Matan: One on One Parsha Podcast

In this episode, Dr. Yosefa (Fogel) Wruble and Dr. Yael Ziegler discuss a host of secondary biblical characters and their significance. They delve into the tool of 'anonymity' used with great meaning and intent in so many biblical narratives.

In this episode, Dr. Yosefa (Fogel) Wruble and Dr. Yael Ziegler discuss how to frame themes and messages surrounding a central character. Moshe, the greatest biblical leader of all time, is used as their test case.

In this first conversation of a four-part series, Dr. Yosefa (Fogel) Wruble and Dr. Yael Ziegler discuss some basic tools of biblical characterization and why they are significant for meaningful Tanakh study.

In this final episode of the series, Yosefa and Tanya transition out of the Holocaust into the most recent event of national suffering: Covid. Through a combination of modern philosophical responses and personal reflection, this episode captures the gamut of responses experienced in the past two and half years to the pandemic. NOTE! Next week--Wednesday Nov. 24th at 8:30 pm (Israeli time) --LIVE FACEBOOK EVENT! Share your thoughts and questions with us before we air at [email protected] Links to sources and books mentioned in Episode 4: R. Dr. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg on the 3 covenants: https://rabbiirvinggreenberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1Perspectives-3rd-Great-Cycle-1987-CLAL-1-of-3.pdf To read more from R. Greenberg: https://rabbiirvinggreenberg.com Bernard-Henri Levi: The Virus in the Age of Madness https://www.amazon.com/Virus-Age-Madness-Bernard-Henri-L%C3%A9vy/dp/0300257376 The Plague, Albert Camus https://www.amazon.com/The-Plague-Albert-Camus-audiobook/dp/B000K0YMZE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+plague+camus&qid=1635669419&s=books&sr=1-1 David Kessler, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Meaning-David-Kessler-audiobook/dp/B07P88B6J6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=finding+meaning+kessler&qid=1635669445&s=audible&sr=1-1 Tanya's Blog: Contemplating Torah https://contemplatingtorah.wordpress.com/ Episode Epilogue: Chanan Ben Ari Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9m54DdWgoo Yishai Ribo Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSAZnYdvVak

In this episode Dr. Yosefa (Fogel) Wruble and Tanya White discuss suffering on a national scale. Did the Holocaust break all previous molds of evil? Can it be approached with the tools mentioned in past episodes? This episodes focuses on post-Holocaust theology and how it too can help individuals in times of struggle. Source sheets: https://www.sefaria.org.il/sheets/360724?lang=he

This episode explores rabbinic sources on the topic and focuses on illness as a form of suffering. This month our host Dr. Yosefa (Fogel) Wruble and Matan faculty member Tanya White tackle the age-old problem of evil. Together they mind traditional and modern sources for relevant responses to some of our greatest struggles. See this link for source material used in this episode: https://www.sefaria.org.il/sheets/350813?lang=bi

This episode opens a new season of One on One and its first mini-series. This month our host Dr. Yosefa (Fogel) Wruble and Matan faculty member Tanya White tackle the age-old problem of evil. Together they mind traditional and modern sources for relevant responses to some of our greatest struggles. Links to books mentioned in this week's episode: The Second Mountain by David Brooks https://www.amazon.com/Second-Mountain-David-Brooks/dp/0812993268 See here a source sheet for episode 1: https://www.sefaria.org.il/sheets/347348?lang=bi

Enjoy the final parsha shiur in this series given by Dr. Yosefa (Fogel) Wruble on V'zot ha-beracha: How to Die Better Thank you for joining us for this series! Stay tuned for the coming season of One on One, hosted by Dr. Yosefa (Fogel) Wruble.

Enjoy this week's short shiur on Parshat Ha'azinu given by Rivi Frankel: Shirat Ha'azinu, a song for generations. Stay tuned for new upcoming episodes of Matan's One on One podcast!

Enjoy this short shiur on Parshat Vayelech given by Matan summer program coordinator Sarina Novick: Be There or Be Square: Hakhel, Yehoshua, and the Value of Experience

Enjoy this week's short parsha shiur on Parshat Nitzavim given by Dr. Chana Tannenbaum: Choice and the Circle of Life.

