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Season 1: Episode 29 – Epilogue

The Expulsion from Spain marks a turning point in Jewish history. In addition to a national trauma which evokes the memory of the Temple’s destruction, it challenges the model of identity which has served the Jews for nearly 2000 years. In this epilogue, Rav Mike takes a look back at where we have been in…

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Season 1: Episode 21 – From Moshe to Moshe

The Rambam was the second famous Moses in Jewish History. His accomplishments in Jewish law and philosophy tower over his contemporaries, and are pillars of of the Torah to this very day. Nonetheless, he was the source of great controversy in his day, igniting a struggle which ended in excommunications and book burning. Want to…

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Season 1: Episode 20 – My Heart is in the East

Yehudah Halevi was the poet of a generation, and perhaps the most celebrated poet of medieval Spain. He also swam against the tide of philosophical rationalism and invited his readers to experience the Torah from the inside. But how did the national poet of Jewish Spain die outside the walls of Jerusalem? Want to help…

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