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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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43:16

R. Dani Passow: Reading the Rabbis Part 2

Ta Shma ·

2025/06/23

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 Shelah: When the Story Changes

Ta Shma ·

2025/06/18

To be a Jew is to believe in impossible dreams. To be a Jew is to believe that slaves can become free. It is to believe that the senselessness of this world can be disrupted by divine words that break through the barrier between heaven and earth. It is trust, even on our darkest days, that we are part of God’s dream.

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R. Dani Passow: Reading the Rabbis Part 1

Ta Shma ·

2025/06/16

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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7:38

R. Tali Adler on Parashat BeHa'alotkha: Unspoken Words

Ta Shma ·

2025/06/11

The tragedy of Moshe’s final conversation with his father-in-law are the words that he leaves unsaid.

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41:08

R. Shai Held: Psalm for Shabbat

Ta Shma ·

2025/06/09

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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6:44

R. Tali Adler on Parashat Naso: Choosing to Live

Ta Shma ·

2025/06/04

There are moments in life where things have gone so wrong that we cannot see a way forward. That may be what has happened to the woman who chooses to drink the sotah waters.

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10:06

R. Tali Adler on Bemidbar: A Jew Without Sinai

Ta Shma ·

2025/05/28

To be a Jew is, when we are lucky, to feel the memory of Sinai in our bones. We strive to feel as if we have experienced both the slavery and liberation of Egypt first hand, as if we ourselves saw God’s miracles.

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7:24

R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Shavuot: What Did We Hear at...

Ta Shma ·

2025/05/27

What did we hear at Sinai? What does God want us to hear?

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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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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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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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