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Episode 2: Redefining Happiness
In this episode of Strive for Truth, I explore Rav Eliyahu Dessler’s opening teaching on happiness together with Rabbi Michael Cohen, challenging one of the most deepl...
Shevat: Growth Beneath the Surface
Just as the zodiac of Shevat, the D’li (bucket), has no value on its own and only matters when it is filled with water and carried to those who need it, this month inv...
Episode 1: Rebuilding the Inner Operating System
In this opening episode of Strive for Truth, I’m joined by Rabbi Michael Cohen to introduce the work of Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler and to explain why this text requires a f...
What This Podcast Is Really About: Six Seasons In
After six seasons of conversations, questions, and learning, this episode steps back to clarify what The Shema Podcast has always been about. Torah is not meant to be ...
Night Vision in the Darkness of Teves
Teves is not a month of spiritual absence but a test of perception, and this episode is about learning how to meet that test. I explore why Chanukkah intentionally flo...
Forged in Exile: Babylon and the Birth of the Talmud
In this episode of The Sages of the Talmud, I’m joined by Morty Roth to step into the world where the Babylonian Talmud was formed. Before we profile individual sages,...
The Physics of Creation with Dr. Berel Epstein
In this episode, we explore a big idea at the intersection of Torah and modern physics: Torah is the blueprint of creation, and as science advances, it often ends up c...
The Nature of Our Relationship with Eisav and Yishmael with Rabbi Daniel Rowe
In this episode, we are joined with Rabbi Daniel Rowe to unpack one of the most sensitive and misunderstood subjects in Torah: our ongoing relationship with Eisav and ...
The Hidden Light of Kislev
In this episode Rabbi Pill returns to explore the deep spiritual current that runs from Tishrei through Cheshvan into the month of Kislev, revealing why this time is f...
Becoming a Nation of Priests with Rabbi Yaakov Klein
In this episode, I sit down with Rabbi Yaakov Klein to explore one of the most misunderstood ideas in Torah: our destiny to become a nation of priests for all humanity...
A Nation Tailored In Fire
In this episode, A Nation Tailored in Fire, I explore a powerful teaching from Rav Avigdor Miller about how Hashem created the Jewish people with a fiery nature—stubbo...
The Power of the Month of Cheshvan featuring Rabbi Pill
In this episode, I sit down with Rabbi Pill to explore the power of Mar Cheshvan and discover that it’s not a spiritual lull at all, but the time when we’re meant to i...
When Science Meets Sinai: A Conservation with Dr. Berel Leib Epstein
In this episode, I sit down with physicist and author of Emunah and Physics, Dr. Berel Leib Epstein, to explore how modern physics—fine-tuning, quantum observation, an...
Under One Sukkah: The Necessity of the Four Species and Jewish Unity
This Sukkos, as we sit together under one roof, the lulav and etrog in our hands carry a message far deeper than ritual. The four species are not symbols of difference...
The Power of the Hebrew Month of Tishrei featuring Rabbi Pill
This episode is another installment of our ongoing series, The Power of the Hebrew Months, where we explore the unique spiritual energy of each time in the Jewish cale...
Dovid HaMelech as the Merkavah of Malchus with Rabbi Gershon Meisel
In this closing episode of the Merkavah Series, we explore Malchus as the culmination of all the Sefiros where everything we’ve built within ourselves is finally broug...
Yosef HaTzaddik the Merkavah of Yesod with Rabbi Gershon Meisel
In this Merkavah installment we explore Yesod and Yosef HaTzaddik as the foundation that brings spiritual intent into concrete reality. We trace how Yosef’s journey, f...
The Halacha of Conversion: What the Torah Really Says with Rabbi Pill
In this episode, we tackle one of the most sensitive and often misunderstood topics in Jewish life: conversion. Together with Rabbi Pill, we explore what the Torah and...
Aharon HaKohen the Merkavah of Hod with Rabbi Gershon Meisel
In this episode, Rabbi Gershon Meisel joins us to explore Aharon HaKohen as the Merkavah of Hod—the attribute of splendor, humility, and peace. Through stories of our ...
Sages of the Talmud – the Ten Martyrs | featuring Morty Roth
In this episode of Sages of the Talmud, timed for the upcoming Yom Kippur, we introduce the Ten Martyrs as both a doorway into ten towering sages and a frame for how t...
