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parshat Vayetzei – genesis 31

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. In a week where indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Qatar and with pressure from the public and the US have appeared to have reached a tentative and partial hostage deal, we explore, what according to Rabbinic tradition was the first instance of an anti-Israel campaign and its resolution. Is this a model of how we deal with our neighbors with whom we disagree? What are the lessons to be learnt?

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Transcript:

Welcome to Madlik.  My name is Geoffrey Stern and at Madlik we light a spark or shed some light on a Jewish Text or Tradition.  Along with Rabbi Adam Mintz we host Madlik Disruptive Torah on clubhouse every week. This week’s parsha is Vayetzei. In a week where indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Qatar and with pressure from the public and the US have appeared to have reached a tentative and partial hostage deal, we explore, what according to Rabbinic tradition was the first instance of an anti-Israel campaign and its resolution. Is this a model of how we deal with our neighbors with whom we disagree? What are the lessons to be learnt? So join us for Conflict Resolution.

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Listen to last year’s episode: Mother Rachel Comes to Me

parshat toldot – genesis 26

Rav Stav is the co-founder of the Tzohar, a rabbinical organization which aims to provide religious services to and create dialogue with the broader Israeli population. He also serves as the rabbi of the city of Shoham. Previously he served as the rabbi of the religious film school, Maale, and was one of the founding heads of Yeshivat Hesder Petach Tikva. He is the author of Bein Ha-Zemanim, a book about culture and recreation in Jewish thought and law. One of Israel’s most visible rabbinic figures, he regularly appears on Israeli television and radio, and lectures to a wide range of audiences. We discuss his organization and the challenges and opportunities presented by the war and its aftermath.

parshat lech lecha – Genesis 12

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. What about Abraham was so radical? What about Abraham has created such extremes of love and hate… such rivalry, such animosity, such promise and such despair?

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Transcript:

Welcome to Madlik.  My name is Geoffrey Stern and at Madlik we light a spark or shed some light on a Jewish Text or Tradition.  Along with Rabbi Adam Mintz we host Madlik Disruptive Torah on clubhouse every Thursday and share it as the Madlik podcast on your favorite platform. This week’s parsha is Lech Lecha. Abraham leaves his homeland and the journey of the Jewish people begins. But what about Abraham was so radical? What about Abraham has created such extremes of love and hate… such rivalry, such animosity, such promise and such despair? Join us for Abraham and the birth of the Jewish Problem.

Listen to last year’s episode: Call me Ishmael

parshat noach – genesis 6

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. Noah has been denigrated for saving only himself and his family and for not saving all of humanity. In a world where victims and survivors of terrorism are vilified and protecting ones life and the security of ones family a sin, we look at Noah differently and learn something about ourselves and our enemies.

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Listen to last year’s episode: With regret, God

parshat bereshit – the war from gaza

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. As Hamas finally achieves its goal of massacring thousands of Israelis we reconsider the Talmudic saying that he who kills a single human being destroys the world…. and we cry.

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Transcript:

Welcome to Madlik.  My name is Geoffrey Stern and at Madlik we light a spark or shed some light on a Jewish Text or Tradition.  Along with Rabbi Adam Mintz we host Madlik Disruptive Torah on clubhouse every Thursday and share it as the Madlik podcast on your favorite platform. This week’s parsha is Bereshit and as Hamas finally achieves its goal of massacring thousands of Israelis, we reconsider the Talmudic saying that man was created single to teach that for anybody who destroys a single life it is counted as if he destroyed an entire world. So join us as we mourn and discuss: A Single Life

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Listen to last year’s episode: Shared Blessings

parshat v’zot haberachah, deuteronomy 33

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. –  As we finish the annual Torah cycle we use the legendary partnership between Zebulun and Issachar  to explore Rabbinic Judaism’s various and many times conflicting position on financial support for Torah Study.

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Welcome to Madlik.  My name is Geoffrey Stern and at Madlik we light a spark or shed some light on a Jewish Text or Tradition.  Along with Rabbi Adam Mintz we host Madlik Disruptive Torah on clubhouse every Thursday and share it as the Madlik podcast on your favorite platform. Tomorrow evening in Israel it will be Simchat Torah and here in the US we will celebrate the completion of the annual Torah cycle on Saturday night and on Sunday we will read Ve’zot habracha. Moses blesses all the tribe including a reference to a legendary partnership between Zebulun and Issachar where Zebulin engages in commerce and support Issachar who studies Toran.  We will explore Rabbinic Judaism’s various and many times conflicting position on financial support for Torah Study. Join us for Learning Torah for a Living.

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Listen to last year’s episode: turn! turn! turn! I hope it’s not too late

yom kippur – hoshana rabba

Join Geoffrey Stern recorded on Clubhouse. The gates of repentance are open until Hoshana Raba so should the opportunities to sermonize. Fifty years after the Yom Kippur war here is the Yom Kippur Sermon I wish I heard… and didn’t

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Welcome to Madlik.  My name is Geoffrey Stern and at Madlik we light a spark or shed some light on a Jewish Text or Tradition.  Along with Rabbi Adam Mintz we host Madlik Disruptive Torah on clubhouse every Thursday and share it as the Madlik podcast on your favorite platform. Rabbi Mintz has a congregation and gets to give a Kol Nidre sermon.  I have the Madlik Family.  According to our tradition the gates of repentance are open until Hoshana Raba so should the opportunities to hear and give your sermon. Fifty years after the Yom Kippur war here is the Yom Kippur Sermon I wish I heard…

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Listen to last year’s episode: Falling Sukkah