Charedim. Modern Liberal Values. Contradiction? Not really.
38 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago -I bring in whatever חכמה בגוים my Heiligeh rebbeim (among them b'chaim, Hagaon R' Elya Brudny, may he be zoiche to oirech Yamim b'ymima) recommend.
The main point is that when someone points out a 'stira' between Kabbalah (the part of the Torah that speaks about science (מעשה בראשית) and modern science, if he knows how to unify quantum theory with resistivity theory, and understand Kabbalah על עומקו, that's not a contradiction! That means that he can win a noble prize for scientific discovery! Science doesn't have the headstart that Kabbalah has but every thousand years it catches up a bit. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
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Episodes
The Rif; Riffing with Yisroel Ahron
November 15, 2023 00:57 - 19 minutes - 18.4 MBYisroel Aaron Allen and Shlomo Fingerer go on a tangent trail! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Women. Minyan. Rabbi, are Charedim sexist?
July 11, 2022 17:43 - 19 minutes - 9.14 MBNo. I’ll explain. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Science catches up to Rashi!
January 20, 2022 05:41 - 10 minutes - 10.3 MBScience is the miraculous epic of understanding Hashem through his creations. We got a few millennia of a head start when Hashem took us out on a Shir Hashirim styled date at Har Sinai and told us all about Himself! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Accepting The Torah
January 14, 2022 17:05 - 6 minutes - 3.26 MBWhat does it mean to you? What is your neshama going to take out of Parshas Yisro? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Charedi Ethics in the 21st century: Modernity In Talmud Bavli!
January 07, 2022 05:30 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBText me your take @ 347-512-4599 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
What is Modern-Orthodoxy? The first: A framework for embracing cognitive dissonance. Part 1
January 04, 2022 04:07 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBMishna Sanhedrin 11:1 & Avos 2:13 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Charedi Response To The Chaim Walder Saga, Explained By A Proud Charedi And Modern Orthodox Rabbi
December 30, 2021 02:39 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MBTLDR: help us be the best Charedim that we can be. Find your closest black hat-pants-shoes and white shirt, yeshiva fellow. Ask how you can help start a Vaad Hatznius to combat voyeurism and me2-type situations. Ask how you can help start a Va’ad L’Tohar HaChinuch, to root out ‘pritzus’ attacking our tinokos shel beis rabban. If you have an idea teach us. Charedism is VERY anti inappropriate sex. Help us. Criticizing doesn’t take any less effort than helping! --- Support this podcast: http...
Who are you at your core?
December 14, 2021 15:22 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBAs a Talmudist (before printing, and needed to be remembered sometimes by heart period so it was imperative to jump from interesting thing to something interesting even if it was a different subject period just for memory purposes.) I jump from subject to subject so you get my thoughts for pretty much the whole semester --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Rebbetzin Torah!
December 12, 2021 04:16 - 21 minutes - 20 MBRabbi Shlomo was so sheltered in his decade in yeshiva. He only knows what college is because Trump bragged about it. Melody is a NYU graduate in both physics and computer science. She married him and convinced to bringing him up to date with some developments that he missed in the 2 decades. She have him a Pixel, told him about life in Texas, and test him how to love pets, whole explaining that when they move to Texas, he can have a pretty point, like she had. --- Support this podcast: ht...
Make Tefilah Your's!
September 05, 2021 02:15 - 6 minutes - 5.97 MBConnecting your modern soul to cherished millennia old verbiage. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
My challenge to you: find meaning in the most meaningless drudgery that your life has.
August 30, 2021 17:58 - 14 minutes - 7.12 MBThe ladder to happiness, P.E.R.M.A., has M. for meaning. I'm NYC, we identify with our jobs. Don't let it feel like useless drudgery. You are contributing to the quality of life improvements of the poorest of the poor. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
How to have more positive emotions than negative emotions, tilting the scale towards happiness.
August 30, 2021 17:31 - 1 minute - 914 KBSeligman's P.E.R.M.A. model argue that feeling that you are living a life well lived/ happiness, is the result of building these 5 rungs. P. Is for positive emotions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
The Talmudic Imperative To Act With Self Confidence, ESPECIALLY When You Feel Unworthy.
August 30, 2021 16:36 - 7 minutes - 3.66 MBhttps://www.sefaria.org/Sotah.22a.13?with=all&lang=bi https://www.sefaria.org/Avodah_Zarah.19b.4?with=all&lang=bi https://www.sefaria.org/Exodus.4.10?with=all&lang=bi&aliyot=0 https://www.sefaria.org/Jonah.1?lang=bi --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
תחת אשר לא עבדת את ה' אלוקיך בשמחה ובטוב לבב מרוב כל!
August 29, 2021 22:08 - 5 minutes - 2.81 MBThe first of the 5 components of the PERMA model for happiness is P, for Positive emotions. To achieve that, wonder if everyone is pausing you behind your back, right now! Can you be sure they aren't? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Praying, when you believe that none of listening.
August 27, 2021 16:45 - 6 minutes - 3.1 MBWhat is the point? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Dear Rabbi Shlomo Judaism is home for many of us. It's it culture. It's our heritage. As an atheist?
August 27, 2021 16:36 - 16 minutes - 8.09 MBYes. An atheist can FULLY participate in every part of our tradition, prayers included. The story about hypocrisy is just that, a worry. Focus on finding meaning in the commandments one at a time b you CAN become one of the many greats who have become Orthodox lay leaders even as they were quitely atheist, just because they found it so meaningful. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
A Haredi Atheist?!
August 01, 2021 02:15 - 4 minutes - 4.03 MBIf you lost your faith, you need not lose your religion. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Davening for the rebuilding of Yerushalayim!
