Best Pesah Podcasts (2025)

When you stop to think about it, Pesah Sheini is a very strange holiday, with a motivation that would be incomprehensible for almost any other festival. As we read in Bemidbar 9, some people were ritually impure on the 14th of Nisan—the eve of Pesah—and therefore unable to perform the foundational mitzvah of slaughtering and eating a paschal offeri…

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Sacrifice for Torah

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The Mishnah in Pirkeh Avot (6:4) teaches: כך היא דרכה של תורה: פת במלח תאכל ומים במשורה תשתה ועל הארץ תישן וחיי צער תחיה ובתורה אתה עמל . This is the way of Torah: You eat bread with salt, you drink water in rations, you lie on the ground, and you live a life of distress – and you toil in Torah. At first glance, the Mishnah is telling us that the T…

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R. Tali Adler on Bemidbar: A Jew Without Sinai 10:06

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To be a Jew is, when we are lucky, to feel the memory of Sinai in our bones. We strive to feel as if we have experienced both the slavery and liberation of Egypt first hand, as if we ourselves saw God’s miracles.By Hadar Institute

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Shavuot: What Did We Hear at Sinai? 7:24

6d ago7:24

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What did we hear at Sinai? What does God want us to hear?By Hadar Institute

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Unconditional Love

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The Mishnah in Pirkeh Avot (5:16) teaches: כל אהבה שהיא תלויה בדבר – בטל דבר, בטלה אהבה . ושאינה תלויה בדבר, אינה בטלה לעולם . Any love that is dependent on something – once that thing is gone, the love is gone; but [love] that is not dependent on anything will never be gone. As an example of אהבה התלויה בדבר – love that is dependent on something –…

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - From Barley To Bread 10:49

12d ago10:49

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Parashat Emor

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - It's Hidden Inside! 13:42

12d ago13:42

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Parashat Emor

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat BeHar-BeHukkotai: Breaking the Cycle 8:38

13d ago8:38

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When it comes to the enslavement of Jews, God gives us two imperatives. First, strive to be like God. Failing that, resist the temptation to become like the Egyptians.By Hadar Institute

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - Stay Special 10:58

13d ago10:58

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Parshat Emor

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - No Intermediate 16:11

13d ago16:11

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Parshat Emor

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi -Hashem Is A Kohen! 18:07

13d ago18:07

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Parshat Emor

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - Even In The Holiest Place 8:46

13d ago8:46

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Parshat Emor

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R. Shai Held: Psalm for Friday 28:12

15d ago28:12

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The psalms attached liturgically to each day of the week are often mumbled over quickly, without much attention to their meaning. In this series, we'll engage in careful literary-theological readings of these psalms, looking at how various midrashim interpret the psalms, and bring new meaning to this part of our daily prayers. Key themes explored w…

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on Lag Ba'Omer: The Paradox of Respect and Humility 6:58

18d ago6:58

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What makes Lag Ba’Omer, the 33rd day of the Omer, special? Why has this day become an oasis of relief, and even celebration, amidst the generally mournful period between Pesah and Shavuot? The Talmud tells us simply that one year, R. Akiva’s 24,000 students all died between Pesah and Shavuot; a post-talmudic tradition asserts that the plague that f…

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The Intelligence of Respect (From last year 2024)

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We are currently observing the period of sefirat ha'omer , when we refrain from festive celebrations and from haircutting and shaving, as we mourn the tragic death of Rabbi Akiva's thousands of students. The Gemara (Yevamot 62b) famously teaches that Rabbi Akiva's students died as a punishment for their failure to treat each other with proper respe…

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Emor: A Tale of Two Structures 7:40

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Parashat Emor features two types of ritual buildings: the first, the mishkan (tabernacle), later transformed into the beit ha-mikdash (Temple); and the second, a sukkah. We encounter the mikdash this week, mostly in the form of limits on who may serve in it and how they must conduct themselves. Those who may serve there are not allowed to engage wi…

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - Just For The Present Time 21:47

20d ago21:47

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Parashat Aharey Mot

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - Might Be Too Much? 18:06

20d ago18:06

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Parshat Kedoshim

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - Don't Miss Out! 3:14

20d ago3:14

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Parshat Tazria

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - Pesah Sheni 2 14:55

20d ago14:55

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Pesah Sheni

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - Pesah Sheni 15:44

20d ago15:44

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Pesah Sheni

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We Are Meant To Soar (From 2022)

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A fable is told of an egg in an eagle's nest high in the branches of a towering tree, that fell out of the nest and landed in the middle of a chicken coup. It soon hatched, and a baby eagle emerged. The baby bird looked around, saw the other chickens, and naturally figured that it, too, was a chicken. It realized that its wings looked much differen…

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - Why The Kohen? 11:40

26d ago11:40

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Parshat Tazria

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi- The Falling Fruits 9:30

26d ago9:30

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Parshat Tazria

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - Mosquitoes Free! 14:43

26d ago14:43

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Parshat Tazria

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - Just The Infection 8:26

26d ago8:26

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Parshat Tazria

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - Immune Remedy 7:19

26d ago7:19

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Parshat Tazria

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - Pirkey Avot 24:55

26d ago24:55

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Pirkey Avot

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Episode 1: R' Jadidi - Make For Yourself A Coach 6:37

26d ago6:37

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Pirkey Avot

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R. Tali Adler on Aharei Mot-Kedoshim: Two Wounds 7:49

27d ago7:49

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Yom Kippur, depending on who tells its story, is animated by one of two central wounds.By Hadar Institute

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R. Avi Strausberg: A God of Truth? 33:02

29d ago33:02

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The Talmud teaches us that God is a God of truth who it would seem values honesty. Yet, what does that mean for all of our questions and doubts? Is there a limit to how honest we can be and are there situations in which another value trumps honesty for the sake of something greater? This class, which is part 1 of a 3 part series, will turn to Talmu…

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Focus on YOUR Journey

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The Vilna Gaon, in his commentary to the Book of Mishleh (16:1-4), discusses how each and every person is created as a unique and distinct being, different from all other people. We all have not only a distinctive appearance, but also a distinctive set of qualities, natural talents, and ways of thinking and processing what we see and learn. This is…

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R. Tali Adler on Parashat Tazria-Metzora: The Discovery of Birth 7:04

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Each of us was brought into this world by someone who allowed their body to become home to a stranger. This is what mothers do before we meet our children: watch, sometimes in wonder, and sometimes in grief, as the bodies which were once ours alone grow, bend, ache, and change in ways that make us unrecognizable to ourselves. Feel our ribs widen, o…

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R. Micha'el Rosenberg on HaZikaron/Yom Ha'Atzma’ut: The Religious Sensibility of Hatikvah 6:20

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Although it eventually won out, it was not always obvious that “Hatikvah” would be the Israeli national anthem. There were other competitors, and various critiques of the poem written by Naphtali Hertz Imber. Among those critiques was a voice from at least some religious Zionists who thought the work too secular to reflect the religious import of t…

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Doing the Right Thing the Right Way (From last year 2024)

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The beginning of Parashat Shemini tells us of the first day that Aharon and his sons served as Kohanim. Hashem commanded that several special sacrifices be offered in honor of this day, one of which was an עגל – a calf – which Aharon was to bring as a sin-offering. The commentaries explain that Aharon was required to sacrifice an עגל to atone for h…