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The Oral Talmud

Institute for the Next Jewish Future

22 episodes

1 week ago

An exploration of the Talmud through the “traditionally radical” lens pioneered by Benay Lappe. Whether you are a beginner to Talmud study or a long-time learner, by listening in on Benay Lappe’s study partnership with Dan Libenson as they explore foundational stories and material from the Talmud, you will discover the how-to manual that the ancient Rabbis left behind for future generations to help us re-imagine a new version of Judaism after the previous version “crashes.”

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An exploration of the Talmud through the “traditionally radical” lens pioneered by Benay Lappe. Whether you are a beginner to Talmud study or a long-time learner, by listening in on Benay Lappe’s study partnership with Dan Libenson as they explore foundational stories and material from the Talmud, you will discover the how-to manual that the ancient Rabbis left behind for future generations to help us re-imagine a new version of Judaism after the previous version “crashes.”

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Religion & Spirituality

Episodes (20/22)

The Oral Talmud

Episode 20: Transforming Story into Law with Jane Kanarek

“I want activist reads to also be responsible reads, which is why I’m so committed to people being anchored and being able to actually read these classical texts.” - Jane Kanarek

1 week ago

57 minutes 45 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 19: The Elu v’Elu Episode

“Opinions that are contradictory to one another, the opposite of one another are both the words of God.” - Dan Libenson

2 weeks ago

54 minutes 21 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 18: What Tisha b’Av Can Learn From Yom Kippur

“We have to imagine that everything that we love today, or don't love, might end up in the Tisha b’Av of the future.” - Dan Libenson

3 weeks ago

54 minutes 47 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 17: The Iranian Talmud with Shai Secunda

“I love the world of the Talmud. I love the fact that they need to justify, they wanna justify, they wanna talk and talk and talk; the way that people who are less socially confident sometimes find themselves doing, when we're in a situation where we're in a new community, and we just, you know, ramble! That's something I love about the Talmud.” - Shai Secunda

4 weeks ago

55 minutes 46 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 16: The Greatest Voices Are Anonymous with Daniel Boyarin

“I find it deeply moving and worthy of homilies that arguably the most influential voices in the history of Jewish thinking are anonymous.” - Daniel Boyarin

1 month ago

45 minutes 31 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 15: Svara’ing Your Svara

“It's only when you know why, and the essence behind the whys, that you are able to create. You're able to then be free of the momentary form of a practice, which is trying to achieve a certain goal, and create other forms that achieve that same goal.” - Benay Lappe

1 month ago

1 hour 3 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 14: Reading the Angel of Death with Ruth Calderon

“Even if the good book was not written by God, the Talmudic page is often a good place to encounter the Divine.” - Ruth Calderon

1 month ago

50 minutes 59 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 13: Using Tradition to Overturn Tradition

“You don't have to stand outside of the tradition to fix it. If you realize where the tradition is wrong, that doesn't put you outside of it. That puts you squarely in the center of it, standing on the shoulders of the greatest ones who have the ability to, from the inside of tradition, using the Torah’s mechanisms and ideas to overturn it.” - Benay Lappe

1 month ago

59 minutes 51 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 12: The Ideal Person

“And in Jewish law, if you get 23 Jews to agree on something? You know something is wrong!” - Benay Lappe

2 months ago

1 hour 9 seconds

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Episode 11: The Broken Social Contract

“You’ve got to decide with whom and where your voice is going to be heeded. Where are you going to have the power to effect change? That’s your olam. If we get to this big world, we can become actually overcome with powerlessness. But I think that’s the driving question of the bottom line of this text. What’s your world? Who’s your kahal?” - Benay Lappe

2 months ago

58 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 10: The Obligation to Protest

“You’ve got to decide with whom and where your voice is going to be heeded. Where are you going to have the power to effect change? That’s your olam. If we get to this big world, we can become actually overcome with powerlessness. But I think that’s the driving question of the bottom line of this text. What’s your world? Who’s your kahal?” - Benay Lappe

2 months ago

52 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 9: Turning Around

“That was the rabbinic genius, to say that that which is wholly new also is given from God at Mount Sinai. That’s a genius sleight of hand that allows you to feel a sense of continuity and connection and history and sacredness in what is absolutely new.” - Benay Lappe

2 months ago

57 minutes 2 seconds

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Episode 8: Dreams and Discovery

“I don’t have to win; I don’t have to get the person to capitulate to me. I don’t have to hear the person’s apology – as long as I’ve gotten the world to be the way I need the world to be.” - Dan Libenson

3 months ago

54 minutes 1 second

The Oral Talmud

Episode 7: No More Gatekeeping

“There are barriers being put up that say ‘You’re not a good Jew if you don’t do it our way’ – but as soon as those barriers come down, there’s actually a huge interest! And then the question is: What do you do with that engagement? What does that involvement produce?” - Dan Libenson

3 months ago

55 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 6: Narrating the Law with Barry Wimpfheimer

“In my book, I refer to ‘The Talmud's Golden Old Age.’ I was a little reluctant to use this terminology, because who knows if it's the golden old age? This could be the Midlife Period of the Talmud. We have no idea where we are historically!” - Barry Wimpfheimer

3 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode 5: Excommunicating Dissent

“Is it inevitable and necessary to get the Rabbi Eliezers out of the room? Or is part of the story saying, ‘You actually need to keep him in the room. We understand that unity or progress or getting everybody rowing in the same direction is important, but you don’t take people out of the room.’” - Benay Lappe

3 months ago

52 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 4: Retelling the History with David Kraemer

“What the sages had was imagination and boldness.They were deeply rooted in the inherited tradition, and, rather than that rooting holding them back, the rooting allowed them to go forward.” - David Kraemer

3 months ago

58 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 3: Misquoting God

The rabbis must have been leaving us a message. It says, "Please do to us what we did to God and whoever put the Torah together. We played fast and loose with what they were saying directly, and we understand that that means you’re going to do that to us, and we want you to." - Dan Libenson

4 months ago

54 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode 2: Voiding the Torah

“Maybe the reason they were undoing the original covenant was to give themselves a little breathing room, saying, ‘G🪀d actually gave us permission to play.’” - Benay Lappe

4 months ago

51 minutes 48 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 1: Rebooting Judaism

“If you pay attention to the folks for whom the system isn’t working, you’ll know how the system will eventually not work for everybody.” - Benay Lappe

4 months ago

48 minutes 31 seconds