Episodes
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Published 04/21/24
Unusual frames fro leftover oil, but at least you can use that to remember the trup. Follow along in Vayrika 14:3-4, 15-18, 27-29. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 04/18/24
Tips and trips for navigating the challenges of Tazria.  Follow along in 12:4-5, 13:3-4, 12:5, 12:7-8, 12:14-15, 13:4, 13:20, 13:23, 13:28, 13:30-32, 13:47, 13:53 and 13:58.  Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 04/11/24
Changes to the wav when connecting words with "and," the use of a wav to express a hyopothetical, and the (not necessarily) unsual form for asking a question that looks like the definite article. Follow along in Vayrika 9:3-4, 7:23, 10:19.. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 04/04/24
Taking care with the dagesh chazak and watching out for what the ritually clean man is up to. Follow along with Vayikra 6:14, 7:30, Bemidbar 19:18. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].    
Published 03/28/24
Moshe Ginsberg is back on the podcast to talk about why we have a hataf kamatz on מרדכי that ins’t just a sheva na. Follow along in Ester 2:5, Bereshit 27:38, 3:23, Devarim 32:13, Ester 4:11, 6:1. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 03/20/24
Plenty of constructs to watch out for this week.  Follow along in Vayikra 1:9, 3:16, 1:2, 2:1, 1:16, 4:12, 5:9.
Published 03/17/24
Nadav's insight on how the sof aliyot relate a theme and whether this week's parasha is Pekudei or Fekudei. Follow along in Shemot 8:6. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 03/14/24
Talking about vowels Follow along in Shemot 37:13, 36:34, 36:10, 38:18,  36:37, 35:5. Click here to support Crossroads and our 5K run in the Jerusalem marathon: https://causematch.com/crossroads_jlm/142416 
Published 03/07/24
Nadav joins me on the podcast to discuss an entirely regular parsing of "bread and water".  Follow along in Melachim Alef 18:4, Devarim 23:5 and Bereshit 14:8. Nadav is running the 5K in Jerusalem next week to raise money for Crossroads. Click here to support Nadav's run: https://causematch.com/crossroads_jlm/142416
Published 02/29/24
Tani joins the podcast to share his version of the telisha, discuss an unusal parsing that we can't solve, and the time he was accosted for saying שתי as a sheva nah. Follow along in Shemot 27:21, 28:6, 29:40, 18:8, 28:7, 28:26, Vayrika 23:17, Shemot 29:41, 25:9. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 02/22/24
Josh Lennon joins the podcast to talk about the difference in how to sing the telisha ketana versus the telisha gedola. Follow along in Shemot 27:1, 25:33, 37:19 and Melachim Alef 6:6, 5:30. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 02/14/24
Where pauses are a matter of law. Follow along in Shemot 22:2, 21:22-23, 21:36, 21:32.   Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 02/08/24
Plenty of keves yayin and a thouroughly embarrasing mistake. Follow along in Shemot 19:18, 21-22, 20:4, and Yeshayahu 6:13. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 02/01/24
Parsing Shabbat properly, reading about who exactly was on the banks of the sea, and believing in Hashem and Moshe exactly like it should be. Follow along in Shemot 16:26-27, 14:30, 14:31, Bereshit 32:11, Bemidbar 15:39, and in this podcast from Rabbi Jeremy Wieder: https://youtu.be/GKgIrnV9aBw?si=RguxwWm2_ke8S5Yi Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 01/25/24
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Remedial segolate training, a keves yayin, and unusual parsing accross pesukim. Follow along in Yermiyahu 46:23, Shemot 12:10, 12:27-28, 12:21. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 01/19/24
Mistaken trup and fun with frames. Follow along in Shemot 9:9, 9:19, 9:23 and 9:31-32. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 01/11/24
Lord, sir, and sirs, poor and afflicted, and a misplaced priest of Midyan. Follow along in Shemot 4:10, Bereishit 19:2, Shemot 3:7, 4:31, 3:1. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 01/04/24
A tricky sort of wav consecutive and talking about what imperfects can, will, may, and should mean. Follow along in Bereishit 48:7, 48:20.  
Published 12/28/23
How to have your daughter help you not make mistakes, and how no one is safe from inspiring podcasts... even if you are just giving a devar Torah.
Published 12/21/23
How to drive me crazy and the mother of all paranthetical statements. Follow along in Bereishit 43:18, 43:29, 44:17, 43:1, 44:1-6. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 12/14/23
Peretz and the pesik. Follow along in Bereishit 37:29, 39:9, Bemidbar 7:19. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 12/07/23
Not being humbled by anyone talking incorrectly about the trup this week. Follow along with Bereishit 32:11, Bemidbar 15:39, Bereishit 14:19, 47:15. Provide your feedback or join the WhatsApp group by sending an email to [email protected].  
Published 11/30/23
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 [email protected].  
Published 11/23/23