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Judaism for the Thinking Person

Rabbi Nadav Caine

Scholarly, Compassionate, and Practical Jewish Teachings on God, Prayer, Torah and Kabbalah with Rabbi Nadav Caine (ravnadav)

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16:12

Our Leaders Hardening Their Hearts When We Need Them...

Judaism for the Thinking Person ·

2020/03/30

The beginning of Leviticus spells out a fourfold process of bringing order to society and keeping at bay the threat that chaos can invade and tear our system to shreds. The fourfold process involves the expiation of sin, a process that adds two middle steps of relationship to God and to oneself that is often missing from our typical American formulation. I am used to the model that skips the whole notion of sin: rather, society works because if you break the rules you get punished, and that fear

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30:35

Shalom Bayit And All Getting Along Sharing a Small...

Judaism for the Thinking Person ·

2020/03/25

In this Zoom presentation, I share ideas for creating new balance ("Tiferet") in reconstructing our home systems when conflict, a sense of failure, miscommunication, mess, and frustration can arise when many are sharing a small space. There is a handout that goes with this called "Shalom in the Home During Social Isolation" which can be found by clicking

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17:39

Torah Ideas for Rethinking our Relationship to Time...

Judaism for the Thinking Person ·

2020/03/15

The first parashah that accompanies this novel period of social distancing has lessons to teach us in how to best use the time we now have returned to us. The parashah begins with the command that a (naturally antimicrobial) copper-brass laver of water is placed in the central courtyard of the tabernacle and that the Levites must wash their hands between every interaction of service lest they die. Synagogues today incorporate the adapted features of the Tabernacle with the exceptions of the incense

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11:56

What do we do about Slavery in the Torah? Ein...

Judaism for the Thinking Person ·

2020/02/24

One of the halakhot of the Torah service is "Ein Midalgin ba-Torah," one may not skip [words, verses, or chapters] during the Torah reading." Underlying this strict practical rule is an important value: we must pay attention to all verses of the Torah, even uncomfortable ones, like those about slavery. In this sermon, I relate this principle to Exodus chapter 21, which includes rules about slavery rather than eliminates it; and then I look at a Bible that actually did skip verses, the so-called

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17:48

The Story of Five Puns: Making Community at Mount Sinai

Judaism for the Thinking Person ·

2020/02/17

In Exodus chapter 19, there is a swirl of mixtures and transitions of singulars and plurals in the Hebrew that don't translate into English. Here, I take you through them --even for those with no Hebrew knowledge-- and show how they tell the hidden meaning of what "community" really means at our "marriage covenant" to God at Mount Sinai. How do we go from our Jewish identity as associated with family and heritage and affiliation [the words "House of Jacob" and "Children of Israel" and relating to

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15:37

From Hollywood to Hazor: The Mother of Israel and the...

Judaism for the Thinking Person ·

2020/02/10

What may just be the oldest section of the entire Bible? The Song of Deborah (in the Book of Judges), the ancient altar song about the prophetess Deborah uniting the Israelite tribes to attack and defeat the Canaanite king at Hazor, which is a archaeologically verified. She was known as "The Mother of Israel." As Jews, we do not have a Father of our Country, we have the Mother of our Country. What is her story arc? How would it be taken today? I put this powerful truth (that she is real, that

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09:29

"What is God?" Part Two: Locusts, God, and the...

Judaism for the Thinking Person ·

2020/02/03

The planet is in the midst of the worst locust plague in 70 years. Why locusts as the plague beginning Parashat Bo in Exodus? What do they signify? Here I continue the implications of the theology of God's name explained in the previous podcast. Those implications are that in order to address the truth of interconnectedness of our system, we must act collectively, and not live with the illusion that individual actions can combat the illnesses in our system. Individual actions, while admirable,

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14:27

What is God? The Scientific Explanation of the...

Judaism for the Thinking Person ·

2020/01/28

Judaism has long been in a theological crisis. Under the shadow of classical Christian supernaturalism and American evangelicalism, most Jews tell me they don't believe in God because they believe in scientific explanations of Biblical narrative instead. In this sermon, I take this on directly, arguing that the Torah juxtaposes the revelation of God's name as God's essence (in Exodus chapter 6) and the 10 plagues to make a theological point that most of us would agree with: God's essence is the

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14:23

The Failing Language of Masculinity, For Moses and...

Judaism for the Thinking Person ·

2020/01/19

Moses, having been raised by a team of women, "goes out" to experience the world of men when he becomes a teenager. He experiences fighting and injustice, and when he looks "to and fro" to see if any man is going to do anything about it, sees that no "man" is willing to step up. So he steps up himself. He then sees two Hebrew men fighting, one the aggressor and the other the victim, and he tries to engage them in conversation to stop the behavior. But like a male locker room, rather than talk at

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17:45

The Selfie and Your Halakhic Display

Judaism for the Thinking Person ·

2020/01/09

The Rabbis argue whether the first part of the Joseph saga displays Joseph's arrogance or whether he has no such intent. I relate this to the act of taking a selfie, or posting successes and photos on social media... so similar to the Rabbis' concern that Joseph puts too much attention into his personal appearance and promise. I then conduct an obscure halakhic exercise: how do the legal codes understand "the right way to have an aliyah to the Torah?" The Halakhic concern is that while a person

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