Judaism From Within
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Rav Hirsch’s insights in to Judaism, on the weekly parsha and other Torah based subjects. Short, inspiring and bound to add a depth to your everyday life.
Episodes
- Judaism Is Not a Religion: Why It Cannot Be Reduced to Belief or Doctrine Rav Hirsch on Shavot ( Sivan Collective Writings I)
The episode 'Judaism Is Not a Religion: Why It Cannot Be Reduced to Belief or Doctrine' from the podcast Judaism From Within delves into Rav Hirsch's perspective on Shavuot, arguing that Judaism is more than just a system of belief or doct…
- Don’t Dilute Sinai - Holding Torah in a modern world Rav Hirsch on Shavot ( Sivan Collective Writings IV)
This episode of Judaism From Within explores the concept of holding Torah in the modern world, focusing on Rav Hirsch's teachings regarding Shavuot, as presented in the Sivan Collective Writings IV.
- *Pirkei Avot פרק ג through Samson Raphael Hirsch
This episode discusses Pirkei Avot Chapter 3, examining Samson Raphael Hirsch's perspective on the philosophy of the table, mortality, meaning, and the concept of burdens.
- Pirkei Avot פרק ב through Samson Raphael Hirsch
This episode examines Pirkei Avot Chapter 2, utilizing Samson Raphael Hirsch's perspective to discuss Torah as a way of life, a worldly vision of reward, and themes of books and poverty.
- Pirkei Avot פרק א with Samson Raphael Hirsch
This episode delves into Pirkei Avot Chapter 1, incorporating the interpretations of Samson Raphael Hirsch. Key themes discussed include the divine origin of the text, the pitfalls of moral posturing, the importance of the home and marriag…
- 4 Cups & The Relevance of Freedom To Life Today - Rav Hirsch on Freedom ( Collective Writings IV)
4 Cups & The Relevance of Freedom To Life Today - Rav Hirsch on Freedom ( Collective Writings IV)
- From Wonder To Wisdom & Dealing With a Cynical Child - Rav Hirsch on חנוך ( Collective Writings III)
From Wonder To Wisdom & Dealing With a Cynical Child - Rav Hirsch on חנוך ( Collective Writings III)
- The Tyranny of Predictability: The Shepherd and the God Who Breaks the System ( Collective Writings II)
The Tyranny of Predictability: The Shepherd and the God Who Breaks the System ( Collective Writings II) Samson Raphael Hirsch On pesach
- The Cruelest Month and Its Answer: How Pesach Reframes Time, Space, Self, and Suffering (Nissan I Collective Witings)
The Cruelest Month and Its Answer: How Pesach Reframes Time, Space, Self, and Suffering (Nissan I Rav Hirsch Collective Witings)
- The Magna Carta of Pesach: How Slaves Became Individuals (Collective Writings VI)
The Magna Carta of Pesach: How Slaves Became Individuals (Collective Writings VI)
- Rav Hirsch on Purim: Meaning in Hindsight — and the Courage and Sacrifice of Our Soldiers
Rav Hirsch on Purim: Meaning in Hindsight — and the Courage and Sacrifice of Our Soldiers
- Rav Hirsch Mishpatim - How They Treat the Waiter On a Date: The Moral Baseline That Reveals Who You Really Are
Rav Hirsch Mishpatim - How They Treat the Waiter On a Date: The Moral Baseline That Reveals Who You Really Are
- Rav Hirsch on mission: Nihilism in a Talis & The Dangers of False Solutions
Rav Samson raphael Hirsch on principles that stand against meaning
- Mitzvah #84 Lost Articles & Testimony - The Morality of Attention
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch on Attention Mitzvah #84 Lost Articles & Testimony - The Morality of Attention
- Mitzvah #83 - Chinuch Part 2 - Raising Them Right: A Spiritual Guide to Parenting Every Age T
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch on Chinuch Mitzvah #83 - Chinuch Part 2 - Raising Them Right: A Spiritual Guide to Parenting Every Age
- Mitzvah #83 - Chinuch’s Triple Responsibility: Physical, Emotional & Practical & How We Can Betray It
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch on Chinuch The Triple Responsibility: Physical, Emotional & Practical & How We Can Betray It
- When Hell Opens Up Beneath You - Rav Hirsch On Toldos
When Hell Opens Up Beneath You - Rav Hirsch On Toldos
- Mitzvah #82 - Yibbum & Chalitzah (Levirate Marriage) Love Enough to Let Go
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch's on Divorce Levirate Marriage Love Enough to Let Go
- Justification of the Aesthetic - Rav Hirsch On Bereishit and Noach
