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Ta Shma

Hadar Institute

Bringing you recent lectures, classes, and programs from the Hadar Institute, Ta Shma is where you get to listen in on the beit midrash. Come and listen on the go, at home, or wherever you are. Hosted by Rabbi Avi Killip of the Hadar Institute.

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R. Avi Strausberg on Pride Month 2024: Take This With...

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2024/06/03

I am blessed to have three kids, aged 9, 6, and 2—this means a lot of first days of daycare and school. These first days are always exciting for us and for them. We know that they will make new friends, have new experiences, grow and learn in unimaginable ways. Yet they are also days filled with trepidation; they set off for new and unknown experiences for which we can’t accompany them. On each of these days, we tuck a family photo in their backpack in a safe place.&nb...

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R. David Kasher on Parashat BeHukkotai : The...

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2024/05/29

One of Rashi’s comments in this week’s parashah highlights the rabbinic tradition of interpreting a feature of Hebrew script known as “אותיות חסירות ויתרות” (otiot haseirot v’yeteirot), “missing and extra letters.” The Hebrew alphabet has no vowel letters, and in most Hebrew writing, the vowel notations (nekudot) are not included; we know how to pronounce words based on context and tradition. But certain vowels are sometimes “carried” by a silent letter, either a vav (ו) or a yod ...

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R. Avi Strausberg on Lag Ba'Omer: From Wave to Wave...

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2024/05/26

When my dad died in my early 20s, I remember being wowed by the ways in which grief came in waves. One minute, I was crying and couldn’t imagine ever moving through my sadness and several hours later, I was surprised to find myself laughing—actually able to laugh—within the first days of my dad’s death. With confidence, I realized, this was the way it was going to be. Each time that I cried and each time that I laughed, I knew it wouldn’t be the last time. The grief an...

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R. David Kasher on Parashat BeHar: The Fragrance of...

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2024/05/22

One of the hallmark Rabbinic interpretive techniques is the identification of parallel wording in two different sections of the Torah. In legal interpretation, this is the foundation for the second of R. Yishmael’s “13 principles by which the Torah is interpreted”: the gezeirah shavah, or “the rule of equivalence.” This principle, first quoted in the name of Hillel the Elder, posits that if the same word or phrase appears in two distinct legal cases in the Torah, that is an indication that we...

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R. Avi Strausberg on Pesah Sheini: Demanding a Seat...

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2024/05/20

I am lucky to live a life with no food sensitivities. I can eat what I want and I’m happy to be an “easy guest,” quick to assure hosts that I have no special food needs. However, several years ago, in an attempt to identify the cause of my migraines, I found myself a person suddenly with many food sensitivities I was told to avoid. I went from being a person who could eat everything to a person who approached each meal with anxiety, wondering what food I would find to fill m...

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R. David Kasher on Parashat Emor: Recounting the Omer

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2024/05/15

Every year, by good calendrical fortune, we read in Parashat Emor the commandment of Sefirat ha-Omer, the “Counting of the Omer,” during the period in which we actually count the Omer. This moment of sync between reading and ritual presents us with an opportunity to recognize our contemporary practice as continuous from the words of the Torah. Yet when we begin to read through those words, we quickly see that our counting ritual today looks very different from the original mitzvah...

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R. Avi Strausberg on Yom HaZikaron/Yom Ha'Atzma’ut:...

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2024/05/13

I have always found it difficult to find an observance of Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’Atzma’ut that feels meaningful and authentic as a Jew living in the Diaspora. In Israel, the observance of these holidays is effortless and all-encompassing: you simply have to be present and you are in it, flowing from the intensity of Yom HaZikaron to the joy of Yom Ha’Atzma’ut. It’s the music on the radio, it’s the tzfirah (siren) in the streets that brings everything to a halt in a moment of sil...

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R. David Kasher on Parashat Kedoshim: Codes in...

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2024/05/08

The style and content of Parashat Kedoshim remind us immediately of an earlier reading: Parashat Mishpatim—back in the Book of Exodus, just after the revelation. Both parashiyyot are composed almost entirely of dense legal code: one law after another, for chapter after chapter. And both open with a framing statement naming a value category that characterizes the laws that follow.With this structural similarity, the Torah places the two primary values named by the two codes—justice...

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R. Avi Strausberg on Yom HaShoah: Power and...

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2024/05/06

For many of us, the past six months have been an education in powerlessness. From where I sit in America, I felt powerless hearing about the brutality and depravity of October 7. I felt powerless sitting comfortably in my home while day after day people were held hostage in underground darkness, uncared for and unseen. I felt powerless as the death toll of Palestinians civilians rose and Gaza’s population fell into immense suffering. I could do my one minute a day to c...

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R. David Kasher on Parashat Aharei Mot: The Goat Man

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2024/05/02

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R. David Kasher on Parashat Metzora: Like a Leper...

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2024/04/17

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Dr. Jeremy Tabick: Why Are There Four Cups at the Seder?

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2024/04/15

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R. David Kasher on Parashat Tazria: Covenantal...

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2024/04/10

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R. Elie Kaunfer: Is the Seder Really So Ordered?

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2024/04/08

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R. David Kasher on Parashat Shemini: Waters of Hope

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2024/04/03

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Jewish Law and Jewish Values: A Conversation with R....

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2024/04/01

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R. David Kasher on Parashat Tzav: Four Links in a Chain

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2024/03/27

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Making Sense of Insensible...

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2024/03/25

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R. David Kasher on Parashat Vayikra: A Prehistory of...

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2024/03/20

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R. Avi Strausberg on Purim: Look to the World and...

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2024/03/18

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