Judaism Unbound · Institute for the Next Jewish Future
Episode 492: The Torah in the Tarot - Stav Appel
·52 min·4 clips
Stav Appel found Hebrew letters and Judaic objects ingeniously concealed in tarot cards, suggesting a lost Jewish educational vessel.
As heard by us
A sharp, curious debate about tarot, Jewish history, and how interpretation gets made.
This episode lets Stav Appel make a lively case for a lost Jewish history of tarot, while Dan Liebenson and Lex Rothberg give him room to work through fortune-telling, Kabbalistic material, and the line between what is forbidden and what is sacred in Judaism.
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You want a Jewish conversation that starts with tarot and turns into a serious debate about divination, law, and spiritual practice.
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