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L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah

Or Yochai Taylor and Michal Kohane

A mother and son explore the weekly Torah portion from our two worlds: she’s an Israeli rabbanit, he’s a American vet student. Together, we unpack the parsha like we"re across the Shabbat table. New episodes weekly. Parsha blog available at https://miko284.com/ to ask questions and leave comments.

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00:39:24

Tzav 5786

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2026/03/26

Tzav 5786

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00:34:38

Vayikra 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2026/03/19

miko284.comTorah ReadingLeviticus 1:1-5:26HaftarahIsaiah 43:21-44:23

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00:33:40

Vayakhel-Pekudei 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2026/03/12

Torah ReadingExodus 35:1-40:38, 12:1-20HaftarahEzekiel 45:16-46:18 | Shabbat HaChodesh

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00:35:42

Ki Tisa 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2026/03/05

Torah ReadingExodus 30:11-34:35; Numbers 19:1-22HaftarahEzekiel 36:16-38 | Shabbat Parah

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00:29:37

Tetzaveh 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2026/02/26

Torah ReadingExodus 27:20-30:10; Deuteronomy 25:17-19HaftarahI Samuel 15:2-34 | Shabbat Zachormiko284.com

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00:28:55

Terumah 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2026/02/19

In Terumah

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00:31:40

Mishpatim 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2026/02/12

As we move into Parshat Mishpatim together, we feel the shift from revelation to responsibility, from awe to the hard work of building a just society. After Sinai’s sweeping "statements", we are placed face to face with detailed laws that govern everyday life, work, injury, conflict, and care for the vulnerable, reminding us that covenant is lived out in the ordinary and the uncomfortable. We wrestle with laws that challenge us, especially those around servitude and injury, and ask whether

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00:33:26

Yitro 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2026/02/05

In Parshat Yitro...

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00:30:23

Beshalach 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2026/01/29

In Parshat Beshalach...

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00:28:40

Bo 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2026/01/22

Parshat Bo

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00:29:18

Va'era 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2026/01/14

A wide-ranging conversation on Parshat Va'era, where we sit together with the text and its hardest questions. We wrestle with why redemption unfolds so slowly, why the suffering must continue through ten plagues when freedom could come instantly, and what it means that liberation is as much about transforming belief as it is about leaving Egypt. The plagues emerge not only as punishment, but as a challenge to empire, ideology, and false power, a dismantling of both Egyptian gods and totalitarian

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00:33:02

Shemot 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2026/01/07

As we begin Shemot, we step with the Torah from family stories into the birth of a people. Together, we notice how names slowly disappear as slavery takes hold, and how identity shifts from who we are to what we are forced to be. We linger over Moses’ early life, set adrift in a life-saving ark, growing up between worlds, and learning when to act and when to see. We trace the echoes of Genesis as creation gives way to national becoming.From Miriam’s courage to Moses’ hesitation at the burning bush,

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00:28:28

Vayechi 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/12/31

As we close the book of Genesis with Parshat Vayechi, we sit with Jacob and Joseph at the end of their lives, listening to blessings that are as complicated as the people receiving them. Together, we explore exile and home, sibling rivalry and reconciliation, Rachel’s lingering presence, and what it means to carry Jewish identity in a foreign land. This episode reflects on how families—and how we—learn to live with contradiction, forgive old wounds, and move forward together as Genesis gives way to

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00:32:59

Vayigash 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/12/25

Vayigash opens mid-plea: Judah steps forward and time stops. In a room thick with power and memory, he argues for Benjamin, hints at a truth no one dares to name, and forces a reckoning. Joseph breaks the charade—“Ani Yosef”—and suddenly every prior scene rewrites itself. Can a family choose reconciliation over retribution, providence over grievance, future over scorekeeping? As Jacob prepares to leave the Land and descend to Egypt, we track distances—near and far, embrace and clinch, Goshen’s safe

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00:29:43

Miketz 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/12/18

Miketz moves Joseph from the dungeon to the palace by way of dream interpretation. Joseph, forgotten by the cupbearer who “did not think of him and forgot him,” waits two more years until Pharaoh’s double dream pulls him up. This time Joseph names the Source: “God will answer,” then reads the seven fat years and seven lean years and proposes a plan. We wrestle with the brilliance and the danger of that plan, the grammar of vayehi as a signal of darkness, and how a Hebrew prince of exile names his

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00:45:22

Vayeshev 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/12/09

Vayeshev 5786

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Vayishlach 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/12/03

Vayishlach picks up where Vayetze left off: Jacob turns homeward and sends messengers to Esau, splitting his camp, arranging gifts, and praying. Night brings a wrestling—man, angel, or inner shadow—after which he limps away blessed and renamed Israel. “Katonti mikol hachasadim u’mikol ha’emet… ata hayiti lishnei machanot”: humility before kindness and truth, and the burden of becoming “two camps.” The reunion with Esau lands between embrace and careful distance; in Shechem, Dinah’s story forces hard

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00:31:55

Vayetzei 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/11/26

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00:36:03

Toldot 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/11/20

Toldot shifts our focus from Abraham and Sarah to Isaac and Rivkah. “These are the generations of Isaac… Abraham begot Isaac...” Does the Torah repeat itself? How do we emphasize the continuity and different characters as we move from founder to formation; chesed and din. Isaac is unique in many ways. He stays rooted in the Land, sows and reaps me’ah she’arim, reopens wells, and grows “until very great.” Rivkah shows aspects of both Abraham’s generosity and Sarah’s prophetic clarity. What do we make

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00:33:11

Chayei Sara 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/11/12

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