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A Collective Apology from Your Professors: CHATGPT can be your Friend!

A Collective Apology from Your Professors: CHATGPT can be your Friend!

Gimme Shelter - David's Psalm 91

Gimme Shelter - David's Psalm 91

Finding Your Story in the Infinite Book

Finding Your Story in the Infinite Book

Blessed is the One Who Sees You: Ruth and the Triumph of the Feminine

Blessed is the One Who Sees You: Ruth and the Triumph of the Feminine

Two Professors Go to The Symphony - me and Daniel Feldman

Two Professors Go to The Symphony - me and Daniel Feldman

Hamlet and the Holocaust

Hamlet and the Holocaust

Coming Attraction! Hamlet and the Holocaust - On Holocaust Remembrance Day

Coming Attraction! Hamlet and the Holocaust - On Holocaust Remembrance Day

Writing on the Wall Podcast Beta

Writing on the Wall Podcast Beta

Columbia Under Attack - First the Jews, then the Humanities, then the University

Columbia Under Attack - First the Jews, then the Humanities, then the University

Passover's Foundation of Faith - Relationship

Passover's Foundation of Faith - Relationship

The Impostors - Edward Said and Woke Antisemitism

The Impostors - Edward Said and Woke Antisemitism

A Completely Different Order of Magnitude: The Iran Attack

A Completely Different Order of Magnitude: The Iran Attack

Writing on the Wall

Writing on the Wall

What's Up with Writing on the Wall?

What's Up with Writing on the Wall?

We Want New Leaders, We Must Unite First - Introducing Writing on the Wall

We Want New Leaders, We Must Unite First - Introducing Writing on the Wall

The Imperfect Perfection of the Human

The Imperfect Perfection of the Human

End of Ceasefire 101

End of Ceasefire 101

My Favorite Matriarch: Rebecca, the Master Mind

My Favorite Matriarch: Rebecca, the Master Mind

Keeping the Jewish Book Open - The Future Depends on It

Keeping the Jewish Book Open - The Future Depends on It

Why Secular Humanists Get it All Wrong

Why Secular Humanists Get it All Wrong

Israel at War: For Us, and for the Civilized World

Israel at War: For Us, and for the Civilized World

Not in a Vacuum: The Arab Israeli Conflict in 4 minutes

Not in a Vacuum: The Arab Israeli Conflict in 4 minutes

Progressive Jewish Leftists: Come Back Home - We Need You!

Progressive Jewish Leftists: Come Back Home - We Need You!

The Rabbis and Genesis: What is Man?

The Rabbis and Genesis: What is Man?

The Problem with Truth

The Problem with Truth

Remembered Future: Time and Repentance on Rosh Hashanna

Remembered Future: Time and Repentance on Rosh Hashanna

Israel Today: 9 AV

Israel Today: 9 AV

The Talmud and the Discovery of the Sacred

The Talmud and the Discovery of the Sacred

Getting Over It

Getting Over It

After Soloveitchik: Beyond Torah u'Madda

After Soloveitchik: Beyond Torah u'Madda

Magic of the Threshing Floor: Masculine Sexuality and Feminine Community in the Book of Ruth

Magic of the Threshing Floor: Masculine Sexuality and Feminine Community in the Book of Ruth