In this short episode of Hirsch on the Weekly Parasha , we explore Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch’s profound vision of aesthetics. Why did God create a world of beauty? Is the pursuit of the beautiful a spiritual distraction or a path to the di…
- Mitzvah #81 Divorce - Freedom Within Form: The Moral Architecture of Divorce
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch's on Divorce
- Mitzvah #80 - Marriage with a Mission - Shared Purpose Leads To Unity
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch's on marriage
- Mitzvah #79 - The Moral Frame Of The Home - How to Do It Right
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch's vision of Setting Up a Home We explore the timeless call to raise families, sustain the Jewish people, and secure the moral mission to humanity rooted in the practical wisdom of financial stability and the spiri…
- Mitzvah #78 - Repentance - Sin as a Feature & The Inner Confrontation of Teshuvah
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch vision of Teshuvah What if repentance isn’t about apologising to God but confronting yourself? In this episode, we explore Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch’s vision of Teshuvah as radical self-honesty: confession not as…
- Horeb – Mitzvah #78 - Rabbinic Authority - Structure Over Charisma
Rav Hirsch, Horeb , Mitzvah 78 – Rabbinic Authority As we explore in this episode, Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch understood ancient legal authority not as personal influence, but as the outgrowth of a divinely mandated structure a system roote…
- Horeb – Mitzvah #77 - Intermarriage - Why Judaism Isn’t Racist, and What Makes a Marriage Sacred
Horeb – Mitzvah #77 - Intermarriage - Why Judaism Isn’t Racist, and What Makes a Marriage Sacred In this episode, we tackle a common misconception: that Judaism's opposition to intermarriage is rooted in ethnic exclusivity. Drawing from th…
- Horeb – Mitzvah #76: Your Moral Environment - Snared by Influence (and what is חֵרֶם)
Horeb – Mitzvah #76: Your Moral Environment - Snared by Influence (and what is חֵרֶם)
- Mitzvah #75 – תלמוד תורה - Learning as Calling (Rav Hirsch Horeb )
Mitzvah #75 – תלמוד תורה Learning as Calling in Rav Hirsch's Horeb Exploring Rav Hirsch’s vision of study as transformation and mission.
- Mitzvah #74 – מפני שיבה תקום Age, Wisdom & Virtue: AI and the Illusion of Insight
Mitzvah #74 – מפני שיבה תקום Age, Wisdom & Virtue: AI and the Illusion of Insight How do we honor the ripened wisdom of age in an age of instant answers? This episode explores the mitzvah of “מפני שיבה תקום” through the lens of Rav Hirsch…
- Rav Hirsch Mitzvah #28 Pesach - Haggadah Imbue The Spirit & Flood Their Minds (Archives)
Rav Hirsch Mitzvah #28 Pesach - Haggadah Imbue The Spirit & Flood Their Minds
- Mitzvah #73 - כבוד אב ואם - Honor Thy Father and Mother: A Bridge to Transcendence
Mitzvah #73 - כבוד אב ואם - Honor Thy Father and Mother: A Bridge to Transcendence In Gratitude to My Own Parents, Who Showed Me the Path Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch on the rational of Jewish law
- Mitzvah #72 - Mitzvah as Love: The Jewish Religious Consciousness in Action
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch Mitzvah as Love: The Jewish Religious Consciousness in Action Mitzvah is more than obligation—it is love made real. In this episode, we explore how Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch sees mitzvah as the embodied expression…
- Mitzvah #71 - Following The Many - The Heuristics of Experience, Law and Faith
Mitzvah #71 - Following The Many - The Heuristics of Experience, Law and Faith
- Parshah Mishpatim - Why Start With Slavery? (His Copernican revolution) archives
in this weeks discussion, we offer a powerful tool in ones approach the torah and a general Jewish world view by shifting your approach of the Oral Law (his Copernican revolution. At the same time, we bring out a profound moral principle f…
- Parshah Yisro - Yisro - A Unified Path Of the 10 "Archives"
In this week's discussion, we take the decalogue the 10 commandments something that's often looked at as separate ideas, But we show with the lens of repairs how it represents, symbolises a unified inseparable whole. Rav Hirsch On The Week…
- Beshalach - How does Trust Makes Sense? "Archives"
this week disentangle the concept of trust in God, what do we mean? we also show how the two aspects of the symbol of Shabbos play out this priciple.
