Episodes
Stressing out about the stress and other ways to ways to make a fuss.
Follow along in Bemidbar 11:8, 10-35-36, 11:26, 8:21, 9:17-18.
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Published 06/20/24
Musings from the landscape of Naso.
Follow along in Bemidbar 5:27, 6:9, 6:14, 6:16-17.
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Published 06/13/24
Reading Rut, then and now.
Follow along in Rut 2:4, 4:11, 4:9, Bereshit 29:5, Rut 3:13.
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Published 06/10/24
3! 70! 200!
Follow along in Bemidbar 3:46, 3:39, 3:43 and 3:48.
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Published 06/06/24
Taking care on stresses and one of my favorite construct forms.
Follow along in Vayikra 26:18, 21, 25, 27:30, 32.
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Published 05/30/24
Constucts just like Behar, an archaic form, and how I explain bond prices and interest rates to new investors.
Follow along in Vayrika 25:5-6, 9, 29, 25:21, 26:34, 25:51-52.
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Published 05/23/24
Three pesukim to look forward to this week.
Follow along in 21:23 , 23:17, 24:5.
Published 05/16/24
More ways to parse, including on our favorite pasuk.
Follow along in Vayikra 20:17, 20:18, 20:22.
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Published 05/09/24
The unexpected flexibility in how to parse the lowest level of the mafsikim.
Follow along in Vayrika 16:29, 16:10, Bereshit 27:33, Vayrika 16:12.
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Published 05/02/24
A little bit of background on the music for everyone's favorite sing along.
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.
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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.
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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..
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Published 03/14/24
Talking about vowels
Follow along in Shemot 37:13, 36:34, 36:10, 38:18, 36:37, 35:5.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Published 02/14/24
Where pauses are a matter of law.
Follow along in Shemot 22:2, 21:22-23, 21:36, 21:32.
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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.
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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
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Published 01/25/24
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.
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Published 01/19/24