Inspiration for Weekly Reading
Reading the five books of the Torah in one year, every week a new section, is a way to build a personal relation to one of the most important classic texts around - irrespective if your Jewish or not. When read together with the traditional midrashic commentary, the effect is double: You learn to read the text with the appropriate attention, but you also get insights into the otherwise hardly accessible works of the sages - the most brilliant Jewish scholars through the centuries. While a podcast lecture can not really subsitute a real-life discussion with a steady study-partner, for me it works as inspiration and as a good supplement to the weekly reading (an other highly recommendable supplement I use is Nehama Leibowitz multi-volume ”Studies”). Not seldom, I disagree with certain points - yet, the very point of this kind of study is to expose yourself to a voice different than your own – an intelligent and respectful disagreement is a sine qua non in the process of working through the text in relation to your own life-experience. The Pardes podcast on the Parasha is by far the best I have found on iTunes.
adynamia via Apple Podcasts · Sweden · 09/06/08
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I studied at Pardes a few years ago and listening to this podcast has been a meaningful extension to a superb education.
David Levine via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 07/29/12
Wonderful and diverse parsha podcast with consistently thought-provoking lessons from a wide variety of voices.
Rapprosen via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 03/03/21
As a Pardes alum (90), I love reconnecting through their Torah.
heeeeeeyy via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 11/29/16
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