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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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8:38

R. Tali Adler on Parashat BeHar-BeHukkotai: Breaking...

Ta Shma ·

2025/05/21

When it comes to the enslavement of Jews, God gives us two imperatives. First, strive to be like God. Failing that, resist the temptation to become like the Egyptians.

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R. Shai Held: Psalm for Friday

Ta Shma ·

2025/05/19

The psalms attached liturgically to each day of the week are often mumbled over quickly, without much attention to their meaning. In this series, we'll engage in careful literary-theological readings of these psalms, looking at how various midrashim interpret the psalms, and bring new meaning to this part of our daily prayers. Key themes explored will include the idea that God creates the world by subduing the chaotic forces that threaten life; the notion that a concern for justice is what ma...

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6:58

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Lag Ba'Omer: The Paradox of...

Ta Shma ·

2025/05/16

What makes Lag Ba’Omer, the 33rd day of the Omer, special? Why has this day become an oasis of relief, and even celebration, amidst the generally mournful period between Pesah and Shavuot? The Talmud tells us simply that one year, R. Akiva’s 24,000 students all died between Pesah and Shavuot; a post-talmudic tradition asserts that the plague that felled them came to an end specifically on the 33rd day of the Omer. Something about this day ended the catastrophe that befell th...

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7:40

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Emor: A Tale of Two Structures

Ta Shma ·

2025/05/14

Parashat Emor features two types of ritual buildings: the first, the mishkan (tabernacle), later transformed into the beit ha-mikdash (Temple); and the second, a sukkah. We encounter the mikdash this week, mostly in the form of limits on who may serve in it and how they must conduct themselves. Those who may serve there are not allowed to engage with the world as other Jews are: kohanim (priests) are not permitted any contact with the dead, except for their closest relatives.&nbs...

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Pesah Sheini: The Afterglow...

Ta Shma ·

2025/05/12

When you stop to think about it, Pesah Sheini is a very strange holiday, with a motivation that would be incomprehensible for almost any other festival. As we read in Bemidbar 9, some people were ritually impure on the 14th of Nisan—the eve of Pesah—and therefore unable to perform the foundational mitzvah of slaughtering and eating a paschal offering. They ask for a second chance, and God grants it: On the 14th of the following month, Iyyar, they may slaughter their lamb.

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7:49

R. Tali Adler on Aharei Mot-Kedoshim: Two Wounds

Ta Shma ·

2025/05/07

Yom Kippur, depending on who tells its story, is animated by one of two central wounds.

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33:02

R. Avi Strausberg: A God of Truth?

Ta Shma ·

2025/05/05

The Talmud teaches us that God is a God of truth who it would seem values honesty. Yet, what does that mean for all of our questions and doubts? Is there a limit to how honest we can be and are there situations in which another value trumps honesty for the sake of something greater? This class, which is part 1 of a 3 part series, will turn to Talmud, midrash, and poetry to explore intellectual honesty, accuracy in language, and the role of questions in our relationships with God. Recorded in ...

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7:04

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Tazria-Metzora: The...

Ta Shma ·

2025/04/30

Each of us was brought into this world by someone who allowed their body to become home to a stranger. This is what mothers do before we meet our children: watch, sometimes in wonder, and sometimes in grief, as the bodies which were once ours alone grow, bend, ache, and change in ways that make us unrecognizable to ourselves. Feel our ribs widen, our bodies force themselves apart, to create room for new life. Bind ourselves to a person whose face we have never seen.

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6:20

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on HaZikaron/Yom Ha'Atzma’ut:...

Ta Shma ·

2025/04/28

Although it eventually won out, it was not always obvious that “Hatikvah” would be the Israeli national anthem. There were other competitors, and various critiques of the poem written by Naphtali Hertz Imber. Among those critiques was a voice from at least some religious Zionists who thought the work too secular to reflect the religious import of the new state. Some advocated instead for Psalm 126 (often known as Shir ha-Ma’alot), as the national anthem.

