbinic culture? In the season opener, we begin with the story of the four captives, the story that ended season one. This narrative offers an example of how rabbinic learning spread. We introduce the challenges and opportunities that faced Jewish communities which connect our four regions: Muslim Spain and North Africa, France, Germany, and Christian Spain. The season also includes a stand-alone episode about the monumental figure of Maimonides.
Hosted by: Rabbi Mordecai Marcus Schwartz
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
Hosted by: Rabbi Mordecai Marcus Schwartz
Produced by Ellie Gettinger
Edited by Sarah Brown
Cover art: Lee Willet
Theme music: Stock media provided by u19_studios / Pond5
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