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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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34:46

R. Shai Held: Biblical Theology in a Time of Climate...

Ta Shma ·

2025/09/01

What can the Bible teach us about navigating our way through a time of climate emergency? In this series, R. Shai Held explores three key biblical texts that offer differing (but perhaps complementary) approaches to understanding our place in this divinely created and much-more-than-human world. Recorded in Winter 2025. Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/mh_torah_source_sheets/HeldClimateChange2025Part3.pdf

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Shoftim: Even So

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2025/08/27

What do you do when you feel—or when you know—that because of your actions, you are entirely alone in the world?

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Rosh Chodesh Elul: Teshuvah:...

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2025/08/25

Thinking about our own transgressions and repentance is hard, and so it makes sense that we often latch on to metaphors to help us think about these ideas. Perhaps the strangest metaphor I know of appears in the Zohar.

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Re'eih: Mourning as...

Ta Shma ·

2025/08/20

There is something about our relationship with God that holds us back from unbridled grief.

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R. Shai Held: Biblical Theology in a Time of Climate...

Ta Shma ·

2025/08/18

What can the Bible teach us about navigating our way through a time of climate emergency? In this series, R. Shai Held explores three key biblical texts that offer differing (but perhaps complementary) approaches to understanding our place in this divinely created and much-more-than-human world. Recorded in Winter 2025. Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/mh_torah_source_sheets/HeldClimateChange2025Part2.pdf

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Eikev: Back to Eden

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2025/08/13

Of course the Jews thought that they would starve when they left Egypt. In Moshe’s retelling of the story of the mann (manna), that is deliberate. There is something about the mann that is inextricably linked to hunger—or, at least, our fear of it.

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R. Shai Held: Biblical Theology in a Time of Climate...

Ta Shma ·

2025/08/11

What can the Bible teach us about navigating our way through a time of climate emergency? In this series, R. Shai Held explores three key biblical texts that offer differing (but perhaps complementary) approaches to understanding our place in this divinely created and much-more-than-human world. Recorded in Winter 2025. Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/mh_torah_source_sheets/HeldClimateChange2025Part1.pdf

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Va'Ethanan: With All Your...

Ta Shma ·

2025/08/06

There is no such thing, for a Jew, as loving God without loving human beings as well. Our love for God is bound up with our love for others: for the parents who taught us His name, and the grandparents who taught them. For the children we raise to know Him. For every ancestor, too far back for us to remember their names, who remembered God’s covenant with our people and dedicated their lives to transmitting that memory.

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R. Shai Held on the Jewish Philanthropy Podcast:...

Ta Shma ·

2025/08/04

In this episode of What Gives?, The Jewish Philanthropy Podcast, JFN CEO Andrés Spokoiny welcomes Rabbi Shai Held to discuss the claim that love is Judaism’s central value. Together, they confront common misconceptions about the "God of the Old Testament," reflect on theology in the shadow of October 7, and consider how Jewish philanthropy can help nurture a more compassionate and spiritually engaged community. Held makes the case for a Judaism rooted in justice, mercy, and human dignity—and ...

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Devarim: The Torah of Exile

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2025/07/30

The danger, when the two tribes decide to stay on the other side of the Jordan, is not just that we might become two peoples: it is that we may develop two Torahs.

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Tisha B'Av: Between Exodus...

Ta Shma ·

2025/07/28

One of the poetic laments we recite on Tisha b’Av is the poem that begins Eish tukad bekirbi (“A fire shall burn within me”). An acrostic, each stanza of the poem juxtaposes something glorious that occurred during the Exodus from Egypt, with something equally ignoble from our exile from Jerusalem.

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Mattot-Mas'ei: On the Other...

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2025/07/23

Moshe’s real concern, when Reuven and Gad ask to remain on their side of the Jordan, is the way that distance can split families apart.

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Dr. Jeremy Tabick: Is Tisha B'Av Eternal?

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2025/07/21

Both Talmuds record that Rabbi, one of the last leading sages of the Tannaim, tried to abolish Tisha B'Av. Why would someone want to abolish this fast day? Through this surprising example and its aftermath, this class explores the role of myth and history in the Jewish calendar. Recorded on Tisha B'Av 2024. Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/mh_torah_source_sheets/Tabick9AvEternal2024.pdf

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Pinhas: A Father’s Daughter

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2025/07/16

Daughters of fathers are different from sons. Daughters, as they grow, do not take on their father’s image. A daughter’s voice will not deepen into her father’s baritone. Her jaw will not sharpen to resemble his, and, in all likelihood, she will not reach his height. Rarely will anyone ever be startled when they encounter her on the street after her father’s death, thinking for a moment, because of their resemblance, that they are seeing a ghost.

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R. Dani Passow: Reading the Rabbis Part 3

Ta Shma ·

2025/07/14

The Talmud is notoriously complex, and its stories are no exception. In this class, we will learn strategies for how to understand these texts such as structural analysis, to explore the narrative flow and construction; interiority, to uncover the unstated emotions and motivations of the sages; and contextual analysis, to place each story within the broader tapestry of Talmudic and rabbinic literature. Through these and other tools, we’ll gain a richer understanding of the inner worlds of the...

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Balak: Turning to See

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2025/07/09

The moment when Bilaam can’t see the angel is familiar to us—too familiar for comfort. We’ve seen this scene before: a hidden angel, an unusual occurrence, the word of God. We’ve seen it all at the burning bush (sneh), the moment when Moshe, our greatest prophet, receives his first mission: speech.

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on the 17th of Tammuz: The...

Ta Shma ·

2025/07/08

There shouldn’t be much ambiguity about why 17 Tammuz is a fast day; the Mishnah relates five tragic events that took place on this date.

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Hukkat: Miriam of Words

Ta Shma ·

2025/07/02

It is Miriam who was always the speaker of the three siblings. Miriam, who, according to the Talmud, was also called Puah because of the sounds she made to soothe women in childbirth as their babies emerged into the world. Miriam, who used her words to stand up to her father when he separated from his wife, insisting that a chance at life, however small, was better than no chance at all. Miriam who quickly figured out what words would ensure that Pharaoh's daughter would adopt Mos...

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R. Avi Strausberg on Pride Month 2025: Flags of Love

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2025/06/30

The Song of Songs (2:4) imagines a boundless love between two lovers in which one lover says of the other, “his flag of love was upon me.” That’s how I felt at Pride this month—surrounded by flags of love.

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Korah: Pretended Perfection

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2025/06/25

The most insidious part of Korach’s claim is that it is a lie we desperately want to believe.

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