2 Queers 4 Questions artwork

2 Queers 4 Questions

37 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago -

Podcast by 2 Queers 4 Questions

Judaism Religion & Spirituality
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Episodes

Vayikra, with Ezra

March 19, 2024 17:56 - 13 minutes - 22 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Vayikra by Ezra Furman. With The Blow, impossible love, Moses, God, Abraham, Agnes and transformation.

Pekudei, with Agnes

March 15, 2024 15:59 - 14 minutes - 26.2 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Pekudei by Agnes Borinsky. With GPT-3, Serah bat Asher, language, Simone Weil, and dwelling.

Vayakhel, with Ezra

March 07, 2024 23:30 - 12 minutes - 21.8 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Vayakhel by Ezra Furman. With jewelry, shame, Gertrude Stein, Gaza, Moses and sin.

Ki Tisa, with Agnes

March 07, 2024 01:14 - 11 minutes - 21.3 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Ki Tisa by Agnes Borinsky. <3

Tetzaveh, with Ezra

February 20, 2024 19:48 - 10 minutes - 17.9 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Tetzaveh by Ezra Furman. With names, siblings, Miriam, Aaron, Moses, garments and Dinah.

Trumah, with Agnes

February 16, 2024 17:45 - 14 minutes - 25 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Trumah by Agnes Borinsky. With Cecillia Gentili, God, Moses, the exile of speech, Song of Songs and Gaza.

Mishpatim, with Ezra

February 07, 2024 20:16 - 14 minutes - 26.8 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Mishpatim by Ezra Furman. With Mt. Sinai, Moses, depression, Rabbi Joey Rosenfeld, slavery, angels, Avgi Saketopoulou and trauma.

Yitro, with Agnes

February 02, 2024 19:48 - 9 minutes - 15.7 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Yitro by Agnes Borinsky. With Joe Brainard, memory, Shabbat and the Vilna Gaon.

Beshalach, with Ezra

January 25, 2024 11:00 - 11 minutes - 19.4 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Beshalach by Ezra Furman. Contains violent references concerning police murders. With Mario Woods, God, Pharaoh, water, wilderness, Shel Silverstein, Shabbat, Eric Garner and George Floyd.

Bo, with Agnes

January 23, 2024 13:40 - 10 minutes - 19.7 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Bo by Agnes Borinsky. Featuring darkness, break-ups, Lou Reed, Pharaoh, God, Stephen Levine and light.

VaEira, with Ezra

January 11, 2024 20:53 - 10 minutes - 18.2 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat VaEira by Ezra Furman. Featuring Moses, God, 6th grade sleepovers, transness, coming out, revolution and names.

Shmot, with Agnes

January 11, 2024 20:15 - 12 minutes - 23.9 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Shmot by Agnes Borinsky. Featuring silence, Carolee Schneeman, God, Moses, Pharaoh, elbows, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and colors.

Vayechi, with Ezra

December 26, 2023 17:47 - 12 minutes - 22.7 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Vayechi by Ezra Furman. Featuring diaspora, exile, Jacob, B'nai Yisrael and the Sfat Emet.

Vayigash, with Agnes

December 21, 2023 21:29 - 10 minutes - 18 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Vayigash by Agnes Borinsky. Featuring faith, friendship, Joseph, Egypt, Proverbs and the Song of Songs.

Mikeitz, with Ezra

December 13, 2023 12:00 - 12 minutes - 21.8 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Mikeitz by Ezra Furman. Featuring Joseph, his brothers, Menashe, Benjamin, queerness, assimilation, trauma and healing.

Repost - 2Q4Q: Chanukah (recorded 5782 aka 2021)

December 11, 2023 22:26 - 1 hour - 114 MB

A blast from the past. Recorded 2 years ago in 5782 (or 2021 for all you assimilationists) as part of our podcast's first iteration, 2 Queers 4 Questions (which, is that still what we're called? I dunno it's blurry and we don't care). We both recently listened and were struck by some of the stuff in here, questions and texts that go very deep to the meanings and possibilities of this holiday. So we wanted to share the conversation once again. Happy Chanukah, honey. Our questions are: 1. Wh...

