Season 2 · Episode 4
The Sea of Torah with Rabbi Joel Goldstein
Can't Stop Scrolling · Avidan Halivni and Rabbi Avigayil Halpern
February 16, 202647m 10s
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Show Notes
In this episode, Rabbi Joel Goldstein joins us to discuss if it is harder to work on a submarine or in a Jewish high school, parallels between baseball and Judaism, and hierarchies in the Beit Midrash. Plus, do Jewish educators overdo chavruta learning?
Primary Source: Vayikra Rabbah 2:1 -- Is the study of Talmud an elitist project?
Other sources mentioned:
- Ramban on Exodus 12:2., on Marheshvan: "Our Rabbis have already mentioned this matter when saying, “The names of the months came up with us from Babylon,” (Yerushalmi RH 1:2), since at first we had no names for the months. The reason for this [adoption of the names of the months when our ancestors returned from Babylon to build the Second Temple], was that at first their reckoning was a memorial to the exodus from Egypt, but when we came up from Babylon, and the words of Scripture were fulfilled (Jeremiah 16:14-15) from then on we began to call the months by the names they were called in the land of Babylon."
- Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer 10:7 on Jonah's midrashic tour of the sea.