Listen: The Power of Midrash
May 17, 2023
Revisit this Shavuot podcast in which Rabbi Deborah Waxman and Rabbi Mira Wasserman discuss the power of midrash, an imaginative act that can give new life to the Torah and ourselves.
Revisit this Shavuot podcast in which Rabbi Deborah Waxman and Rabbi Mira Wasserman discuss the power of midrash, an imaginative act that can give new life to the Torah and ourselves.
Rabbi Jeremy Schwartz gathers a range of texts to spark discussion and evoke the experience of receiving the Torah at Sinai.
Sivan Rotholz’s poem for Shavuot imagines a different kind of harvest, one where “we reap and reap but know not what or whether we sow.”
Rabbi Ruhi Sophia Rubenstein implores us to grapple with Torah’s most problematic aspects to find new meaning in the text.
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