Beyond (mere) Nationalism: Israeli Independence Day

Beyond (mere) Nationalism: Israeli Independence Day

The Song of Songs - A Love Song so Divine

The Song of Songs - A Love Song so Divine

Passover and Poetry

Passover and Poetry

Putting Esther Back in the Purim Story - The Power of the Feminine

Putting Esther Back in the Purim Story - The Power of the Feminine

The First Humanists - The Rabbis

The First Humanists - The Rabbis

Hanukah, Intersectionality, and Antisemitism

Hanukah, Intersectionality, and Antisemitism

'The Horror, the Horror' - the End of Troy

'The Horror, the Horror' - the End of Troy

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Humanism as Translation

Humanism as Translation

Our Israeli Humanities Classroom

Our Israeli Humanities Classroom

Renaissance Self-Fashioning

Renaissance Self-Fashioning

Cognitive Dissonance in Troy

Cognitive Dissonance in Troy

Division and Unity - Ben Zoma Leaves the World - Midrash Rabba

Division and Unity - Ben Zoma Leaves the World - Midrash Rabba

Out of the Depths: Simchat Beit HaShoeva

Out of the Depths: Simchat Beit HaShoeva

One Minute Guide to Repentance

One Minute Guide to Repentance

Paradise Lost and Psalmist

Paradise Lost and Psalmist

On Pedagogy and Psalms

On Pedagogy and Psalms

Against Literalism

Against Literalism

Jewish Leadership: Courage and Faith

Jewish Leadership: Courage and Faith

Telling the Story is What Matters: How to Have Fun at Your Seder

Telling the Story is What Matters: How to Have Fun at Your Seder

Responsibility to the Sacred

Responsibility to the Sacred

Purim like Yom Kippur - Psalm 51 and Rewriting the Past

Purim like Yom Kippur - Psalm 51 and Rewriting the Past

The Fate of Reading: Israel, the Temple, and the Sacred Language of Psalms

The Fate of Reading: Israel, the Temple, and the Sacred Language of Psalms

Psalm 45 - Coronation

Psalm 45 - Coronation

Reading the Book; Writing the Self

Reading the Book; Writing the Self

David Disintegrating - in this episode, David hits rock bottom

David Disintegrating - in this episode, David hits rock bottom

Speech and Creation - Psalm 33

Speech and Creation - Psalm 33

Psalm 25: Not Solving the Free Will Problem

Psalm 25: Not Solving the Free Will Problem

Psalm 22: 'I am a worm'

Psalm 22: 'I am a worm'

Psalm 16: The Mind/Body Problem

Psalm 16: The Mind/Body Problem

Psalm 8: Language and Creation

Psalm 8: Language and Creation

Psalm 13 - Faith and Anxiety

Psalm 13 - Faith and Anxiety

Poetry and Identity in the Psalms of David

Poetry and Identity in the Psalms of David

Dante and the Blessing of Readings

Dante and the Blessing of Readings

Preaching the Augustinian doctrines of reading and selfhood

Preaching the Augustinian doctrines of reading and selfhood

Nothing New Under the Sun: The Greeks, Hanukah, and BDS

Nothing New Under the Sun: The Greeks, Hanukah, and BDS

Laughing at Auschwitz: Rabbi Akiva Keeps the Book Alive

Laughing at Auschwitz: Rabbi Akiva Keeps the Book Alive

Greeks, Rabbis, and the Poet: Why Bad Things Happen to Good People

Greeks, Rabbis, and the Poet: Why Bad Things Happen to Good People

Heroism in the Classroom

Heroism in the Classroom

Shavuot - Ruth and the Promise of a Future

Shavuot - Ruth and the Promise of a Future

The Responsibility of Civility

The Responsibility of Civility

Repeating and Remembering: Freud and the Creative Non-Fiction Workshop

Repeating and Remembering: Freud and the Creative Non-Fiction Workshop

Skeptics Guide to the Haggadah

Skeptics Guide to the Haggadah

Reading Midrash: Purim 4 - Making Souls Through Teaching

Reading Midrash: Purim 4 - Making Souls Through Teaching

Achashverosh: Liberty and Luxury in Shushan

Achashverosh: Liberty and Luxury in Shushan

Reading Midrash: Purim 2 - Sex Traffickers in Shushan

Reading Midrash: Purim 2 - Sex Traffickers in Shushan

Reading Midrash - Purim 1

Reading Midrash - Purim 1

Augustine and the Life of Reading

Augustine and the Life of Reading

Augustine's Confessions and the Invention of the Self

Augustine's Confessions and the Invention of the Self

Pharisees in the Book of Mark

Pharisees in the Book of Mark

Aeneas's Shield - The Triumph of the Masculine

Aeneas's Shield - The Triumph of the Masculine

The Reverend Giles Fraser: Bringing Jews and Christians Together in Ramat Gan

The Reverend Giles Fraser: Bringing Jews and Christians Together in Ramat Gan

Night at the Museum

Night at the Museum

Milton and the 17th Century

Milton and the 17th Century

Mind-Body Continuum in the Poetry of John Donne

Mind-Body Continuum in the Poetry of John Donne

Why Asking 'is Medea a feminist play?' is the absolute wrong question

Why Asking 'is Medea a feminist play?' is the absolute wrong question

The Other One - The Encounter with Metatron

The Other One - The Encounter with Metatron

Bacon Against the Imagination

Bacon Against the Imagination

As You Like It - the Fool and the Shepherd

As You Like It - the Fool and the Shepherd

Aeschylus - Oresteia

Aeschylus - Oresteia

'The Other' - Metaphysics, Interpretation, Heresy

'The Other' - Metaphysics, Interpretation, Heresy

Aeschylus Oresteia - 'I cannot see the end' - Agamemnon

Aeschylus Oresteia - 'I cannot see the end' - Agamemnon

Why Study the Renaissance?