Enjoy this week's parsha shiur on Parshat Ki Tavo given by Rabbanit Shani Taragin: Land & Law, History & Halakha

Enjoy this week's short parsha shiur on Parshat Ki Tetze given by Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash, "The Beautiful Captive Woman: A New Look at Midrashic Sources."

Enjoy this week's short parsha shiur on Parshat Shoftim given by Rabbanit Surale Rosen, "The Calf That Ties Devarim and Breishit Together."

Enjoy this week's short parsha shiur on Parshat Re'eh given by Margot (Reinstein) Botwinick, “Don’t Cook a Goat in its Mother’s Milk”: The Torah’s Sensitivity to Animals."

Enjoy this week's short parsha shiur on Parshat Ekev given by Dr. Yael Ziegler: Rain and Rivers: The Difference between Israel and Egypt

Enjoy this week's short parsha shiur on Parshat Va'etchanan given by Rabbanit Leah Herzog: On the Importance of Listening.

Enjoy this week's short parsha shiur on Parshat Devarim given by Rabbanit Rebecca Linzer: A Sage is Greater than a Prophet.

In this honest and raw conversation with Dr. Erica Brown, we dive deep into the gifts and the challenges of the writing process. She opens up about her surprising journey into the Torah world and shares hard-earned wisdom gained over the years teaching and writing over ten books. This closes One on One's series on Women and Writing. What a moving journey it has been! Join us each week of Sefer Devarim for a short Parsha shiur given by Matan faculty. We will be back after the holidays with new One on One episodes.

In this fascinating conversation with Dr. Sharon Galper Grossman, MD-MPh and graduate of Matan Hasharon's Morot L' Halakha program, she speaks about her journey into the world of Halakha and Halachik writing as a radiation oncologist who trained and worked as an attending physician at Harvard. This conversation is a great reminder that life develops in chapters, and that sometimes the most rewarding experiences come when we least expect it.

In this episode, Matan Summer Program coordinator Tamar Weissman movingly discusses her love for the land of Israel and about the writing projects and life adventures that love has inspired. This episode is part of a broader series exploring women writing Torah in diversified forms. Tamar is the author of Tribal Lands: The Twelve Tribes of Israel (2015).

This episode takes us behind the scenes with two wonderful translators-- Sara Daniel and Oritt Sinclair--both currently working on translations of classic Jewish texts. We explore the art involved in their profession as well as their roles and limits as conduits of Torah transmission to a broader audience.

In this kind and transparent conversation, Shayna Goldberg speaks about her motivation for writing and about some of the pragmatic life advice she explores in her forthcoming book What do you Really Want? Trust and Fear in Decision Making at Life's Crossroads and in Everyday Living (2021). Shayna shares modern Jewish wisdom that she has developed in her decades teaching young women in High school, as a Ramit in Migdal Oz, and as a yoetzet halacha.

In this intimate and moving conversation, Simi Peters reflects on her love for midrash, for teaching, and for reading. She speaks about her journey from the uniquely devout home of holocaust survivors in New York to becoming a beloved teacher and writer in Israel. Check out Simi's book Learning to Read Midrash, a Hebrew version is forthcoming this year: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Read-Midrash-Simi-Peters/dp/9657108578

Welcome to the second season of One on One! In this season we explore women writing Torah, Halakha, Jewish wisdom, midrash, and so much more. What moves them to write? How has writing changed their careers? How can we encourage women to write more? In this insightful and empowering episode, Matan graduates and teachers Rabbanit Surale Rosen and Fran Miller speak about their passion for halakha and Talmud and about their joint endeavor, Shayla: Matan Women's Online Responsa.

In this intimate conversation about the shaping of a world of women's learning, Rabbanit Malka Bina shares Matan history as well as moving personal stories. With this conversation, we close the first season of this podcast, speaking with the unique woman who created it all. Stay tuned for the next season in which we delve into women's Torah writing, leading and other fascinating topics.