Vayeshev, with Agnes

December 08, 2023 16:22 - 11 minutes - 20 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Vayeshev by Agnes Borinsky. Featuring Jacob, Tamar, Judah, Christina Sharpe, blood, love and recognition.

Vayishlach, with Ezra

November 30, 2023 15:04 - 11 minutes - 19.9 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Vayishlach by Ms. Ezra Furman. Featuring Jacob/Israel, Eisav, a mysterious man, Abraham, and enemies.

Vayetze, with Agnes

November 24, 2023 15:13 - 11 minutes - 20.6 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Vayetze by Agnes Borinsky. Featuring Jacob, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariyah, and angels.

Toldot, with Ezra

November 15, 2023 12:00 - 11 minutes - 21.2 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Toldot by Ezra Furman. Transness, queerness, disability, parenthood, siblinghood, the physical, the spiritual, family, the winding path.

Chayye Sarah, with Agnes

November 13, 2023 13:46 - 7 minutes - 13 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Chayye Sarah by Agnes Borinsky. Featuring Abraham, Eliezer, Rebecca, Isaac, ee cummings, Judith Butler and camels.

Parshat Vayera, with Ezra

November 01, 2023 14:05 - 7 minutes - 12.8 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Vayera by Ezra Furman. Content Warning: contains violent and disturbing imagery. Featuring Abraham, Isaac, Hagar, Ishmael, Sodom & Gomorrah.

Lech Lecha, with Agnes

October 30, 2023 17:29 - 8 minutes - 14.8 MB

A dvar Torah on parashat Lech Lecha by Agnes Borinsky.

Parshat Noach, with Ezra

October 19, 2023 13:31 - 7 minutes - 13.2 MB

Parshat Noach, with Ezra by 2 Queers 4 Questions

2Q5B Breishit

October 16, 2023 14:14 - 7 minutes - 14.1 MB

Parashat Breishit, by Agnes.

12. Tisha B'Av

August 05, 2022 14:59 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MB

It's time for Tisha B'Av, the Jewish day of mourning par excellence, the day that first of all commemorates the destruction of our temple in Jerusalem and then piles on every other tragedy in Jewish history. We're talking about how to mourn, how to heal, how to be broken and what comes next. In tribute to Tisha B'av's theme of a ruined structure, we've blown apart our usual terse style of inquiry and left our four questions as four piles of deconstructed rubble: 1. Are we actually sad what...

11. Shavuot

June 03, 2022 01:29 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MB

AT LAST! We've been counting the days, and now it's Shavuot. And it's our first-ever in-person episode. How appropriate for a long-awaited holiday commemorating an in-person encounter between God and the Jewish people. So let's get intimate. Let's talk about love, revelation, wheat. Our questions - a little oblique this time: 1. Do we want it? 2. Do I have to show up? 3. Who's invited? 4. Will I see you again?

10. The Omer

May 12, 2022 16:17 - 1 hour - 111 MB

The Omer, baby. Not a holiday, you say? Correct. But an unmissable aspect of the Jewish calendar, and maybe, as we discuss, the key to bringing out the "fuck you" that lies at the heart of having our own Jewish map of time. This is the in-between time, the time of growth, waiting, anticipating, grieving, counting. Our questions: 1. Are we going away from, or are we going towards? 2. Why is this counting personal? 3. Is Zionism a spiritual problem or a political one? 4. Is the Omer boring?

9. Pesach

May 11, 2022 19:11 - 1 hour - 57.9 MB

Pesach. Passover. It's kind of the big one in a way. One of the most iconic and most encompassing and also the origin of the format of this very podcast (four questions). And it celebrates the origin of our people and of our calendar and our autonomy... it was a daunting one and also we were really busy and we are super late. Sorry. But c'mon get off our backs. We hope it is illuminating! Our questions: 1. What does it mean to put a traumatic experience at the center of our collective narra...

