Source-rich Jewish learning for daily holiness.
Finding Holiness turns traditional Jewish study into fast-moving, source-heavy audio classes. Its episodes move from Hebrew text and rabbinic commentary to practical questions about calendars, tefillin, korbanot, optimism, revelation, and public events.
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Finding Holiness is a Jewish learning podcast with the texture of a live class. It is direct, fast, and deeply source-driven. The episodes move between Torah portions, mitzvot, halakhic questions, faith, philosophy, and current events without treating those subjects as separate worlds. A class on divine revelation asks what makes Jewish faith distinct, then grounds the answer in Sinai, Yetziyat Mitzrayim, Moshe Rabbeinu, and The Kuzari. A mitzvot episode slows down over korbanot, explaining how kohanim eating from a hatat or asham relates to atonement. The show is comfortable with Hebrew and Aramaic phrasing, but it usually translates and circles back so the argument can keep moving. That gives the listening experience a strong classroom rhythm. Questions are posed quickly. Sources arrive in layers. Practical examples keep the learning from floating away. A discussion of the secular calendar begins with a familiar social question, then moves into Chodesh Nisan, Ramban, Jewish time, and the meaning of counting months. A Parashat Bo class on tefillin starts with the physical mitzvah and grows into a meditation on attention, freedom, bodily discipline, and living as a bearer of Torah. The halakha material can be technical, especially when it touches Christian symbols, Christmas music, avodah zarah, and interfaith boundaries. The philosophical series on Guide for the Perplexed brings in Rambam while retaining the feel of a community class, complete with names from the room and occasional detours into Shabbat, Elul, Israel, antisemitism, and even the Blue Jays. The show also responds to public tragedy, including a grave reflection on the killing of Charlie Kirk. Its devotional tone is warm rather than soft. It expects religious commitments to matter in ordinary choices. It treats mitzvot as practices that form attention, character, and courage. Finding Holiness is best for listeners who want Jewish tradition taught with conviction, textual density, and a living sense of moral consequence.
Made for: For listeners who want traditional Jewish Torah and halakha classes with Hebrew sources, practical application, and a warm but serious religious tone. It especially suits people comfortable with class-style teaching and sustained textual argument.
What sets it apart: Finding Holiness stands apart through its live-class immediacy: long source chains, practical questions, brief room interaction, and a strong movement from ancient text to present-tense religious life. It is less interview show than ongoing study hall.
The Finding Holiness podcast, hosted by Rabbi David Kadoch, offers listeners profound insights into Jewish thought and practice, connecting the spiritual with everyday life. Rabbi Kadoch delves into Torah teachings, Jewish traditions, and contemporary issues, exploring how to find sanctity and meaning in every aspect of life. Through engaging discussions and reflections, the podcast inspires a deeper connection to Jewish faith and values, guiding listeners on their journey to infuse holiness into their daily lives.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Finding Holiness connects close Torah teaching to the habits, obligations and attention through which Jewish practice takes daily form.
Rabbi David Kadoch builds Finding Holiness as a teaching room, with Torah passages, rabbinic commentary and practical observance kept in active conversation.
A 160-kilogram grape cluster becomes your check on how quickly you call blessings burdens.
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A layered tefillin teaching that frames the mitzvah as attention, holiness, and renewed freedom.
This teaching treats tefillin as more than a ritual object. It connects the mitzvah to attention, alignment, and freedom, then keeps widening the frame through chinuch, presence, and what it means to bind oneself to holiness.
A compact parasha class about unity, shared responsibility, and equal standing.
Parashat Nitzavim is framed as a compact parasha with a clear point: everyone stands together, from the elders and officers to the wood hewers and water drawers, and that shared standing carries shared responsibility.
A study of Bikurim as a discipline of seeing blessing where burden first appears.
This review frames the class as a thoughtful reading of Bikurim, where the first sight of a grape, fig, or pomegranate becomes more than an agricultural moment. It becomes a test of vision: whether the eye meets new growth with faith, suspicion, or gratitude.
A searching Jewish study of the godly soul, prehistoric humanity, and the pressure around reading divine images literally.
Rambam opens a hard question about what makes a human being part of the image of Hashem when knowledge and a godly soul are treated as the defining signs.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
The host discusses the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, a pro-Israel Christian activist known for his moral debates on university campuses.
Rabbi David Kadoch explores Proverbs 15:1 on how a gentle answer turns away anger, contrasting it with harsh words that inflame conflict.
This episode explores Parashat Nitzavim, focusing on the covenant of mutual responsibility among all Jewish people and the question of how everyone can be equally accountable.
Rabbi David Kadoch and his co-hosts explore chapter 7 of Maimonides' 'Guide for the Perplexed,' focusing on the Hebrew word 'yalad' (to bear).
This episode explores how Jewish faith is uniquely based on divine revelation rather than human imagination, using examples like the Exodus and Sinai revelation to illustrate this distinction.
This episode explains Mitzvah 102, which commands priests to eat portions of sin and guilt offerings as part of the atonement process for those who brought the sacrifices.
This episode explores the concept of Jewish optimism as a deep belief in improving reality through faith and perseverance, illustrated through biblical figures like Abraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, and Yosef.
Finding Holiness examines Jewish law on Christian symbols, religious books, idolatrous music, Christmas carols, and praising non-Jews.
Finding Holiness examines whether Jewish law permits using the secular calendar, including January, February, and dates such as January 8, 2026.
Parashat Bo closes with tefillin, and this class treats that ending as the thread running through the whole parashah.
The class opens with Parashat Ki Tavo and a prayer for the safety and success of the IDF and the return of people held in captivity.
This episode explores whether synthetic or mesh materials are valid for tzitzit, examining traditional wool and linen requirements and modern Judaica store options.
This episode begins with a tribute to Charlie Kirk, a pro-Israel Christian activist who was recently assassinated at a university in Utah while on his mission to engage with students on campuses.
The hosts discuss Jewish holidays like Shabbat and Slichot, share personal updates, and introduce a study session on Chapter 18 of Moran Nebuchadim with the Rambam.
Parashat Nitzavim is presented as a short parasha with a very large message.