J.J. and Dr. Sarah Hammerschlag encounter a phenomenal high-school principle and genius: Emmanuel Levinas.  Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to converse with Other listeners.  Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Sarah Hammerschlag is the John Nuveen Professor of Religion and Literature, Philosophy of Religions and...

J.J. and Dr. Sara Labaton dive into the mysteries of Ibn Ezra’s revolutionary commentary on the Bible. This is episode 2 of our series on the ideas of Abraham Ibn Ezra.  Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to converse with other listeners about secret hermeneutics. Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Dr. Sara Labaton is...

J.J. and Dr. Sara Labaton dive into the mysteries of Ibn Ezra’s revolutionary commentary on the Bible. This is episode 2 of our series on the ideas of Abraham Ibn Ezra.  Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to converse with other listeners about secret hermeneutics. Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Dr. Sara Labaton is...

J.J. and Dr. Sara Labaton dive into the mysteries of Ibn Ezra’s revolutionary commentary on the Bible. This is episode 2 of our series on the ideas of Abraham Ibn Ezra.  Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to converse with other listeners about secret hermeneutics. Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Dr. Sara Labaton is...

J.J. and Dr. Tzvi Langermann enumerate many of the Ibn Ezra's most fascinating philosophical ideas. This is episode 1 of our series on the ideas of Abraham Ibn Ezra.  Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to get into spats with other listeners about Arithmology or Astrology.  Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Y. Tzvi...

J.J. and Dr. Shira Billet make sense of this remarkable Jewish idealist.  Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to get into spats with other listeners about (Neo-)Kantian epistemology and ethics.  Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Shira Billet is Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Ethics at JTS. She completed a PhD...

J.J. and Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal meditate on Talmudic responses to Christianity.  Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to get into arguments with other listeners about Monks, The Talmud, and Kabbalah.  Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Michal Bar-Asher Siegal is a faculty member at the Goldstein-Goren Department of...

J.J. and Dr. Yosef Bronstein resurrect some of the most fascinating ideas that animated the thought of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the 7th Lubavitcher Rebbe. This is part three of our mini-series on the intellectual history of Chabad Hasidut. Thank you to Rabbi Gary Huber for sponsoring this mini-series!  If you would like to support us directly please shoot us an email or visit torahinmotion.org/donate Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to argue with fellow listeners about...

J.J. and Dr. Reuven Leigh finally bring Chabad into the 20th century! They inspect the life and thought of the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe–Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn. This is part two of our mini-series on the intellectual history of Chabad Hasidut.  Thank you to Rabbi Gary Huber for sponsoring this mini-series!  If you would like to support us directly please shoot us an email or visit torahinmotion.org/donate Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to argue with fellow listeners about...

J.J. and Dr. Reuven Leigh finally bring Chabad into the 20th century! They inspect the life and thought of the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe–Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn. This is part two of our mini-series on the intellectual history of Chabad Hasidut.  Thank you to Rabbi Gary Huber for sponsoring this mini-series!  If you would like to support us directly please shoot us an email or visit torahinmotion.org/donate Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to argue with fellow listeners about...

J.J. and Dr. Eli Rubin revel in the traditional and rebellious thought of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, author of The Tanya, and first Rebbe of the Chabad Hasidic sect.  Thank you to Rabbi Gary Huber for sponsoring this mini-series!  If you would like to support us directly please shoot us an email or visit torahinmotion.org/donate Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to argue with fellow listeners about the Hasidim of Vitebsk vs. the Hasidim of Horodok.  Please rate and review the...

J.J. and Dr. Yair Furstenberg contextualize the ethical teachings of the Tannaim.  Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to get into arguments with other listeners about Seneca and Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai.  Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Yair Furstenberg is associate professor and currently serving as head of the...

J.J. and Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel comment on the happenings in Medieval Ashkenaz and add their spin on to the era of the Tosafists.   Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to get into arguments with other listeners about Rabbeinu Tam or the Rash MiSchantz.  Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel is the E....

J.J. and Dr. Aaron Segal freely choose to wade through the murky medieval and contemporary debates over the existence of free will.  Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to get into public arguments about Crescas and Spinoza.  Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Aaron Segal is Associate Professor of Philosophy and John and...

J.J. and Dr. Jacob Howland round up a storm of fascinating comparisons between Talmudic and Platonic methods of discourse.  Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Jacob Howland is Provost and Dean of the Intellectual Foundations Program at the University of Austin. He is the author of five books on Plato, Kierkegaard, and the Talmud....

J.J. and Dr. David Myers scientifically examine the thought and legacy of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.  Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! We welcome all complaints and compliments at [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center...

J.J. and Dr. Shai Secunda set Talmudic discourse ablaze. They put the Talmud in its Zoroastrian and Sasanian context, and have bloody good discussion about how Judaism interacted with its socio-religious environment in the first few centuries of the Common Era.  Don't forget to rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! Please send any complaints or compliments to [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Dr. Secunda is a...

J.J. and Dr. Joanna Weinberg make their way back to sunny 15th century Italy and the surrounding centuries to visit some of the more interesting Jewish characters of the Italian Renaissance. They weave their way through cross-cultural influences and intra-cultural tensions during this remarkable era of rebirth.  Don't forget to rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice! Please send any complaints or compliments to [email protected] For more information visit...

J.J. and Dr. Martin Goodman go antiquing! They discuss the most important Jewish historian of the Roman period–Josephus Flavius. What did he write? Who was he writing for? And what ideological framework motivated his histories?  Please send any complaints or compliments to [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Martin Goodman is Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College and the Oxford Centre...

J.J. and Dr. Susannah Heschel survey the fascinating life and brilliant ideas of Abraham Geiger. This guy was flagrantly influential. A practicing rabbi, a leader in the Wissenschaft das Judentums movement and a founder of Islamic studies in Europe, he was on the intellectual vanguard of the 19th century Reform movement, so strap in for a great conversation.  Please send any complaints or compliments to [email protected] For more information visit...

J.J. and Dr. Daniel Schwartz examine the convoluted legacy and enduring relevance of Spinoza. Our first mini-series!! Welcome to the second episode of our three-parter covering friend of the pod, Benedict "Barukh" Spinoza. Please send any complaints or compliments to [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Daniel B. Schwartz is a professor of modern Jewish European and American intellectual and cultural history at George Washington University in...

J.J. and Dr. Yitzhak Melamed untangle Spinoza's famed Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and assess the religiosity of its author, a supposed atheist.  Our first mini-series!! Welcome to the second episode of our three-parter covering friend of the pod, Benedict "Barukh" Spinoza. Please send any complaints or compliments to [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins...

Dr. Rebecca Goldstein and J.J. communicate the story of Spinoza's herem and outline the radicalism of his Ethics.  Our first mini-series!! Welcome to the first episode of our three-parter covering friend of the pod, Benedict "Barukh" Spinoza. Please send any complaints or compliments to [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Rebecca Newberger Goldstein graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College and immediately went on to graduate work at...

J.J. and Dr. Eric Lawee comment on Rashi's astounding career, and refuse to gloss over his contentious journey to join the Jewish canon.    Please send any complaints or compliments to [email protected] For more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcasts Eric Lawee is a professor in the Department of Bible at Bar-Ilan University, where he teaches the history of Jewish biblical scholarship. His Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a...