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The Oral Talmud

Institute for the Next Jewish Future

32 episodes

19 hours ago

An exploration of the Talmud through the “traditionally radical” lens pioneered by Benay Lappe. Whether you are a beginner to Talmud study or a long-time learner, by listening in on Benay Lappe’s study partnership with Dan Libenson as they explore foundational stories and material from the Talmud, you will discover the how-to manual that the ancient Rabbis left behind for future generations to help us re-imagine a new version of Judaism after the previous version “crashes.”

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An exploration of the Talmud through the “traditionally radical” lens pioneered by Benay Lappe. Whether you are a beginner to Talmud study or a long-time learner, by listening in on Benay Lappe’s study partnership with Dan Libenson as they explore foundational stories and material from the Talmud, you will discover the how-to manual that the ancient Rabbis left behind for future generations to help us re-imagine a new version of Judaism after the previous version “crashes.”

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Episodes (20/32)

The Oral Talmud

Episode 30: Magician School

“Talmud is showing people how you do the sleight of hand. It's like magician school! And this is the manual! A magician never reveals his tricks! But the democratization of the old tricks allows for the new tricks.” - Dan Libenson

19 hours ago

1 hour 4 minutes 4 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 29: The Heart Knows The Bitterness of its Soul

“As almost always, there's a wink in this text. And the question is: has that wink been successful? Or have we lost track of the wink and opened ourselves up to the misinterpretation of this radical approach, for an originalist approach?” - Benay Lappe

1 week ago

1 hour 1 minute 4 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 28: The Tile Contour Gauge Theory of Tradition

“In these moments of new foundings, I wonder the extent to which you have to make some kind of a plausible argument that your changes are actually an expansion of ancient principles. Otherwise, I wonder if they’ll be cast out by the immune system.” - Dan Libenson

2 weeks ago

1 hour 5 minutes 41 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 27: Who’s To Say Your Blood is Redder?

“What's inherent in racism is the idea that you are judging groups of people in terms of value one against another. And I think that's precisely what's underneath – that's the svara essentially – about why you can't murder someone else to save your own life. Because you cannot say: I know my life is more valuable than that person's.” - Benay Lappe

3 weeks ago

58 minutes 22 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 26: Why We Show Our Work

“And since they've shown us their work, we're able to say, ‘I'm not following the substantive rule in this case! I'm following the process rule – which says: How do I think about this new case?” - Dan Libenson

4 weeks ago

1 hour 21 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 25: Nitza’s Attic

“When the Rabbis start saying: Well, when does this line in the Torah apply? And when doesn't apply? – You forget that their first radical move was to imply: This doesn't always apply. That's enormous. It's that shift that makes anything possible.” - Benay Lappe

1 month ago

57 minutes 23 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 24: Sacred Disobedience

“Jewish law works like any legal system that survives for a long period of time – and it does so by the same mechanisms. And those mechanisms are the human insight that is brought to bear to modify, qualify, limit, and expand the law as one receives it.” - Benay Lappe

1 month ago

1 hour 1 minute 7 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 23: Life Comes First

“How do you take what you have and analogize, and tie some new radical thing that you don't have but you want to insert into the tradition? This entire passage is part of the instruction manual! This is some new twist of creativity, a twist of imagination.” - Benay Lappe

1 month ago

1 hour 12 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 22 - Hillel & Shammai: Beyond Elu v’Elu

“Ultimately the only way that you actually take these lessons into your soul is through trying to implement it in your actual life. And often that's gonna be failure!“ - Dan Libenson

1 month ago

58 minutes 43 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 21: Dissecting Daf Yomi with Ilana Kurshan

“Part of what I love about Talmud is that even if you're just listening, there's so many gaps, so many rough edges, so many places that don't quite fit together. There're all these holes and you, the reader, burrow into those holes. You find your nook, your cranny, your space, your neek’rat ha’tzur. And it's the nature of the discourse that has you do that. I don't think it's possible to learn this text passively!” - Ilana Kurshan

2 months ago

1 hour 5 minutes 30 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 20: Transforming Story into Law with Jane Kanarek

“I want activist reads to also be responsible reads, which is why I’m so committed to people being anchored and being able to actually read these classical texts.” - Jane Kanarek

2 months ago

57 minutes 45 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 19: The Elu v’Elu Episode

“Opinions that are contradictory to one another, the opposite of one another are both the words of God.” - Dan Libenson

2 months ago

54 minutes 21 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 18: What Tisha b’Av Can Learn From Yom Kippur

“We have to imagine that everything that we love today, or don't love, might end up in the Tisha b’Av of the future.” - Dan Libenson

2 months ago

54 minutes 47 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 17: The Iranian Talmud with Shai Secunda

“I love the world of the Talmud. I love the fact that they need to justify, they wanna justify, they wanna talk and talk and talk; the way that people who are less socially confident sometimes find themselves doing, when we're in a situation where we're in a new community, and we just, you know, ramble! That's something I love about the Talmud.” - Shai Secunda

3 months ago

55 minutes 46 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 16: The Greatest Voices Are Anonymous with Daniel Boyarin

“I find it deeply moving and worthy of homilies that arguably the most influential voices in the history of Jewish thinking are anonymous.” - Daniel Boyarin

3 months ago

45 minutes 31 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 15: Svara’ing Your Svara

“It's only when you know why, and the essence behind the whys, that you are able to create. You're able to then be free of the momentary form of a practice, which is trying to achieve a certain goal, and create other forms that achieve that same goal.” - Benay Lappe

3 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes 42 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 14: Reading the Angel of Death with Ruth Calderon

“Even if the good book was not written by God, the Talmudic page is often a good place to encounter the Divine.” - Ruth Calderon

3 months ago

50 minutes 59 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 13: Using Tradition to Overturn Tradition

“You don't have to stand outside of the tradition to fix it. If you realize where the tradition is wrong, that doesn't put you outside of it. That puts you squarely in the center of it, standing on the shoulders of the greatest ones who have the ability to, from the inside of tradition, using the Torah’s mechanisms and ideas to overturn it.” - Benay Lappe

3 months ago

59 minutes 51 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 12: The Ideal Person

“And in Jewish law, if you get 23 Jews to agree on something? You know something is wrong!” - Benay Lappe

4 months ago

1 hour 9 seconds

The Oral Talmud

Episode 11: The Broken Social Contract

“You’ve got to decide with whom and where your voice is going to be heeded. Where are you going to have the power to effect change? That’s your olam. If we get to this big world, we can become actually overcome with powerlessness. But I think that’s the driving question of the bottom line of this text. What’s your world? Who’s your kahal?” - Benay Lappe

4 months ago

58 minutes 3 seconds