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Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism

The Malcolm Gladwell of the Torah -- That"s how listeners describe Madlik™ – where sharp insight meets sacred text. With the curiosity of a cultural critic and the soul of a yeshiva bochur, Madlik ignites Jewish thought from a post-orthodox perspective. Each weekly episode explores the Torah with fresh eyes — drawing unexpected connections, challenging assumptions, and offering a heterodox yet deeply rooted take on halachic and philosophical questions. Born of a lifelong love for Jewish texts and

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33:19

Lost & Found

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/09/13

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse in front of a live audience. The Torah teaches that one must return a lost object to its rightful owner. The great sages Abaye and Rava use this as an opportunity to argue over the dynamics of loss and despair! We swim into this iconic Talmudic text to find what we have lost… Sefaria Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/589057 Link to The Eli Fishman Podcast: Rabbi Adam Mintz: On the topic of Conversion (gerus). Transcript on

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32:53

May God Avenge his Blood

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/09/06

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. הי״ד the Hebrew acronym הַשֵּׁם יִקּוֹם דָּמוֹ “May Hashem avenge his blood” has been carved after the names of too many victims of bloodshed in the past few months, and especially in the last few days. This week's parsha addresses tribalism, revenge killings and blood feuds which in the Ancient Near East, especially in the Sinai Peninsula, have a too rich history. Today we review the Biblical texts in light of pre-Islamic customs

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29:33

A Time that Never Was (re-cast)

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/08/30

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse on August 25th 2022. The Torah prohibits us from adding or detracting to its directives and also against rewriting history. It even predicts that there might be a time where our leaders will try to reinvent our past. We discuss. Sefaria Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/426413 Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2022/08/24/a-time-that-never-was/

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35:19

The whole mitzvah

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/08/23

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded in front of a live audience on Clubhouse. The Book of Deuteronomy presents the Torah’s various rules and regulations as a corpus. It uses a unique expression; כׇּל־הַמִּצְוָ֗ה variously translated as “All the commandment” or “instruction”, the “entire mitzvah”. It is mitzvah in the singular … not in the plural as we would expect. So, we explore how the concept of a corpus of 613 commandments as well as the value of a single mitzvah developed in

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36:49

What they say about us actually matters...

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/08/16

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded in front of a live audience on Clubhouse. The Torah proclaims that its laws are our wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations. The nations of the world will say of the Israelites that this is a wise and understanding people. We explore the traditional commentaries and then we discover Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner; born at the end of the 19th century and a radical thinker and early religious Zionist. Based on this verse, he taught that if

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31:59

just war

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/08/09

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded in front of a live audience on Clubhouse. The book of Deuteronomy known as the Second Torah, is not only spoken in the first-person voice of Moses but is also a reworking and reinterpretation of earlier events. This is nowhere more apparent then in the retelling of the story of the spies where, in our disruptive reading, the spies and their generation are not blamed for being too meek, but rather…. for being too militaristic. Sefaria source sheet:

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33:38

Culture Wars

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/08/02

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz reorded in front of a live audience om clubhose. Moses accuses the tribes of Reuben and Gad of perpetuating the defeatist attitude of the generation of the Exodus. The word Moses uses; Tarbut, has come to mean culture and we explore how culture, in contradistinction to Torah, has evolved and continues to impact Jewish thought until today. Seafaria Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/581130 Transcript on episode: website:

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33:01

Vigilant about Vigilantism

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/07/26

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded in front of a live audience on Clubhouse. The three week mourning period commemorating the fall of the first and second Jewish commonwealth reminds us of the divisive nature of zealotry. And it is zealotry that lies behind the story of Pinchas taking the law into his own impulsive hands. The Pinchas model was problematic to the Rabbis and has been used by zealots until today to justify vigilantism and extrajudicial activities. We discuss. Sefaria

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31:13

How good was that!

