Explore every episode of the podcast Sof Pasuk: The Torah Reading Podcast
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| Vayeira | 03 Nov 2025 | 00:06:32 | |
A cautionary tale, a ram controversy, and introducing the cheimes mayim. Follow along in Bereishit 22:9, 22:13, 18:28, 21:19. | |||
| Lech Lecha | 30 Oct 2025 | 00:07:24 | |
More on "and," how the trup changes for musical considerations, and a challenge for your next mistake. Follow along in Bereishit 13:14 Devarim 3:27, Bereishit 17:1, 17:24, 16:2, 16:5, 16:6, 14:17, 14:8. | |||
| Va'etchanan | 07 Aug 2025 | 00:08:45 | |
Unusual features. Follow along in Devarim 3:27, 4:38, 4:9, 4:1, 4:32, 5:22, 6:22. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Vayeitzei | 23 Nov 2023 | 00:07:23 | |
An esquisite keves yayin and troubling one. Follow along in Bereishit 31:10, 30:10, 30:5, Shemot 7:11, Bereishit 30:7. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Toledot | 16 Nov 2023 | 00:07:27 | |
A refersher on the chataf patah on letters where it doesn't belong. And while we are at, a refresher on this week's Mesorah Advisory. Follow along in Bereishit 27:26, 25:22, 27:29, 27:38, 28:9. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Chayei Sara | 09 Nov 2023 | 00:06:20 | |
Oh, if only. Follow along in Bereishit 23:13, 17:18, Tehillim 81:14, Bereishit 30:34. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Vayeira | 02 Nov 2023 | 00:08:12 | |
Parsing from afar, different kinds of healing (or not), and the swearing by your life. Follow along in Bereishit 22:4, 20:17, Melachim II 2:21-11, Shemot 21:19, Melachim II 4:30, Bereishit 42:15, Bemidbar 14:21. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Lech Lecha | 26 Oct 2023 | 00:05:11 | |
Three timeless mistakes. Follow along in Bereshit 14:11, 17:17 and Yeshayahu 40:31. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Noah | 18 Oct 2023 | 00:07:28 | |
Moshe Ginsberg and I ask each other questions that we cannot answer. Follow along in Bereishit 11:11, 7:2-3, Divrei Hayamim II 24:3, Devarim 11:14, Bereishit 2:4, 11:14. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Bereishit | 11 Oct 2023 | 00:06:53 | |
The cluster of psiks this week, and the phenomenon of the conversion of the azla. Follow along in Bereishit 1:5, 1:10, 1:27, 2:21, 2:22, 4:15, 6:7. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Shemini Atzeret | 04 Oct 2023 | 00:07:00 | |
On Rashi, the mesora, and grammar. Follow along in Devarim 33:23, 1:21, Daniel 9:19, Devarim 33:18-19. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Sukkot and Kohelet | 27 Sep 2023 | 00:07:49 | |
Tani Klein joins the podcast and we share our thoughts on Kohelet. You may think these are new ideas, but they aren't. Follow along in Kohelet 9:2, 7:3, and 12:13-14 Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Yom Kippur | 24 Sep 2023 | 00:07:33 | |
Three things in Yona to help you get ready for Yom Kippur mincha. Follow along in Yona 1:5, 1:11-12, and 1:14. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Devarim | 01 Aug 2025 | 00:09:36 | |
Unusual parsing choices with unusual explanations. Follow along in Devarim 1:14, 1:41, Bemidbar 11:28, Devarim 1:1. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Ha'azinu | 21 Sep 2023 | 00:08:12 | |
How your instincts on the shva could fail you. Follow along in Devarim 32:7, 28:36, Shir Hashirm 8:2, and Devarim 32:32. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Rosh Hashanah | 14 Sep 2023 | 00:13:42 | |
Keeping "shemo levado" in its place this Rosh Hashanah. Follow along with Tehillim 47 and 24. You find the recordings quoted in this podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzYs5F-he8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rFlCibkONI Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Nitzavim Vayyeileh | 06 Sep 2023 | 00:22:13 | |
Moshe Ginsberg joins the podcast in a special edition for the 200th episode to talk about whatever we want to talk about. Follow along in Devarim 31:30, 29:18, 29:28, 31:26. A.Z. Idelsohn's books, refered to in this week's podcast: | |||
| Ki Tavo | 31 Aug 2023 | 00:03:59 | |
A clever infinitive construct, my light, and the holy/mighty of Israel/Jacob. Follow along in Devarim 28:55, Yeshayahu 60:1, 14, 16. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| 198 Ki Taitzai | 25 Aug 2023 | 00:06:33 | |
The number one and her father. Follow along in Devarim 24:5, 21:12-13. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Shofetim | 17 Aug 2023 | 00:05:58 | |
A couple of good mistakes and a great example of how the music changs the trup. Follow along in Devarim 18:14, 20:19, 21:3-4. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Reah | 10 Aug 2023 | 00:05:21 | |
Being careful on what you burn and destroy. Follow along in Devarim 12:2 and 13:7. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Eikev | 03 Aug 2023 | 00:07:39 | |
A land of wheat and also of barley, and why that awkward way of saying it shouldn't bother you. Follow along in Devarim 8:8, 9:19, 9:11. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Tisha B'Av | 27 Jul 2023 | 00:03:31 | |
Ariella joins me on the podcast to talk about her favorite terrible things. Follow along with Eicha 4:9, 2:19. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Va'etchanan | 26 Jul 2023 | 00:08:32 | |
How the bias of parsing works for the mesorah. Follow along in Devarim 1:39, 2:21, 2:40, 7:8. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Matot Masei | 24 Jul 2025 | 00:06:58 | |
A curious parsing and a manuscript advisory warning. Follow along in Bemidbar 30:5, 30:12, 30:8, 31:6. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Devarim | 20 Jul 2023 | 00:06:14 | |
Wavs in quotes, fearing and seeing, and little ones. Follow along in Devarim 1:22, 1:25, 1:29, 2:4, 1:39. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Matot-Masei | 13 Jul 2023 | 00:05:55 | |
Saving lives and letting live. Follow along in Bemidbar 31:15, Yehoshua 2:13, Bereshit 6:19, Shemot 1:17, Bemidbar 22:33, Bemidbar 31:18. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Pinchas | 06 Jul 2023 | 00:05:23 | |
Annoyingly obvious questions to ask people to make sure they are paying attention. Follow along in Bemidbar 28:16, 29:6, 29:11, 29:36. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Balak | 29 Jun 2023 | 00:05:43 | |
The double personality of Balak. Follow along in Bemidbar 22:6, 25, 37, 38, 23:8, 24:9. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Hukat | 22 Jun 2023 | 00:05:14 | |
An unusual construct, hitting the rock twice, and some mistakes from Moshe Ginsberg Follow along in Bemidbar 21:15, Bereishit 16:3, Bemidbar 20:11, 21:19, 21:27. | |||
| Korah | 15 Jun 2023 | 00:06:07 | |
Construct forms to be careful about and how I failed in the podcast's mission. Follow along in Bemidbar 17:21, 18:21, 18:24, 18:3, 18:32. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Shelah | 08 Jun 2023 | 00:05:00 | |
Three mistakes to avoid and closing the gate before dark. Follow along in Bemidbar 14:12, 14:23, 15:39, Yehoshua 2:5. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Behalotecha | 01 Jun 2023 | 00:03:50 | |
Nadav joins me on the podcast to share three things about his bar mitzvah parasha. Mazal tov! Follow along in Bemidbar 11:16, 11:24, 11:17, 11:25, 12:10 and 10:9. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Naso | 24 May 2023 | 00:04:44 | |
One of my son's mistake from Naso, and one thing I learned studying with my son for his bar mitzvah. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Shavuot | 24 May 2023 | 00:21:50 | |
Moshe Ginsberg joins me on the podcast to talk about the Codex Sassoon and the mesora in Megillat Rut. Follow along in Rut 4:20, 3:10, 12, 17. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Pinchas | 18 Jul 2025 | 00:04:01 | |
The original keves yayin, the unusual parasha break, and why I called this podcast Pinchas. Follow along in Bemidbar 28:14, 26:21. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Bemidbar | 18 May 2023 | 00:04:02 | |
Counting and commanding. Follow along in Bemidbar 1:46, Tehillim 19:9, Bemidbar 3:32, Bereshit 21:1. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Behar Bechukotai | 11 May 2023 | 00:05:38 | |
Definite articles, unusual forms, and important pashtas. Follow along in Vayrika 25:23, 25:30, 26:34, 26:43, 25:55, 26:8. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Emor | 04 May 2023 | 00:04:46 | |
An egaletarian error, two ways to eat, and one law. Follow along with Vayrika 21:13, 22:6, 22:12, 22:19, 24:22. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Ahrei Mot Kedoshim | 27 Apr 2023 | 00:05:26 | |
Shortening these, an unual parsing, a mistake not to make, and a mistake that wouldn't matter. Follow along in Vayrika 18:27, 19:2, 19:18, 20:11, 20:13. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Tazria-Metzora | 20 Apr 2023 | 00:05:11 | |
It appeated to me, a keves yayin, and a celebration of double parasha. Follow along in Vayrika 14:35, 15:4, 14:52-57 Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Shemini | 13 Apr 2023 | 00:05:42 | |
The difference (or not) between a chirik spelled with a yud or without. Follow along in Vayrikya 9:1, Devarim 30:5. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Pesach | 04 Apr 2023 | 00:03:37 | |
Four ways to be annoying at the seder. Follow along in the Tehillim 79:6, Yermiyahu 10:25. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Tzav | 30 Mar 2023 | 00:06:40 | |
A fiery discussion from the Sof Pasuk WhatsApp group. Follow along in Vayrika 13:4, 6:2 Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Vayikra | 23 Mar 2023 | 00:05:29 | |
Three fresh mistakes. Follow along with Vayrika 3:6. 4:12, 4:33, Bereshit 39:20, Vayrikra 5:10. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Vayekel Pekudei | 16 Mar 2023 | 00:05:04 | |
A couple of mistakes and things that should happen in the future. Follow along in Shemot 36:5, 36:38, 38:19, 40:3, 40:11, 40:14. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Balak | 11 Jul 2025 | 00:05:53 | |
On naming milary operations. Follow along in Bemidbar 23:24. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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| Ki Tisa | 09 Mar 2023 | 00:05:18 | |
A clever psik, quotes introduced with a pashta and an hilarious mistake in the haftorah. Follow along in Shemot 30:34, 32:1, 32:2, 32:18, 32:24, 33:1 and I Kings 18:19. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com. I'm running next month in the Jerusalem Marathon to raise funds for Crossroads Jerusalem. Click here to support me and this worthy organization: https://www.jgive.com/new/en/usd/donation-targets/91296
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| Purim | 06 Mar 2023 | 00:04:33 | |
Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com. I'm running next month in the Jerusalem Marathon to raise funds for Crossroads Jerusalem. Click here to support me and this worthy organization: https://www.jgive.com/new/en/usd/donation-targets/91296 Follow along in Ester 7:9, 9:24, 7:6, 3:15. A special drinking game edition for Purim. | |||
| Tetzave | 02 Mar 2023 | 00:05:16 | |
My wife's two favorite pesukim, an obscure form and an almost understandable mistake. Follow along in Shemot 28:34, 39:26, 29:35, 29:1, 29:12, Vayrika 9:9. I'm running next month in the Jerusalem Marathon to raise funds for Crossroads Jerusalem. Click here to support me and this worthy organization: https://www.crossroadsjerusalem.org/campaigns/ Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to torahreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
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