Why Study the Renaissance?

How To Take Notes in a Humanities Classroom

How To Take Notes in a Humanities Classroom

Abraham and Astrology

Abraham and Astrology

Reading Midrash - 2

Reading Midrash - 2

Renaissance Cosmic Order and Hierarchy - Shakespeare, Thomas Hooker, and Ben Jonson

Renaissance Cosmic Order and Hierarchy - Shakespeare, Thomas Hooker, and Ben Jonson

Introduction to Midrash - Week 1

Introduction to Midrash - Week 1

The Phenomenology of Sukkot - or What's Up with the Booths?

The Phenomenology of Sukkot - or What's Up with the Booths?

Repentance, Writing, and Time

Repentance, Writing, and Time

Preparing for Rosh Hashana: Shofar, Memory, Kingship

Preparing for Rosh Hashana: Shofar, Memory, Kingship

Part II: Rosh Hashana - Remembrance, Kingship, Shofar

Part II: Rosh Hashana - Remembrance, Kingship, Shofar

Truth, Time, Kingship on Rosh Hashana

Truth, Time, Kingship on Rosh Hashana

Poetic Time and Scientific Space

Poetic Time and Scientific Space

Donne and the Sacred

Donne and the Sacred

Metaphor and Theology - does poetry bring God into the world?

Metaphor and Theology - does poetry bring God into the world?

Rabbi Akiva's Laughter

Rabbi Akiva's Laughter

Tradition as Futurity

Tradition as Futurity

Reading After the Fall: Interpretation in Time

Reading After the Fall: Interpretation in Time

Mysterious Terms - Re-Reading Miltonic Theodicy

Mysterious Terms - Re-Reading Miltonic Theodicy

Reading and Misreading: Literalism and Theodicy in Paradise Lost

Reading and Misreading: Literalism and Theodicy in Paradise Lost

Sexual Politics in Eden - Paradise Lost, Book 9

Sexual Politics in Eden - Paradise Lost, Book 9

Poetic Inspiration: Milton's Invocations to Books 7 and 9 of Paradise Lost

Poetic Inspiration: Milton's Invocations to Books 7 and 9 of Paradise Lost

Wonder, Delight, Love, Adoration, Beauty, Loss - Book 8 of Paradise Lost

Wonder, Delight, Love, Adoration, Beauty, Loss - Book 8 of Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost and Paradigm Shifts

