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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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R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Lekh Lekha: Walking,...

Ta Shma ·

2025/10/29

Abraham is “our father” in many senses. He is seen as the father of the Jewish people, the spiritual father of Judaism and of monotheistic faiths more broadly, and the father of the covenant with the one God. Yet in our parashah, Abraham is introduced first and foremost as a son, a descendant who must decide whether to be traditional or innovative—whether to follow the path of his forebears or to become a revolutionary.

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R. Ayal Robkin: The Apprentice Mind Part 1

Ta Shma ·

2025/10/27

Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, also known as the Alei Shur, offers a powerful and inspiring — but often demanding — vision for what it takes to become a better human being. Before we can do any act of repentance, of teshuvah — we must first learn how to change and how to grow. Recorded in Summer 2025. Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/mh_torah_source_sheets/RobkinApprenticeMind2025.pdf

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R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Noah: "In His...

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2025/10/22

Parashat Noah invites us to reflect on the relationship between society and the individual. The introduction of its main character raises a central question: What is our role when we live within a corrupt society? How should we conduct ourselves when leaders are not guided by the values we hold dear, and when many individuals disagree with us about what is good, just, and right?

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R. Avital Hochstein on Parashat Bereishit: What If...

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2025/10/13

Two children are fighting in the playground. Called into the principal’s office, each insists: “It all started when he hit me back.” This familiar joke captures something deeply human: our tendency to avoid responsibility by blaming others.

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R. Tali Adler on VeZot HaBerakhah: On Endings and...

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2025/10/06

The draw of theatre in the age of movies is that each experience is unique. While the script's words and stage directions remain the same night after night, the unique alchemy of the actors and audience gathered in that particular configuration at that particular moment in time, does not. When we linger in our seats after the final encore, delaying our exit into the glaring reality of the world, it is because something in us senses that this particular magic will never happen again. If ...

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Ha'azinu: Living in Between

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2025/09/29

Homeless in life, Moshe is fated to remain without a home even in death. That, perhaps, is the most difficult part of God’s decree: not that Moshe must die, a fate that all human beings share. Not that he must die outside of the land: Ya’akov and Yosef also died far from Israel. What is most difficult about Moshe’s death is that, even in death, he cannot go home.

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayeilekh: Recreating Sinai

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2025/09/22

The generation that will enter the Land of Israel never heard God’s voice at Sinai. They never experienced the earth shattering voice, the terror, the awe. In place of memory, all they have is a story.

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Nitzavim: The Long Goodbye

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2025/09/17

When Moshe gathers the generation of the desert together to enter them into the covenant once again, he knows that it is his last chance to teach the people how to live according to the Torah—and, crucially, how to live without him.

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R. Tali Adler: When Teshuvah Is or Should Be Impossible

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2025/09/15

Are some things unforgivable? Is Teshuvah always an option? What would it mean if the road to repentance were blocked? In this class we will explore questions of whether we ever lose the opportunity to do Teshuvah and what it might look like to repent from a place where we are unsure of the possibility of forgiveness. Recorded in Elul 2023. Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/mh_torah_source_sheets/AdlerTeshuvahImpossiblePart12023.pdf

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Ki Tavo: No Final Chapter

Ta Shma ·

2025/09/10

We’ve made it. That seems to be the promise of bikkurim, the first fruits gift to God.

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R. Dena Weiss: The Mechanics of Mercy: How Does...

Ta Shma ·

2025/09/08

The liturgy of the High Holiday season is replete with promises about God's forgiveness but is less specific about how God forgives. In her lecture, R. Dena Weiss explores how forgiveness works, and asks if there are any strategies that we can adopt to make us more forgivable and forgiving. This lecture was delivered in memory of Rabbi Jonathan D. Levine z"l in 2024. Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/mh_torah_source_sheets/HHDLecture2024WeissHowForgivenessWorks.pdf

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R. Tali Adler on Ki Teitzei: Living in the Double...

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2025/09/03

I was eight years old in Basel, Switzerland the day I learned about the way places have layers. It was a chilly, autumn shabbos, and my father and I were on a walk by the river. My father pointed out different sights as we walked: there is the house where his elementary school friend lived. There is the gate they walked through to get to school, there is the shop run by the woman rumored to be a witch. And there, he said, pointing to a small, shady area, is the place ...

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

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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:...

Ta Shma ·

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...

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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...

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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...

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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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