Best Tehilim Podcasts (2024)

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The Stoic Jew Shiur #04: Self-Talk About Your True Self (Meditations 2:2) 1:27:48

19h ago1:27:48

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Synopsis: This evening (7/17/24), in our Stoic Jew Shiur, we learned and discussed the second chapter in Book II, which had a markedly different tone than the first chapter. Here we see Marcus reminding - or rebuking himself - in order not to lose sight of who he r…

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Three Years of Gratitude, Even for Insomnia! 15:37

4h ago15:37

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 15 minutes 31 seconds Synopsis: I can't believe it, but this past Friday marked three YEARS of gratitude journaling! In this episode, as I usually do in these "gratitude milestone episodes," I recap my gratitude journal practice and identify the benefit or level-up that currently st…

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The Stoic Jew Shiur #03: Stoic Values vs. Jewish Values (Meditations 2:1) 1:09:58

6d ago1:09:58

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 10 minutes Synopsis: This evening (7/10/24), in our Stoic Jew Shiur, we achieved our goal of finishing our analysis of the opening entry of Book II. After reviewing and continuing what we did last time, we raised a question that has bothered me for years: Judaism has a clear …

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The Stoic Jew Shiur #02: Good and Bad, in Stoicism and Judaism (Meditations 2:1) 1:27:19

13d ago1:27:19

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 32 minutes Synopsis: This evening (7/3/24), in our Stoic Jew Shiur, we attempted to do an orderly review of what we covered last time, but instead, we slipped right into a fresh analysis of some of the most fundamental questions in ethics: What do we mean by good and bad? We …

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The Stoic Jew Shiur #01: Marcus's Morning Reminder (Meditations 2:1) 1:36:58

20d ago1:36:58

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 37 minutes Synopsis: This evening (6/26/24) was our inaugural "Stoic Jew Shiur"! After a brief overview of who Marcus Aurelius was and what his Meditations are, we dove RIGHT into the text of Book 2 Chapter 1. We quickly discovered that this opening paragraph was rich in idea…

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Announcing: The Stoic Jew Shiur! (Wed, 8-9pm EDT) 2:03

20d ago2:03

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! I should have made this announcement more than an hour before the first shiur, but better late than never! 😅 ----- The Torah content for this week has been sponsored by Meir Areman, l'zeicher nishmas Zelda bas Ziesel, his grandmother, whose yahrzeit is on the 21st of Sivan. ----- If you've …

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Be Bees, My Friend (Seneca - Letter #84: On Gathering Ideas) 25:05

2M ago25:05

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 25 minutes even Synopsis: You might have heard of Bruce Lee's "Be Water, My Friend" analogy, and if you're a listener of this podcast, you might have also heard of Marcus Aurelius's fire analogy, but have you heard of Seneca's BEE analogy? I know I hadn't! In this episode we review …

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Tehilim 7: Shigayon le'David (Part 3) 1:10:17

2M ago1:10:17

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 9 minutes Synopsis: Last night (5/29/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we attempted to "land the plane." Since it had been two weeks since our last shiur, we began by reviewing everything - the translations, the questions, and the approaches - and then set out to get…

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Epictetus's Baths, Seinfeld's Equilibrium, and How to Say Baruch Dayan ha'Emes with Joy (Epictetus - Enchiridion 4) 19:05

2M ago19:05

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 19 minutes even (Steven) Synopsis: This episode was inspired by four occurrences that recently befell me, each of which involved what we'll dub "a minor monetary fluctuation." The rest of the episode is devoted to unpacking the insights from these occurrences, using Epictetus as our…

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Tehilim 7: Shigayon le'David (Part 2) 1:04:29

2M ago1:04:29

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 3 minutes Synopsis: Last night (5/16/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we dove into our in-depth analysis of this perek, raising a bunch of questions, making a bunch of observations, and following our intuition. We discussed a few ideas from the meforshim - most nota…

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Tehilim 7: Shigayon le'David (Part 1) 1:03:15

2M ago1:03:15

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 2 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (5/8/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began a new and unfamiliar perek. I selected it because it's clearly about David's struggles with his enemies and (unfortunately) that theme continues to be relevant to Jews in Israel and in the Di…

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Bees, Epictetus, Tehilim 118, Israel's War, and Yom haShoah (Epictetus - Enchiridion 1:5; Discourses 2:18) 17:53

3M ago17:53

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 17 minutes 48 seconds Synopsis: Yesterday I walked into a swarm of bees. In this episode, I reflect on that experience and follow my musings to the writings of Epictetus, to the bee reference in Tehilim 118, to musings about Israel's present war, and to yesterday's commemoration of …

