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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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6:26

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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7:52

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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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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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Purim: Costumes and the...

Ta Shma ·

2025/03/10

Purim is a holiday of costumes, putting on masks, and presenting ourselves to the world in unusual ways. It makes sense, then, that this holiday most often falls, as it does this year, in the week after Parashat Tetzaveh, a parashah largely about the costuming for the priests in the Temple. The fact that the Torah tells us so much about the garments the kohanim must wear cuts against an all-too-common tendency to treat the external as shallow and meaningless. To the contrary...

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R. Tali Adler on Tetzaveh: Between Absence and Emptiness

Ta Shma ·

2025/03/05

Tetzaveh is a parashah of absence. While Moshe has been a constant presence since the beginning of Shemot, in Tetzaveh, Moshe’s name is not mentioned a single time.

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R. David Kasher: In the Shadow of the Golem Part 2

Ta Shma ·

2025/03/03

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 Terumah: Caring for God

Ta Shma ·

2025/02/26

If you are lucky, you will live to see your parents begin to need you in the way you once needed them. You will feel it most in the small things: lifting a cup of water to your mother’s lips; adjusting the light your father can sleep. Laying a hand on his forehead. And you will be desperately sad, but also lucky, because each time you do these things, you will remember that they once, so many times, did them for you. And you will know that you were, and are, loved. God, too, is a parent...

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51:24

R. David Kasher: In the Shadow of the Golem Part 1

Ta Shma ·

2025/02/24

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 Mishpatim: The Day After

Ta Shma ·

2025/02/19

Mishpatim, after the narrative path we’ve experienced so far in Shemot, can feel dizzying. Until now, Shemot has seemed like a straightforward story: slavery, Exodus, and revelation. It is a narrative that unfolds in a basically clear order, with a clear str¡ucture. It is a story that can be read, if not precisely like any other book, at least in much the same way.

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R. Shai Held: Psalm for Wednesday

Ta Shma ·

2025/02/17

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 Parashat Yitro: Remembering the...

Ta Shma ·

2025/02/12

It’s only when Yitro, who knew Moshe before he became a leader, comes to meet him that we learn how lost Moshe has become.

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Tu Bishvat: “The One Who...

Ta Shma ·

2025/02/10

Tu Bishvat has become a day on which many Jews express gratitude for the earth and its bounty. In this sense, it is closely connected to the practice of reciting blessings over food before we eat. How do we experience, when we eat fully formed produce, the miraculous intricacy that produced it? How do we go from the mundane act of eating to a deep sense of appreciation?

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Beshallah: Ghosts in the...

Ta Shma ·

2025/02/05

The Exodus from Egypt is, in one way of telling it, a ghost story. This is not the usual genre we assign to the tale. We describe it as a story of liberation. The emotions we associate with it are a mixture of triumph, joy, and awe. But stories are created, in part, by where we choose to begin and end them, and the Exodus is a story with many beginnings.

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R. Aviva Richman: Defining Da'at: A Jewish...

Ta Shma ·

2025/02/03

In a time of abounding artificial intelligence, we will attempt to define what makes intelligence "non" artificial. Our jumping-off point will be the Hebrew word da'at, which is prominently used in Jewish law to assert the importance of mental awareness, intention, and consent. As we excavate the many meanings of da'at, we will ask: What are the characteristics of our minds and thoughts that are at the core of our very real identities? Which parts of our minds matter most to ensure the dignit...

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Bo: Telling God’s Story

Ta Shma ·

2025/01/29

Whose story do we tell on the Seder night?The answer, at first, seems obvious: the story we tell is our own, the story of our deliverance from slavery to freedom. It is the core story of our people. It is the grand drama of Jewish history in which we are still enmeshed today.But this week’s parashah offers another interpretation, one in which it is God, not (only) ourselves, at the center of the story.

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