Judaism Podcasts

Daf Yomi, the practice of learning Talmud each day, drives a whole shelf of shows. Study Talmud with Rabbi Zajac moves at teaching speed. In Talmud: Chullin 8, a knife heated white-hot raises the question of whether a ritual slaughter is valid. The answer turns on the point that the blade's sharpness acts before its heat.

Talking Talmud is gentler about difficulty. In Hullin 82: Who's Tracking the Animals and Their Offspring?, the ban on slaughtering an animal and its offspring on the same day still applies after one of them is sold. The host admits the practical puzzle: "How he's going to find out about it, I don't know, right?" That candour makes an ancient legal world feel approachable without pretending it is close.

Thinking Talmudist Podcast · Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe pulls lessons from single passages. In Ep. 21 - When I Left Egypt [Pesachim 116a], Rabbi Wolbe says one of the hardest parts of the Seder is retelling the Exodus as if you were there, and describes sages who walked around the table with sacks of potatoes over their shoulders.

For law in codified form, Rambam - 3 Chapters a Day reads Maimonides' Mishneh Torah clause by clause. 9th Perek: Laws of Kidush Hachodesh works through the length of the solar year and nineteen-year cycles. Near the end, checking the arithmetic is left "as an exercise to the listener." R Yakov Frand on the Parsha also carries Talmud classes. In Sanhedrin 2B 1.04 (5-18-25), the rabbis relax the Torah's requirement to cross-examine witnesses so that lenders will keep lending. These rooms suit people already at home in the vocabulary. The Torah & Talmud Study page and the Halacha & Jewish Law page go further.

The Torah is read in a yearly cycle of weekly portions, and shows divide sharply over how to take one. Jonathan Livi's The Parasha Podcast sounds like a class in progress, with participants cutting in. In Shemini 3 - (Year 1) - 5781, the deaths of Aaron's sons Nadav and Abihu arrive as "a surprising deviation from the script." Near the end, the class concedes it will have to analyse more on Sunday.

Parsha Review Podcast · Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe is tidier and summary-minded. 3.3 Parshas Shemini Review: Priesthood walks through the kosher laws and stops for a joke about finding gefilte fish in the ocean: "Just look for a fish with a carrot."

Deeper Look At The Parsha works more like a spoken essay. THE STORY WE CHOOSE TO TELL describes a field near Krakow where a Jewish cemetery was destroyed to build Plaszow. It goes on to frame the season this way: "Tisha B'Av commemorates catastrophe. Devarim teaches us how to survive catastrophe." The Jewish Holidays & Observance page gathers more of this seasonal material.

Central Synagogue Podcast is the audio archive of a Manhattan congregation. Its feed includes a run of Yom Kippur 5787 sermons, among them SERMON: Rabbi Angela Buchdahl | "Claiming Zionism" | Yom Kippur 5787. The best way in is the Jewish Bookshelf series. These are live evenings hosted by rabbinic intern Rebecca Thau, in which a scholar explains one classic text and takes questions.

Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, gets advanced treatment on מקדש מלך | השער לפנימיות התורה. In סוד סדר עליית הבירורים עד בינה דא''ק | שער הברודים פרק א חלק 2 | אוצרות חיים למתקדמים, a participant protests that pieces of the account are missing. The answer is to read further. This is study for students, not an introduction.

Mussar, the discipline of refining character, takes several forms. Toras Avigdor's Shemini 5786 - Anger and Self Control compares anger to dynamite: useful, but to be kept locked away. Near the end it sets a concrete task for the week. Rabbi Yoni Fischer Shiurim - Fischer’s Yeshiva is looser and live. In Don’t Bother Bringing The Furniture!! - [Bein Hazmanim Shiur], he tells a story and says, "Sorry that I'm not being clear. I'll have to look it up."

In Hebrew, הרב אילן גוזל - הערוץ הרשמי builds מי שמוותר מרוויח תמיד ובגדול | יום הזיכרון לחללי צה׳׳ל הי׳׳ד - תשפ׳׳ו around giving way. It includes a story of Rabbi Shach agreeing with his wife to take turns yielding, then never letting her have her turn. The lecture presents yielding as a source of blessing.

Empowered Jewish Living with Rabbi Shlomo Buxbaum brings therapy and Torah into one room. In R' Yakov Danishevsky: Healing the Inner Child Through Themes of the Haggadah and the Seder, a therapist guest finds a lesson about patience in a dry legal paragraph of the Haggadah. The Spirituality guide covers contemplative listening beyond this tradition.

Chutzpod! has Rabbi Shira Stutman and journalist Hanna Rosin take on listener dilemmas, and its publisher addresses people of all faiths or none. Ol' Dirty Money asks whether institutions may keep donations from people tied to Jeffrey Epstein. It weighs a Talmudic case about a stolen beam built into a house, then separates financial theft from moral depravity. In Bubbemeises, the hosts sort superstition from law and conclude that law wins because saving a life comes first. Then they call a mother for her mezuzah story.

Rise & Shine with Adrienne Gold Davis offers morning-sized lessons. How to Build a Peaceful Home: The Jewish Practice of Shalom Bayit includes a guest describing how she apologises to her children, and recalls a teaching that anger drives out wisdom first.

18Forty Podcast takes its time. David & Sydney Magerman: When a Child Makes Aliyah [Divergence VI 3/4] runs 84 minutes. A daughter explains deciding during her seminary year, asking herself "why wait?" Participants argue for Israel as the Jewish future, and the episode presents that as their view.

Torah Smash! The Podcast for Nerdy Jews pairs Jewish text with nerd culture. In Episode 105 - Pokemon: Blue and White, someone asks "what if the starting choices were God, Torah and Israel?" One host picks God. Episode 102 - SMASHBALLS: The Podcast reads Esther as a comically plotted story, from a king who leaves the villain alone with the queen to a genocide date chosen by lot.