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R. Tali Adler on Shemini: The Question in the Middle

Ta Shma ·

2025/04/23

Vayikra is a book that is concerned with the holy and the profane; the pure and the impure. Nearly every mitzvah in Vayikra contains these categories. The Jewish people are told that they are to be kadosh because God is kadosh. In Vayikra, it is the holy that is the primary pathway to God. The mishkan (tabernacle), the center of holiness on earth, is the pathway for that connection.

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Yom HaShoah: Love in Light...

Ta Shma ·

2025/04/21

It shouldn’t be possible to say such a thing, but I have spent most of my life taking the Holocaust for granted. My father of blessed memory was a child survivor; my mother, she should live a long life, is herself the child of survivors. I have no memory of learning about the Holocaust, no recollection of a parent telling me what it was, of what happened there. It is as if my brain came into the world pre-seared with this knowledge, my father’s screaming nightmares a “normal...

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Tzav: Ashes to Ashes

Ta Shma ·

2025/04/09

The burnt ashes of the korbanot (sacrifices), piled on the altar, represent the intermingled prayers and dreams, experiences and regrets, of the Jewish people.

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Pesah: The Yom Kippur Before...

Ta Shma ·

2025/04/07

We are doing a lot of prep work this week. We are cleaning our homes, kashering pots and cutlery, making sure we’ve got everything on our Seder shopping lists.

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R. Tali Adler on Vayikra: Blood and Breath

Ta Shma ·

2025/04/02

The unspoken drive towards human sacrifice lurks in the background of Sefer Vayikra.

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R. Avi Strausberg: Children of Believers

Ta Shma ·

2025/03/31

The first Pesah was a leil shimurim, a night of watching, a night of fear and uncertainty. Amid darkness and screams, the fate of the Israelites hung in the balance, with hopes of redemption and freedom in their hearts. They were asked to believe in a God they didn't know and to set out on a journey with no destination in sight. Amazingly, they trusted in God and they followed Moshe out of Egypt. What does it mean to believe today in a moment of great uncertainty and doubt? What i...

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R. Tali Adler on Pekudei: Silver and Gold

Ta Shma ·

2025/03/26

Human beings love to make idols of our dead. Desperate to keep our lost loved ones within reach, we create forms that we can cling to in their stead. We name buildings and mark park benches; install portraits and keep voicenotes on our phones. We believe, somewhere in our hearts, that if we can create the right form, capture the right image, wear the right talisman—his scarf, her watch—then they are not really gone.

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38:56

R. Shai Held: Psalm for Thursday

Ta Shma ·

2025/03/24

The psalms attached liturgically to each day of the week are often mumbled over quickly, without much attention to their meaning. In this series, we'll engage in careful literary-theological readings of these psalms, looking at how various midrashim interpret the psalms, and bring new meaning to this part of our daily prayers. Key themes explored will include the idea that God creates the world by subduing the chaotic forces that threaten life; the notion that a concern for justice is what ma...

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R. Tali Adler on Vayakhel: Returning to Shabbat

Ta Shma ·

2025/03/19

It’s only in the moment when Moshe once again commands the Jewish people to keep Shabbat that we know they are truly forgiven.

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R. David Kasher: In the Shadow of the Golem Part 3

Ta Shma ·

2025/03/17

Prague at the turn of the 17th century was the site of a critical period in the development of pre-modern Jewish thought. The great rabbis of that city developed a unique theology, synthesizing the rational philosophical tradition that shaped religious thought in the Middle Ages with the growing influence of Kabbalah. In doing so, they created a new kind of religious language - one that set the stage for the emergence of Hasidism in the following century. This series will explore this unique ...

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Ki Tissa: Who Does God Desire?

Ta Shma ·

2025/03/12

The Jews have every reason to believe Moshe will never come back. We’ve seen this play before, the last time with a father and son: a three day journey into the wilderness for sacrifice (the story that Moshe tells Pharaoh) at some unknown place, which turns out to be a mountain. We know this story, but the last time we saw it told, the main characters were Avraham and Yitzhak

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