- Mitzvah #70 - Speech, Oaths & Vowels - The Quintessential Chuk
Rav Hirsch’s insight into vowels reveals a profound truth about the power of speech—the very tool that can create, uplift,can destroy. In this episode, we explore how language embodies both the highest potential for good and the gravest da…
- Bo - Unexpected depth of the Oral law "Archives"
this week's parsha Bo, in this week's discussion we take a look at the oral law, something that is often considered a little bit arbitrary and we show how these minor details not only validate the meaning of Biblical symbolism and its mean…
- Rav Hirsch On Parasha Vyarah - A Biblical Champion & the Philosophy of Prayer "Archives"
Why is it so vital the Torah calls to our attention Moses and he very humanness? and how does this give us beautiful parallel to the Prayer Book (Siddur) Rav Hirsch On The Weekly Parasha
- Mitzvah #69 - צניעות Modesty: The Master & Its Emissary
In this episode, we explore Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch's profound insights on modesty, framed through the metaphor of the soul as the master and the body as the emissary. Drawing inspiration from Iain McGilchrist's concept, we delve into ho…
- Shemot - Forgotten Humanism Of the Modern World
Shemot - Forgotten Humanism Of the Modern World We generally speaking look at culture as progressing forward but at times this is not the case two messages from this weeks Parasha give lights to this principle, From the lens of Rav Samson…
- Mitzvah #68 - מאכלים אסורים Part 3 - Eating with Intent
Mitzvah #68 - מאכלים אסורים Part 3 - Eating with Intent The Symbolic Depth of Kashrut Why does the Torah allow us to eat some animals but not others? Based on Rav Hirsch’s teachings, this episode looks at how Kashrut shapes our mindset, en…
- Chanukah - Beware The Simplifies
Chanukah what's the central conflict, how should we look at the cultural challenge of the Greeks? All BAD? Rav Shimshon Raphael Hirsch gives us a nuanced approach. That does justice both to the challenge back then, as well as to our abilit…
- Vayeshev - jealousy leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate.. to Fear "From Archives"
In this weeks Parasha we get a dark side of a family but even there we can see the rooted positive message to us to day Rav Hirsch On The Weekly Parasha
- Vayishlach - The nerve of history "From Archives"
This week's discussion we attempt to delve into one of the most unusual symbols in the Torah at the same time we get a unique opportunity to parallel a symbol embedded in both narrative and law in the bible Rav Hirsch On The Weekly Parasha
- Vayeitzei - 3 Callings of the ladder "From the Archives"
Parasha Vayeitzei - 3 empowering callings of the ladder The Torah/Bible this week gives us 3 powerful truths from the dream of the ladder Rav Hirsch On The Weekly Parasha
- Toldot - Off Whose Derech? a Corruption of the Jewish task
How the approach of parents and educators to fit each child into a specific framework of what they think Judaism is, can not only destroy the child but creates a perversion of the message that Judaism is trying to teach. Rav Hirsch On The…
- Chayei Sarah - Why no after Life? "From the Archives"
Torah portion Chayei Sarah - Why no after Life? Throughout the bible, we see no mention of the next world, why? for the Jews one of the most central books, and no mention of the afterlife, why? Rav Hirsch On The Weekly Parasha
- Mitzvah #68 - מאכלים אסורים Part 2 - Shechita Intentional Action and Reflection
Mitzvah #68 - Shechita Intentional Action and Reflection Explore Rav Hirsch's teachings on shechita , the Jewish method of slaughter, as a practice that demands intentionality and reflection. By confronting the act of taking life, shechita…
- Vayera - Akedah, Abraham's failure? "From the Archives"
Vayera - Akedah, Abraham's failure? "From the Archives" This week's Rav Hirsch covers the Binding of Isaac, a key event in Jewish history and theology. We'll address its challenging questions and build an approach to better understand the…
- Mitzvah #68 - מאכלים אסורים -The Symbolic and Spiritual Meaning of Forbidden Food - Part 1
Join us as we delve into Rav Hirsch's profound insights on ma'akhalei asurim —forbidden foods in Judaism, uncovering layers of meaning that extend beyond the table. In this episode, we also offer a recap of Rav Hirsch's unique halachic and…