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/07/19

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded live on Clubhouse. This week’s parsha includes a blessing about goodness, delivered by a prophet of the nations that is so inspiring it is used to initiate the morning prayers in Jewish houses of worship of every denomination and until today. This week another 20-something kid took a gun and killed and tried to kill. A NY Times editorialist wrote that: “Though details remain sparse, this appears to be a story less about fanatical partisanship than

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31:33

Holy Water

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/07/12

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded live on Clubhouse. This week’s parsha iis as much about water as it is about Chukim or challenging rules. It starts with the death of Miriam and her well, segues into Moses fatal sin in striking the water rock and concludes with the Red Heifer and its purifying water. Today we focus on the ability of sprinkled water or emersion into water to purify in Judaism and later Christianity and up onto today. Sefaria Source Sheet:

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36:14

The Spirit of all Flesh

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/07/05

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz, recorded on Clubhouse. Moses uses a title for God he uses in only one other place and which is not used again in all of Tanach: "God of the spirits of all flesh". This name for God strikes us as very universalist, even humanistic and we explore. Sefaria Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/576389 Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2024/07/03/the-spirit-of-all-flesh/

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40:56

Wanderlust

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/06/27

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. The so-called Biblical Spies are actually not characterized as undercover agents but rather as tourists or in Hebrew; Turim. Broadcasting live from Venice, Italy, we take this opportunity to explore the significant impact that journey has played in defining the Jew. Sefaria Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/575122 Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2024/06/26/wanderlust/

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33:18

Retirement, Ageism and Age Limits

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/06/21

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. We’ve encountered age limits in the Torah with regard to reaching the age of majority, military age and the age required to serve as a priest, but there is a singular verse which provides a mandatory retirement age and this is the subject of our discussion. Sefaria Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/574152 Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2024/06/19/retirement-ageism-and-age-limits/

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31:36

Jewish Identity - Nature or Nurture

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/06/07

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. This week we start the fourth Book of the Torah and it is also my grandson Ari’s Bar Mitzvah. As the Torah quantifies and qualifies its members, there is nothing new with the emphasis on the genetic lineage of the tribes. What is surprising, is a strategically placed Rabbinic comment that whoever teaches Torah to another, Scripture regards it as though he had given birth to him. So, what is Ari celebrating… his membership in the tribe

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35:41

DIASPORA

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/05/31

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded live on Clubhouse. God threatens to scatter the Israelites among the nations. The Septuagint, in its Greek translation, coins a new word, maybe a new concept. A Greek word used, not for migrants but to reference a people who identify with a specific geographic location, but currently reside elsewhere. The word is Diaspora, a seminal concept in Judaism and a word that has spawned such concepts as alienation, ethnicity, repatriation and redemption

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36:45

Times for Torah

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/05/24

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. This week’s parsha is Behar, which means “at the Mountain”. While Rabbi Mintz is not at the Mountain, he is in Israel and will share impressions of his recent visit to the only Haredi Hesder Yeshiva. The Talmud suggests that we set aside specific times for Torah study and we will use the Sabbatical year referenced in the parsha to focus on different ways that our tradition has offered for integrating study into civil society and

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32:52

Ki ba moed – the time has come

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/05/15

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. We usually think of Tishrei and the Fall as a marathon of Jewish holidays, but if you count Rabbinic and Israeli holidays, the seven weeks of Spring win the holiday race with ease. Pesach, Yom Hazikaron, Yom Ha’atzmut, Pesach Sheni, Lag ba’Omer, Yom Yerushalyim and Shavuot. We use Leviticus 23 which has the most complete summary of Biblical holidays to explore the dynamic of adding new holidays and adding meaning to existing holidays

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35:49

Yom Hazikaron - a conversation with Menachem Bombach

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/05/10

Join Geoffrey Stern, Rabbi Adam Mintz and special guest Rabbi Menachem Bombach recorded on Clubhouse. This year Yom Hazikaron; Israeli Memorial Day, will be different for many reasons and from many perspectives. We invite Rabbi Menachem Bombach, a maverick visionary in the Haredi community to join us for a conversation about the meaning, history and halachic significance of this day for Israelis in general and for the ultra-Orthodox in particular. Sefaria Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/563501

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41:17

Life comes first

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/05/03

This week’s parsha is Acharei Mot.. literally; After Death. From Rabbinic Judaism up until the present, we Jews “Choose Life”. Was it always so? Was it so obvious? Is it the secret sauce of Jewish survival? And…. Is it at the core of the current conflict? So many questions and only half an hour. Join us for Life Comes First recorded live on Clubhouse. Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/561608 Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2024/05/01/life-comes-first/

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50:28

Madlik Model Seder 2024

Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism ·

2024/04/18

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. This year our Seder will be different from other seders. For the first time in many of our lives it will be a Leil Shemorim, a night of concern; a night of uncertainty, fatigue and confusion. So, let’s follow the advice of the Rabbis to see ourselves as though we too are leaving our Egypt. Join us as we recast the ancient texts of the Haggadah for our generation and our challenging times. Sefaria Source Sheet:

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