I'm So Proud of the Jewish People, and Other Thoughts: Living Life While Israel is at War (BONUS EPISODE)
After ten days of war in Israel, Scott talks about the Jewish People, the Divine Presence, people who are emulating the wicked son from the Pesach Seder, why Jews Who Matter need to read the Book of E...
17 Okt 202324min
The Catastrophic Success of Hamas, and Israel's Massive Response: A Deeper Look at Israel's War Against Hamas, with Dr. Matthew Levitt (178)
There are so many questions, and people want to know what's actually happening. In this special rush-released episode of the Orthodox Conundrum, Scott speaks with Dr. Matthew Levitt about Israel's war...
12 Okt 202342min
There Was Before... And Now There's After: Reflections on the War in Israel with Talli Rosenbaum and David Lange (177)
In this special episode of the Orthodox Conundrum, Scott spoke with Talli Rosenbaum to discuss ways to deal with the very real trauma and emotional distress that the war in Israel has caused, whether ...
9 Okt 202347min
"A Theology of Distraction": Exploring the Conundrums of Kohelet with Dr. Erica Brown (176)
Megilat Kohelet is one of the most difficult books in Tanach: it jumps back and forth between conflicting assumptions, it lacks any obvious narrative or thematic structure, and its statements sometime...
26 Sep 20231h 6min
Guilt and Shame, Repentance and Redemption: A Deeper Dive into Teshuva with Elisheva Liss (175)
The ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are dedicated to teshuva, commonly translated as "repentance" or "return." According to the Rambam's classic formulation, repentance consists of three...
18 Sep 20231h 8min
"It's About Holding People in their Pain": Infertility and the Orthodox Community, with Dr. Aimee Baron (174)
Rosh Hashanah is a day of judgment, but it also represents renewal, hope, confidence, and optimism as we look toward the future. This is expressed in many ways, but perhaps most obviously in the Torah...
11 Sep 20231h 3min
When God Says No: A Pre-Selichot Conversation with Rebecca Sarchi (Special Episode)
The tefilot of the Yamim Nora'im - starting from Selichot and continuing through Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur - are deep and meaningful, but also long and often quite hard to understand. But that diff...
6 Sep 202328min
"I Didn't Know There Could Be a Bad Rabbi": Confronting Emotional and Religious Abuse, with Rabbi Mark Dratch and Mrs. Rachel Dratch (173)
What may a teacher or kiruv professional do in order to make people frum? Do the ends of bringing people closer to Torah justify the means of manipulating them emotionally? And even if the methodology...
28 Aug 20231h 14min
