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Liel Leibovitz: Why the Talmud Is So Hard To Love—and Worth Loving
In this episode, Liel reflects on falling in love with the Talmud precisely because it is so difficult—and on how its questions,…
What Does Yom Kippur Even Mean to Me?
Your 18Forty Holiday Guide explores the meaning and relevance behind each of the holidays in the Jewish calendar. Receive this newsletter in…
Why Moshe Leaves Behind a Song
Your 18Forty Parsha Guide is a weekly newsletter exploring five major takeaways from the weekly parsha. Receive this newsletter every week in…
YY Jacobson: The Teshuva of Coming Back to Yourself
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Rabbi YY Jacobson, one of the foremost online teachers of Torah, about…
YY Jacobson: The Teshuva of Coming Back to Yourself
We talk to Rabbi YY Jacobson about how each of us can experience redemptive consciousness by feeling Hashem’s infinite love and presence…
Self-Deception and Redemption in the Book of Jonah
I Read This Over Shabbos is a weekly newsletter from Rivka Bennun Kay about Jewish book culture, book recommendations, and modern ideas.…
Gedale Fenster: ‘Focus on the message, you won’t stay in the mess’
Gedale Fenster joins us to discuss how to live a life of unshakeable faith and joy.
Day 30: Tolerating Uncertainty
In Theory: Within the psychodynamic tradition, therapy does not deliver a person to certainty about who they are, what they feel, or…
What Does This Mean to Me?
Your 18Forty Holiday Guide explores the meaning and relevance behind each of the holidays in the Jewish calendar. Receive this newsletter in…
Day 29: Sublimation
In Theory: Among the defense mechanisms, sublimation holds a distinctive place in psychodynamic theory. As described by Sigmund Freud, sublimation is the…
Day 28: The Capacity To Be Alone
In Theory: Within the psychodynamic tradition, D. W. Winnicott made a paradoxical observation that the capacity to be alone is acquired in…
Etan Epstein: New Journeys in Torah Learning
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Rabbi Etan Epstein, the founder of The 300 Club, a program of…