In this fun, personable, and honest conversation, seasoned tour guide Shulie Mishkin speaks about her professional life (in corona and non-corona times), raising an observant family in a post-modern age, and the dynamic relationship between Torah and the land of Israel. Note: This episode was recorded at the end of Israel's third lockdown, and this is reflected at several points in the conversation. Shulie Mishkin is a licensed tour guide who in normal times guides all ages all over Israel and gives tour and text courses at Matan and other institutions. She is currently focusing on virtual tours, bringing Israel to the world and the world to Israel. She was a Matan Beit Midrash Scholar in 1993-94.

Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson taught at Matan for over a decade. She is currently a senior lecturer at the Harry Radzyner School of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. Ayelet is a graduate of Matan's Advanced Talmud Institute as well as the Beit Morasha Program in Jewish Law. In this enlightening conversation, Ayelet speaks about her journey into the Torah learning world and about the fascinating thesis of her book, Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud. Ayelet reminds us that the most pressing questions of the modern age are rarely new, and how a deep look at our rabbinic sources can shed endless light on these questions.

In this important and honest conversation, Rabbanit Shani Taragin speaks about her perspective on the Achilles heels of current Torah education and the need for more Torah ambassadors in Israel and beyond.

Margot (Reinstein) Botwinick is a graduate of Matan's Bellows Eshkolot Educators Institute for Tanakh and Jewish Studies. She and her husband currently serve as the Mizrahi/OU/JLIC couple on the IDC campus. In this episode, Margot shares her organic journey into the world of Torah study and Torah leadership and speaks about her unique involvement in religious life on the IDC campus.

Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash teaches contemporary halacha and Talmud at Matan and is a graduate of its Advanced Talmud Institute and in Hilkhata, a program for the advanced study of halacha. In this engaging and honest conversation, Nechama speaks about aspects of Orthodox life that both embrace and challenge her identity as a feminist. She speaks about the writing process and the fascinating content of her upcoming book on issues of nakedness in Talmudic texts and Jewish Law.

Tanya White is a graduate of Matan’s Matmidot program and teaches in Matan’s Raanana and Zichron Yaakov branches. She has lectured for Matan in North America and her zoom classes attract hundreds of students from around the world. In this conversation she speaks about her journey as a philosophically curious young woman in England to becoming a revered lecturer and writer on the cusp of completing her doctorate in post-holocaust theology. Tanya’s intellectual creativity and passionate personality leaves a moving mark on all those she meets. Items mentioned in this episode: R. Irving Greenberg, about whose works Tanya is writing her doctoral thesis: https://rabbiirvinggreenberg.com/ On Tanya’s nightstand: Leon Kass, Leading a Worthy Life https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Worthy-Life-Finding-Meaning/dp/1594039410

Dr. Yael Ziegler is a senior Tanakh lecturer at Matan and Herzog College and is a graduate of the Matan Scholars Program. In this inspiring conversation she shares her perspective on the shifts in women's and men's Torah learning witnessed in her 30 years of teaching. She speaks candidly about her experience writing commentaries on Tanakh that intend to both enlighten and elevate the reader. Dr. Ziegler's warm personality and positive outlook on the evolution of societal change steered a conversation we didn't want to end. Related links and institutions mentioned in this episode: Herzog College: https://www.herzog.ac.il/ Dr. Yael Ziegler's previous book on Ruth for purchase: https://korenpub.com/products/ruthhardcover

Rabbanit Adv. Yardena Bodenheimer (Cope-Yossef) has spent years learning, teaching, and leading Torah learning programming at Matan and other institutions. Sixteen years ago she founded the first women’s daf yomi group at Matan, a group she still teaches until this day. She was one of the founders and directors of the Matan Advanced Talmudic Institute. In this moving conversation, she speaks about her childhood and the Jewish education she received in Chicago, her unique career in the Jewish Law department at the Ministry of Justice, and her work as a fertility advisor. Sound and Production: Tsofia Vindish ******

Opportunities for women to engage in serious Torah study, have expanded over the decades thanks in no small measure to the vision and determination of Rabbanit Malke Bina who built Matan and created a thriving Beit Midrash where women have a warm seat. One on One, hosted by Matan graduate and faculty member Dr. Yosefa (Fogel) Wruble, brings you candid and personal conversations with women Torah scholars, leaders and learners. They speak about how they came to the world of learning, their current work and their vision for the future of the Torah world and women's roles in that world. Each guest brings a unique prism to the conversation and each has a moving story to tell.

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