Paradise Lost and Paradigm Shifts

How to Go to a Museum; How to See a Painting

How to Go to a Museum; How to See a Painting

Paradise Lost: Book 5 - Why Angels Eat in Milton's Epic

Paradise Lost: Book 5 - Why Angels Eat in Milton's Epic

What an Antisemitic (Nazi) Zoom Bomb Looks Like

What an Antisemitic (Nazi) Zoom Bomb Looks Like

Death of the Humanities

Death of the Humanities

The Death of Poetry and Death of Reading - Part 1: Donne, Descartes, Hobbes

The Death of Poetry and Death of Reading - Part 1: Donne, Descartes, Hobbes

Divorce, Marriage and Milton's Metaphysics - Between Spinoza and Hobbes

Divorce, Marriage and Milton's Metaphysics - Between Spinoza and Hobbes

Milton's Satan, Poetry, and Evil

Milton's Satan, Poetry, and Evil

Paradise Lost Book 3

Paradise Lost Book 3

Revelation of Catastrophe - Strange Fire and COVID19

Revelation of Catastrophe - Strange Fire and COVID19

Milton's Artistic Failure? Paradise Lost - Book 2

Milton's Artistic Failure? Paradise Lost - Book 2

Upon Completing Mann's Joseph and His Brothers

Upon Completing Mann's Joseph and His Brothers

Milton and Commonwealth; Israel and Milton

Milton and Commonwealth; Israel and Milton

For Israel Memorial Day - Tears and Laughter: Poetry and God and Evil

For Israel Memorial Day - Tears and Laughter: Poetry and God and Evil

Milton and Shakespeare: Tradition and Anxiety

Milton and Shakespeare: Tradition and Anxiety

Paradise Lost Book 1

Paradise Lost Book 1

Milton's Pilot: Representation in Milton's Paradise Lost

Milton's Pilot: Representation in Milton's Paradise Lost

Milton's Paradise Lost: An Introduction

Milton's Paradise Lost: An Introduction

Mary Astell: Truth, Fiction and the History of Wit

Mary Astell: Truth, Fiction and the History of Wit

Leadership, Freedom and Creativity in the Time of Corona

Leadership, Freedom and Creativity in the Time of Corona

Milton's Lycidas

Milton's Lycidas

Jerusalem Corona Diary - Why We Need Poetry Now More than Ever

Jerusalem Corona Diary - Why We Need Poetry Now More than Ever

A Difficult and Incomplete Freedom: Passover in the Time of Corona

A Difficult and Incomplete Freedom: Passover in the Time of Corona

Milton's Greatest Poem?: Milton's Lycidas, Introduction

Milton's Greatest Poem?: Milton's Lycidas, Introduction

Passover in the Time of Corona: 'All those who are in need, come and eat'

Passover in the Time of Corona: 'All those who are in need, come and eat'

Story-Telling in the Time of Corona: The Meaning of Passover

Story-Telling in the Time of Corona: The Meaning of Passover

Comus Highlights

Comus Highlights

The Pain of Facing Reality - and all of our mechanisms of denial - in the Time of Corona

The Pain of Facing Reality - and all of our mechanisms of denial - in the Time of Corona

Jerusalem Diary - Day 12: Religious Fanaticism and Social Criticism in the Time of Corona

Jerusalem Diary - Day 12: Religious Fanaticism and Social Criticism in the Time of Corona

Introduction to Milton's Comus

Introduction to Milton's Comus

God in a Time of Darkness: Internalizing, Reading, Interpreting - Teaching

God in a Time of Darkness: Internalizing, Reading, Interpreting - Teaching

God and Corona or Why I'm so Bored of Theodicy

God and Corona or Why I'm so Bored of Theodicy

Corona Diary Jerusalem - Day 9: Plea to Teachers - Respect the Crisis; Respect your Students

Corona Diary Jerusalem - Day 9: Plea to Teachers - Respect the Crisis; Respect your Students

Denial in the Age of Corona: Why We Can't See What's Right in Front of Us

Denial in the Age of Corona: Why We Can't See What's Right in Front of Us

Jerusalem Corona Diary Day 7: Sabbath Lockdown in the Time of Corona

Jerusalem Corona Diary Day 7: Sabbath Lockdown in the Time of Corona

The Power of Language in the Age of Corona

The Power of Language in the Age of Corona

Milton's 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso'

Milton's 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso'

Jerusalem Corona Diary: Day 5: On Faith and Free Will in the Age of Corona

Jerusalem Corona Diary: Day 5: On Faith and Free Will in the Age of Corona

Banishing of the Pagan Gods: Milton's Nativity Ode

Banishing of the Pagan Gods: Milton's Nativity Ode

Milton Seminar: Nativity Ode

Milton Seminar: Nativity Ode

Corona Diary Day 4

Corona Diary Day 4

Milton - Introduction: Reading and Time

Milton - Introduction: Reading and Time

Milton and Time

Milton and Time

Corona Diary: Jerusalem - Day 3

Corona Diary: Jerusalem - Day 3

Corona Day 2 - Literature in the Time of Corona

Corona Day 2 - Literature in the Time of Corona

Jerusalem: Corona Day 1

Jerusalem: Corona Day 1

John Donne, Valediction Forbidding Mourning

John Donne, Valediction Forbidding Mourning

Hanuka and Antisemitism in 4 minutes!

Hanuka and Antisemitism in 4 minutes!

Hanuka: Rendering the Everyday Sacred

Hanuka: Rendering the Everyday Sacred

Shakespeare, As You Like It, and the Magic of Art

Shakespeare, As You Like It, and the Magic of Art

Shakespeare's As You Like It - Lecture 2

Shakespeare's As You Like It - Lecture 2

Shakespeare's As You Like It - Lecture 1

Shakespeare's As You Like It - Lecture 1

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure