Episodes
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Beis Yosef vs. Kesef Mishneh: Following the Paper Trail
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Jews and Booze: Uncorking the Wine Debate During the Age of Prohibition
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Wine: Blind Tastes, Price Controls, and the Most Regulated Wine Market You’ve Ever Seen
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Isaiah 53 on Trial: The 1863 Vienna Case That Split Jewish Leadership
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The Hostage Dilemma: Part IV (Israel, 1979–1987)
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The Hostage Dilemma: Part III (Israel, 1970–1976)
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The Hostage Dilemma: Part II
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The Hostage Dilemma: Part I
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Bidding Wars: Inside the History of Selling Shul Honors
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We’ve Been Singing It All Wrong? Solving the V'chol Maaminim Mystery
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The Saga of Shul Shmoozing: A Historical Look at Talking in Shul Across the Centuries
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The Cantonist Crisis
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The Four Halls That Never Were: A Critical Look at Yosifun’s Design of the Beis Hamikdash
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The Draft Dilemma: The Chilling Reality of Jews Deciding Who Gets Drafted
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The Dilemma of Handing Over One to Save Many
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The Rabbi Who Couldn’t Quit Gambling
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Up High or Down Low? The Battle Over the Proper Trop for the Aseres Hadibros
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The Great Semicha Controversy, Part II
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The Great Semicha Controversy, 1538
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The Doctored Talmud: Prague, 1728
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The Marranos’ Secret Pesach
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The Machine Matzah Controversy
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The Story of the Alter Rebbe’s Script
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Rambam, the Almohads, and the Secret Jews
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Rambam to the Rescue: His Legendary Letter to Yemen
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The Regensburg Blood Libel
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The Scandalous Marriage, 1348
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Taxes and Tensions: The Story of Jewish Tax Disputes in Medieval Spain
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Josephus
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Lost Lights of Chanukah: Exploring the Books of Maccabees
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The Titanic Question: The Halachic Dilemma of Men Lost at Sea
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Benches, Bargains, and Bickering: Shul Seating in the Middle Ages
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The Climate Clash: Rain, Rabbis, and Rulings for the Southern Hemisphere
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The Warder Cresson Story
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The Rebbe’s Rashi: Insights from Manuscripts and Incunabula Editions
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Rooted in Tradition: The Calabria Esrog Story
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Lost in the Geniza: An Anonymous Teshuvah on the Two-Day Yom Tov Debate
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The Vanishing Verses: Curious Cases of Textual Tampering in Our Machzor
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Art of the Blast: Shofar Blowing Customs in Medieval Manuscripts
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Fowl Play: The Great Turkey-Chicken Debate of the 19th Century
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Dreams of Revision: The Role of Dreams in Altering Halachic Rulings
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The Rabbi Who Wouldn’t Wait: A Proposal to Reinstate the Korbanos
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Unconditional Love: A Commemorative Study of a Talk by the Lubavitcher Rebbe
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The Provocative Portrait: Unveiling the True Face of Moshe Rabbeinu
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Yom Tov Burial: The Talmud, the Rishonim, and the Baal Shem Tov
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The Masada Martyrs: Halachic Perspectives on History’s Hardest Choices
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Grain Matters: Navigating the Chadash Predicament Across the Centuries
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The Frankist Blood Libel
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The Kittsee Haggadah
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The Printers’ Clash: The Battle Over Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, Venice 1550