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Tehilim 113: Beginning of Hallel REDUX (Part 3) 1:06:06

3M ago1:06:06

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 5 minutes Synopsis: This evening (4/17/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we concluded our relearning of Tehilim 113 with the commentary of the Abravanel - and boy did he deliver! I think we ended up in a similar place to where the Radak took us last time, but we arri…

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1000 Days of Gratitude (Haggadah) 20:58

3M ago20:58

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 21 minutes Synopsis: And The Stoic Jew Podcast is BACK! Or is it? Well, it's back for at least this episode, in which I reflect on 1000 days of gratitude and muse on the relationship between my gratitude accountability practice and the mitzvah of recounting the Exodus from Egypt. Wh…

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Tehilim 113: Beginning of Hallel REDUX (Part 2) 58:51

4M ago58:51

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 58 minutes Synopsis: This evening (4/3/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we continued our relearning of the first chapter of Hallel. After reviewing our translation, our questions, and our approach - which we developed a bit - we decided to start learning the Abravanel's ex…

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Tehilim 113: Beginning of Hallel REDUX (Part 1) 1:00:55

4M ago1:00:55

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour Synopsis: This evening (3/27/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began a new project: re-learning Hallel! (or at least, the first two chapters) The last time I gave shiur on Hallel was three years ago, and there's been enough distance and enough natural forgetting t…

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Tehilim 22: Al Ayeles ha'Shachar (Part 3: An Approach) 1:02:45

4M ago1:02:45

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Note: You are advised to at LEAST listen to Part 2 before this one, but in a pinch, you'll probably still gain if you just listen to Part 3, since we begin with a review of everything we covered in Parts 1 and 2. Length: 1 hour 2 minutes Synopsis: This evening (3/20/24), in our Wednesday ni…

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Tehilim 22: Al Ayeles ha'Shachar (Part 2: Developing an Approach) 1:05:28

4M ago1:05:28

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Tehilim 22: Al Ayeles ha'Shachar (Part 2: Developing an Approach) Note: In this case, you do NOT need to have listened to Part 1 in order to follow Part 2 Length: 1 hour 4 minutes Synopsis: This evening (3/13/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we had a LOT of work to do, since we ba…

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Tehilim 22: Al Ayeles ha'Shachar (Part 1: Reading and Translation) 1:04:04

5M ago1:04:04

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 3 minutes Synopsis: This evening (3/6/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began a new perek: the somewhat lengthy and exceedingly difficult-to-read chapter 22. We chose this because Chazal hold that it's about Esther, but we'll follow our usual approach and attempt …

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Tehilim 139: You Investigated Me and You Know (Part 3) 1:08:51

5M ago1:08:51

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 8 minutes Synopsis: This evening (2/28/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we aimed to wrap up our analysis. After a thorough review of what we covered last time, we read the Meiri's commentary on the final six pesukim. This drew us into the esoteric vortex-like topic …

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Tehilim 139: You Investigated Me and You Know (Part 2) 1:04:24

5M ago1:04:24

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 3 minutes Synopsis: This evening (2/21/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we continued our analysis of Tehilim 139. After reviewing our translation, our questions, and our approaches from last week, we began learning the Meiri's beautiful pasuk-by-pasuk commentary. We…

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Tehilim 139: You Investigated Me and You Know (Part 1) 1:04:58

5M ago1:04:58

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 3 minutes Synopsis: This evening (2/14/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began a new perek, and was it a DOOZY of a perek! Lengthy, poetic, filled with cryptic words and phrases and the abrupt pivot-point of them all. Daunting as it was, we raised a bunch of good …

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The Berachos of Milah (Tefilah Exploration) Part 2 1:09:00

6M ago1:09:00

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 8 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (2/7/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim/Tefilah shiur, we continued our (unprepared) exploration of the berachos said at a bris milah, with a focus on the third berachah. We read through the commentaries of the Rambam (in one of his tshuvos), Rash…

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The Berachos of Milah (Tefilah Exploration) Part 1 1:04:19

6M ago1:04:19

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! NOTE: I made a mistake in my translation of the response to the 2nd berachah, according to the Rambam. It should be: "just as YOU brought him into the covenant, so should you bring him to Torah, to chuppah, and to good deeds." Length: 1 hour 3 minutes Synopsis: This evening (1/31/24), in ou…

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Tehilim 52: On Doeg-like Bad Guys (Part 2) 1:01:59

6M ago1:01:59

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour Synopsis: This evening (1/10/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we set out to answer our two most pressing Tehilim questions: (1) What is the main idea of the perek? (2) What is the purpose? Thanks to the commentary of R' Elia di Nola (a.k.a. Shiurei R' Ovadyah Sforno…

