Parshat Chayei Sarah - Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse on October 28th 2021 as they explore the Bible’s euphemism for death: “and he was gathered unto his people” as an opportunity to question our assumptions regarding the biblical view of the afterlife … with much appreciation to Jon D. Levenson. Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life. Sefaria Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/357282 For a full transcript of the podcast go to the podcast web site here: https://madlik.com/2021/10/27/life-is-with-people-and-so-is-death/      

Madlik Podcast – Torah Thoughts on Judaism From a Post-Orthodox Jew

Life is with People and so is Death

A live recording of Madlik Disruptive Torah on clubhouse with Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz as we ask: Was it the Binding of Isaac or the Sacrifice of Isaac and what difference does it make? We use the seminal story of the miraculous birth of Isaac and the hints at the Sacrifice and Resurrection of Isaac in the biblical and later Rabbinic texts to explore the meaning of these themes in Judaism and Christianity.  Other "guests" include, Søren Kierkegaard, Jon D Levenson, Daniel Boyarin, Shalom Spiegel, Seth Daniel Kunin and some surprising Rabbinic Midrashic texts. Sefaria Source Sheet:  www.sefaria.org/sheets/356011 Transcript of the episode webpage here: https://madlik.com/2021/10/21/the-miraculous-birth-and-resurrection-of-isaac/  

The Miraculous Birth and Resurrection of Isaac

Recorded live on Clubhouse on Friday October 15th 2021 Parshat Lech Lecha - Geoffrey Stern, Rabbi Adam Mintz and Rabbi Abraham Bronstein explore various ways of viewing Abraham's epic journey and how it reflects our own. Sefaria Source Sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/354270 Transcript (excerpt): You know, I could make the argument that Abraham was the first atheist. And what I mean to say is, if you look at Abraham from the perspective of Terach, or if you follow the story of Nimrod, who puts him into a fiery furnace? Here is a guy who's saying that everything the world believe was a God does not exist. He says, No, the sun has no power, the stars have no power, this Totem, this animal, it has no power. And and what he was claiming, was, in fact, of a power and of course, this is all a projection of the Midrash, or of Maimonides or of the Zohar was this hidden this unseen, untouchable thing from the perspective of the landed powers that be he was denying God, he was denying all that they believed in and from that perspective it leads all the way to Spinoza, who was excommunicated by saying God is no way but God is everywhere. Maybe he was the first secularist. Avraham Bronstein  20:13 You remind me of Peter Brown. So Peter Brown, the great historian of the Roman Empire, and one of his books about religion in the ancient Roman Empire, or the classical world, talks about how the Judeans, the original Jews were seen as atheists by the more polytheist, pre Christian Roman Empire at the time, because they couldn't comprehend how Jews maintain the belief not in their God, but in a god. It didn't make any sense to them. Geoffrey Stern  20:44 Fantastic. Yochanan welcome to the bima Yochanan  20:48 Thanks, thanks. Thanks so much for having me. By the way, Rabbi Maza, the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, 400 years ago, he says what you just said. So he says that Abraham was a kultur b'kalim . He was like, like you said, he was the first secularist or atheists to to deny all the deities, all the old the religions of the environment. For full Transcript: https://madlik.com/2021/10/14/abrahams-epic-journey-and-our-own/  

Abraham's Epic Journey and our Own

Noah's Rainbow

Exile and Return - From the Beginning

turn! turn! turn! I hope it's not too late

Blame it on DAD

Aleph Bet Revolution

Not in Heaven

Chosen

Listening to the lyrics of Jewish Law

You Are Not My Boss

Kashrut, Yashrut and the Flesh of Desire

Practicing Judaism in and out of your back yard

Shema Yisrael and the struggle against Cheap Faith

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