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This Pesach, We Honor Our Disordered Love
You can download a PDF of all four articles in this Pesach Reader here. For many people, and even more lecturers, the…
Menachem Penner & Gedalia Robinson: A Child’s Orientation
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Rabbi Menachem Penner—dean of RIETS at Yeshiva University—and his son Gedalia—a musician,…
Intergenerational Divergence: A Story of Unchanging Change
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. –…
How Family Has Stretched and Changed Throughout the Ages
Meet Oswald Spengler (1880-1936). Oswald, or Ozzie for short, was a German historian and philosopher of history who gained great renown for…
Daniel Grama & Aliza Grama: A Child in Recovery
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Rabbi Daniel Grama—rabbi of Westside Shul and Valley Torah High School—and…
What Generational Differences Mean to Me
My father is quite different religiously than his father was. Growing up in the 1950s in North Adams, MA, even those families…
Suffering, Purim, and the Grogger
Consider: Why do we use a grogger? In a world in which it sometimes feels like everything makes just a bit too…
Contending With God? This Reader Is For You.
In the literature of the Jewish people, we have great works of faith, testaments to a millenia-long fascination with God. This faith,…
God: A Timeline
Living in history without living in the past Is what the task is. -Charles Wright How does one make a timeline of…
What God Means to Me
Whenever I visit my parents’ house, I always find a few minutes to sneak off and rummage through my childhood bedroom. Childhood…
Dr. Aaron Segal: Can God Be Proven?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Aaron Segal, philosophy professor and student of both Rav Aharon…
Rabbi David Aaron: How Should We Talk About God?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Rabbi David Aaron, author, thinker, and educator, to discuss what God…