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Tehilim 52: On Doeg-like Bad Guys (Part 1) 1:04:44

7M ago1:04:44

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 3 minutes Synopsis: This evening (1/3/24), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began learning a new perek that I had never seen before. I was drawn to it because it promises to shed new light on the familiar themes of lashon ha'ra and trust in Hashem. Tonight we translat…

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Does Insomnia Even Matter? (Aurelius - Meditations 6:1-2; 2:14) 22:05

7M ago22:05

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 22 minutes Synopsis: And we're back! By "we" I mean The Stoic Jew Podcast AND my insomnia! :D I've been up since 3:35am this morning, and I decided to make a podcast episode about my latest Stoic Jew take on my situation, based on the words of Marcus Aurelius and Koheles (Ecclesiast…

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Tehilim 137: Al Naharos Bavel (Part 3) 58:39

7M ago58:39

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 58 minutes Synopsis: This evening (12/13/23), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we reviewed what we did last time, took a couple of hesitant steps to explain the perek on our own, and then decided to let me Malbim "spoon-feed" us. We read through his commentary, then stepped bac…

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Asking for Miracles on Chanukah: Updated for 2023, in Light of the War with Hamas 21:47

8M ago21:47

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length of the article: 7 pages Length of the audio: 20 minutes 36 seconds Synopsis: This is the audio version of the 7-page article I published on rabbischneeweiss.substack.com/ on 12/10/23 (originally published on Kol ha'Seridim on 12/15/20), entitled: Asking for Miracles on Chanukah: Upda…

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Tehilim 137: Al Naharos Bavel (Part 2) 1:03:40

8M ago1:03:40

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 3 minutes Synopsis: This evening (12/6/23), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, continued working on our perek. After reviewing the translation, the questions, and the moves we made last time, we learned a bit of Tehilim methodology from Ibn Ezra, then introduced a critical…

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Tehilim 137: Al Naharos Bavel (Part 1) 1:01:14

8M ago1:01:14

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour Synopsis: This evening (11/29/23), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we took up Al Naharos Bavel. After an introductory "myth-busters" mini-shiur on the REAL minhag of Shir ha'Maalos (which most people do NOT follow) and a methodological interlude from William Hazlitt, we…

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Tehilim 121 REDUX: Esa Einai (Part 2) 1:01:18

8M ago1:01:18

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour Synopsis: This evening (11/22/23), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began reviewing the translations, questions, and approaches we took last time. We then learned through the Sforno's commentary and used his explanation of many of the phrases to develop our own approa…

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Deathbed Moments of U.S. Presidents, Japanese Monks, Chazal, Victims of the October 7th Massacre, and My Rebbi zt"l 34:15

8M ago34:15

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 34 minutes 10 seconds Synopsis: What will you do or say in your last moments, when (God willing) you are on your deathbed? In this episode I reflect on the final words of U.S. presidents, the death poems of Zen monks and Japanese haiku poets, the statements and attitudes of the Sage…

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God of Time or Dog Eating Its Own Vomit? (a "Rabbi Schneeweiss Substack" Crossover Episode) 8:16

8M ago8:16

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 8 minutes 11 seconds Synopsis: This is the audio version of the 2.5-page article I published on rabbischneeweiss.substack.com/ on 11/17/23, entitled: God of Time or Dog Eating Its Own Vomit? I wrote this in lieu of a parashah article because I needed to write it for myself. If I don…

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Tehilim 121 REDUX: Esa Einai (Part 1) 1:01:33

8M ago1:01:33

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour Synopsis: This evening (11/15/23), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began relearning Tehilim 121, which I gave shiur on in May 2022. I found a new approach I wanted to share, but we spent all of tonight analyzing the perek on our own, which was really thought-provokin…

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Tehilim 142: a Maskil Tefilah in a Cave (Part 2) 1:03:54

9M ago1:03:54

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 3 minutes Synopsis: This evening (11/8/23), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we continued and completed (for now) our learning of this perek! After a review of the text and the questions, we figured out an approach to the main idea, found support in the meforshim, and th…

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Matt Schneeweiss, the God of Time (Seneca - On the Shortness of Life) 29:52

9M ago29:52

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 29 minutes 47 seconds Synopsis: In today's unscripted "Stoic self-talk workshop" episode, I reflect aloud on a mistake I caught myself making, in which I fell victim to the "God fantasy" of living life as though I were outside of time. Related Content: - for my most recent shiur on …

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Tehilim 142: a Maskil Tefilah in a Cave (Part 1) 1:04:04

