Text-based classes on assorted Judaic topics, with a special emphasis on Jewish history.
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Latest Episodes
A Blast From the Past: The Shabbos Shofar Showdown in the Early 1900s (Part I)
As Jews prepared for Rosh Hashanah 1904, Rabbi Akiva Yosef Shlesinger took up his pen and wrote to a rabbinic journal in Hungary, laying out why he believed the shofar...
A Chasidic Letter on Anxiety
A man wrote to the Tzemach Tzedek, the third Rebbe of Chabad, about fears he couldn’t shake in matters of health and money. What came back was a long letter working th...
HaRav Levi Yitzchak, In His Own Words: A Commemorative Study
HaRav Levi Yitzchak Schneerson spent his final years in exile in Kazakhstan, banished there by the Soviets for his work strengthening Jewish life across the Soviet Uni...
The Rabbi-Doctor Who Wrote a Sefer on the Beis Hamikdash with Both Hands Tied Behind His Back
In 1612, Avraham Portaleone of Mantua published a landmark work of encyclopedic proportions covering all things Beis Hamikdash. Reading through four of his discussions...
From Philadelphia to Newport: An Early American Teshuvah (1790)
In 1790, Moses Seixas of Newport, Rhode Island, and Manuel Josephson of Philadelphia corresponded, with Josephson composing what effectively amounts to a halachic tesh...