8. Purim

March 28, 2022 19:31 - 1 hour - 49.9 MB

Our Purim episode stumbles in way past deadline, maybe a little hungover but in high spirits. This is a lighthearted holiday which holds many secrets... Our questions: 1. Who comes out of the closet on Purim? 2. Is exile always a bad thing? 3. Who has authority when God seems absent? 4. Why do we throw a wild party to commemorate such a terrifying event?

7. Chanukah

November 29, 2021 01:16 - 1 hour - 57 MB

Chanukah... oh, Chanukah. What a joyful bundle of contradictions. The minor holiday with a major cultural profile. The festival of lights in the darkest of times. The insurgent anti-assimilationist celebration that turned into an imitation of a certain keystone holiday of the Xtian empire. You may think you know this holiday, but let's take a closer look. Our four questions for Chanukah: 1. Who is the enemy and how do we fight them/it? 2. What ruins is it time for us to rededicate? 3. Which...

6. Shmini Atzeret / Simchat Torah

September 23, 2021 13:13 - 58 minutes - 95.4 MB

Okay now we're really into the deep-cut holidays. The last of the high holidays is the most mysterious, when we finish reading the Torah, pray for rain and dance like mad. Our questions: 1. Why is there a holiday about nothing? 2. What happens at the end of the Torah? 3. Have you ever seen the rain? / What’s rain got to do with it? 4. Why do we dance?

5. Sukkot

September 17, 2021 14:17 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MB

It's Sukkot! Temporary dwellings, agricultural prop-work, tons of joy, a sprinkle of nihilism, rubbing our difference in the devil's face. Learn about the B-side of the High Holidays. We surprised ourselves with this one and how thematically juicy it is. And it turned out to be a surprisingly emotional episode, too. Join us? The Queers (as always): Agnes Borinsky & Ezra Furman The Questions (rather minimalist, like a Sukkah): 1. What do we build? 2. What do we do? 3. Why is Kohelet so emo? 4...

4. Yom Kippur

September 09, 2021 15:07 - 1 hour - 114 MB

Yom Kippur. So intense. Drop that bagel and get repenting. The 2 Queers take on the holiest day of the year. We get into the weeds real fast with this one, but hang on because just beyond the weeds is where the good stuff is to be found. Our questions: 1. Is Yom Kippur a solemn or a joyful day? 2. What does fasting do? 3. What's the relationship between personal reckoning and communal reckoning? 4. What do we learn from Jonah? Email [email protected] to contact us for any reason a...

3. Rosh Hashanah

August 29, 2021 19:15 - 43 minutes - 35.1 MB

HAPPY NEW YEAR y'all, it's our Rosh Hashanah episode and it is a sweet one and a good one. Pass the honey and judge us mercifully, it's the beginning of a new calendar year. (Or is it????) Our four questions for Rosh Hashanah map on to the four major names of the holiday: 1. Why do we have a Jewish calendar? / Rosh HaShanah, head of the year 2. What does a shofar do? / Yom T'ruah, day of the shofar-blowing 3. What and how are we remembering? / Yom HaZikaron, day of remembrance 4. What do we ...

2. Elul

August 10, 2021 14:31 - 1 hour - 94.2 MB

Our first proper episode is here, and it's about the month of Elul, in which we get super quiet and introspective and everyone wonders what is going on with us. It's a month to prepare for the High Holidays and to focus on self-assessment, repentance, repair, relationships. Our Four Questions for Elul: 1. What is teshuvah and how do we do it? 2. Is being trans a kind of teshuvah? / Is doing teshuvah a kind of transness? 3. Is teshuvah subversive? 4. How is God involved?

1. Overture

August 01, 2021 19:53 - 44 minutes - 35.8 MB

Welcome to 2 Queers 4 Questions! In which we ask four new questions about each Jewish holiday. This is our introductory episode, which hopefully explain where we're coming from, what we're trying to do and why.