9M ago1:04:04

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 3 minutes Synopsis: This evening (11/2/23), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began a FRESH (read: unprepared) analysis of Tehilim 142, which our yeshiva has been saying in response to the current war with Hamas. We spent tonight reading, translating, and raising quest…

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Tehilim 130: A Song of Ascents - From the Depths I Called You, Hashem 1:09:50

9M ago1:09:50

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 9 minutes Synopsis: This evening (10/25/23), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we learned Tehilim 130, which many of us have been saying in response to the current war between Israel and Hamas. With Hashem's help, we were able to engage in a complete analysis - from trans…

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Tehilim 20 REDUX: Lamnatzeach - A Psalm for a Time of War (Part 2) 1:11:32

9M ago1:11:32

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 10 minutes Synopsis: This evening (10/18/23), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began with a quick review of why we say Tehilim - what we're trying to get out of it, and how it works. Next, we reviewed the perek, our questions, and the basic pshat of the individual pes…

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Tehilim 20 REDUX: A Psalm for a Time of War (Part 1) 35:08

10M ago35:08

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 33 minutes Synopsis: This evening (10/11/23), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, I decided not to return to the perek we were learning before Yom ha'Kippurim and instead revisit a perek which (sadly) is relevant at the present time, when Israel is at war. Our shiur was cut short …

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Should We Teach Hilchos Taaniyos to Students During an Eis Tzarah? 26:19

10M ago26:19

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 25 minutes Synopsis: This evening (10/11/23), prior to our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, I decided to take up a topic I felt I needed to address. Earlier today I had a VERY brief discussion with a fellow Jewish educator about how we've been handling our students' questions about ho…

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Tehilim 32: A Psalm About Teshuvah (?) (Part 1) 1:02:50

10M ago1:02:50

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 2 minutes Synopsis: This evening (9/20/23), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we began working on a VERY difficult perek - one that was made more difficult by the fact that I wasn't able to prepare it ahead of time. I'm not gonna lie: unless you plan on participating in t…

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Tehilim 27 REDUX: Hashem Ori v'Yishi (Part 2) 1:04:41

10M ago1:04:41

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 4 minutes Synopsis: This evening (9/13/23), in our Wednesday night Tehilim shiur, we continued our REDUX analysis of Tehilim 27 as explained by R' Elia di Nola. After reviewing our updated translation and the questions, we focused on the two main themes which R' Elia presents…

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A Stoic Approach to the Aseres Ymei Teshuvah (Aurelius - Meditations 5:11) 18:34

10M ago18:34

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 18 minutes 28 seconds Synopsis: My morning reading of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, combined with my review of the Rambam's Hilchos Teshuvah and my reading of the most recent issue of The Imperfectionist (by Oliver Burkeman, author of my current favorite non-fiction book: Four Thou…

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Aurelius and Rav Soloveitchik on the Problem with Vidui (Aurelius - Meditations 10.30) 16:15

11M ago16:15

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 16 minutes 9 seconds Synopsis: This morning I read a passage in Meditations which answered a question I've had about the formulation of vidui (confession) for many years. This answer is similar to answer I happened to reread from the Rav (Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik) this morning. …

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Selichos - a Shiur from the Kuntress 1:12:05

11M ago1:12:05

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 11 minutes Synopsis: Last night (9/9/23), at 11:30pm - roughly an hour and a half before the first night of selichos for us Ashkenazim - I gave over one of my favorite short shiur write-ups from L'Mikdach u'l'Michroz b'Mishneh Torah le'ha'Ramba (a.k.a. The Kuntress). The shiu…

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Tehilim 27 REDUX: Hashem Ori v'Yishi (Part 1) 1:11:29

11M ago1:11:29

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 1 hour 10 minutes Synopsis: This evening (9/6/23), in our first Wednesday night Tehilim shiur of the 2023-2024 season, we decided to revisit the same perek we learned in Elul of last year - this time, through one of my new favorite commentators whose name nobody will have heard of: …

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How My First Week Went, Thanks in Part to Epictetus (Enchiridion 1, 7, 17, 21) 29:50

11M ago29:50

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 29 minutes 44 seconds Synopsis: Seven days ago I made an episode about my thoughts and feelings about starting this new teaching job. In this episode I talk how four Stoic principles from Epictetus helped me to have the best first week imaginable. Related Content: - 8/28/23: Stoic J…

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Stoic Jew Thoughts on the First Day at a New School 9:31

11M ago9:31

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Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Length: 9 minutes 25 seconds Synopsis: I recorded this while sitting in the parking lot before entering my new school on Day 1 in the few minutes before school started. I wanted to preserve my thoughts and feelings in a manner untainted by hindsight. (If you missed the life update, check ou…

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