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Vayera: What is My Sacrifice?

An Experimental Devar Torah

Published on Volozhin and Kropotkin: A Misfit Torah Newsletter • Nov 19

The Peshat and Derash of Sacrifice

Exploring The Spaces Between The Text and The Story.

Published on Volozhin and Kropotkin: A Misfit Torah Newsletter • Nov 15

Fake Crying Isn't Fake

Some Chassidishe Torah, Maybe

Nov 1 •

Akiva Weisinger

August 2024

July 2024

Kuzari Class Six: The Influence of Power Against The Divine Influence

And How the Kuzari's Paradise Isn't Necessarily the Afterlife.

Jul 31 •

Akiva Weisinger

41:15

Kuzari Class 5: The Golden Calf

R. Yehuda HaLevi vs. The Rambam on the Treachery of Images

Jul 24 •

Akiva Weisinger

39:10

Kuzari Class Four: How Can God Speak To Human Beings?

And Why Shrugging Your Shoulders and Going "Idk" Might Be The Right Answer

Jul 17 •

Akiva Weisinger

56:45

[ReRun from 2023] Parshas Chukas: The Bitter(?) Waters of Miriam

This One's Ambitious, Pray for Me

Jul 12 •

Akiva Weisinger

Was Gershom Scholem A Kabbalist?

And what trying to answer that question can tell us about creativity within a religious tradition.

Jul 12 •

Akiva Weisinger

Kuzari Class 3: The Divine Whatchamacallit

With Some Digressions About The Nabatean Agriculture

Jul 10 •

Akiva Weisinger

57:47

Kuzari Class Two: The Khazar King Has a Dream And Consults Some Dudes

Philosophy vs Sense Data, Particularism vs Universalism, Science vs. Art, Rambam vs. Yehuda HaLevi

Jul 3 •

Akiva Weisinger

1:07:58

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