July 19, 2021 20:35 - 2 minutes - 2.14 MBFeeling the loss while in Mir Yerushalayim's beautiful building --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Feel cringeworthy? That is proof that others believe that you did well. Summary.
June 10, 2021 00:07 - 1 minute - 770 KBThe previous episode goes into Talmudic style rigourous logic to justify my claim: this is the 2 minutes summary. A) You care enough that you actually feel bad. B) In a field where there aren't clear standards, no standardized scores or lap times, "good" means what most people are like, including their bad days and mistakes. C) Your thinking that you did bad, suggests that you are someone who in this area that you 'made a fool of yourself', in that area, you pay attention...
Rabbi Shlomo, I'm afraid of public speaking. I once made such a faux-pa that I cringe constantly.
June 09, 2021 23:47 - 1 hour - 88.5 MBListen carefully, dear freind: Feeling cringeworthy about your performance, in any subjective domain, is proof that you are good at that. I will spend as long as you need, to help you understand this radically innovative idea. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
You can be a full Convert/Giyores/Ger while not being a Zionist in the colloquial sense of the word.
May 27, 2021 02:48 - 15 minutes - 27.6 MBDon't confuse emotions for logic. Your critics have real cultural trauma. Give them a hug. The theology will come, but not when emotions are high. Emotions and logic are not the same language! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
On The Final, 15% is: Were You Eagerly Anticipating Moshiach. Let's commit to acing this one:-)
March 05, 2021 22:21 - 24 minutes - 12.1 MB1) מסכת שבת דף לא עמוד א 2) מכות דף כג: 3) קידושין דף ל: 4) משלי פרק כב פסוק ו'. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Big-Bang? Evolution? EMUNA 'PESHUTA' ROCKS!! Science is nothing more than Kabbalah.
February 22, 2021 18:56 - 10 minutes - 5.15 MBNot knowing what to make of it is a badge of pride!!! It should remind you that you are a true yarei Shomayim (that's why you haven't yet learned the Kabbalah that address how Hashem made the world) and a true Ben Toirah (that's why you don't know the Applied Theoretical Physics (Cosmology) of how Hashem created the universe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Emuna Peshuta is a badge of honor.
February 22, 2021 18:40 - 10 minutes - 5 MBWhen you hear my colleagues, scientists in the ivy league world, her fancy word, like big bang and evolution. Pick your shoulders up with pride!!!! You have the real thing. They are going their best, but we've got the direct transmission!!! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Kabbalah & Torah teasers for future clips
February 22, 2021 18:26 - 10 minutes - 4.88 MB--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Hashem is all around you. Science is His will. Nature is the expression of His Unvarying Kedusha.
February 19, 2021 02:20 - 19 minutes - 9.68 MBLiving the Torah-life is living in sync with the universe, at one with nature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
The Laws of Science are the devar Hashem. That's why they are so constant. Hashem does not change.
February 19, 2021 01:34 - 8 minutes - 3.9 MBDon't be intimidated by your great uncle who is a doctor. Science is explaining the Toirah. Not the other way around😂 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Should you be afraid of your knowledge that scientists say that there was a big bang?
February 19, 2021 01:21 - 9 minutes - 4.56 MBNo. It actually is mechazek Emuna. There was a beginning-> someOne started it. The bang was an infinetly strong flash of light, teaching us what Vayomer Hashem Yehi Ohr Va'yehi Ohr, what it means, and why that started Ma'asei Breshis. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Second half https://www.sefaria.org/Hosea.6.3?with=Talmud&lang=bi
February 18, 2021 23:41 - 28 minutes - 14 MBGetting close to Hashem --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Encountering science as one who spent 10 years in full imersion yeshiva.
February 18, 2021 23:08 - 17 minutes - 8.43 MBHow I turned it into a tool to bring me closer to our Holy Dad. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Corrupt the rabbi! He thinks, this is a Torah class finding spirituality in videogaming! Melody🥳
February 01, 2021 04:57 - 21 minutes - 20.6 MBRabbi Shlomo was so sheltered in his decade in yeshiva. He only knows what college is because Trump bragged about it. Melody is a NYU graduate in both physics and computer science. She married him and convinced to bringing him up to date with some developments that he missed in the 2 decades. She have him a Pixel, told him about life in Texas, and test him how to love pets, whole explaining that when they move to Texas, he can have a pretty point, like she had. --- This episode is sponsore...
Rabbi, I'm a yeshiva boy struggling with my belief. What can I do?
December 11, 2020 20:45 - 16 minutes - 7.94 MBEmuna, Torah AND Science, staying observant as an atheist and more. From a Talmudic perspective. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
Mitzvot are more of an opportunity than a challenge.
November 29, 2020 16:42 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBIt is not an empty system of rules, it is the meaning of your life! https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.32.47?with=all&lang=bi&aliyot=0 This verse is a challenge to each and every one of us, to find meaning in each mitzva (to the point where one would keep doing it even if they didn't have to!!!) (I was inspired to this interpretation by https://www.sefaria.org/Shaarei_Teshuvah.3.145?with=all&lang=bi ) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
A Charedi who is a Modern Orthodox rabbi shares his insights on the two;what can we each learn from?
November 16, 2020 19:45 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBR'Shlomo touches on a whole range of original and thought provoking topics. Each of these topics will get their own episode, in due time. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support
A Charedi who is a Modern Orthodox rabbi shares his insights on the2, what can we each learn from?
November 16, 2020 19:45 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBR'Shlomo touches on a whole range of original and thought provoking topics. Each of these topics will get their own episode, in due time.
Charedi illuy becomes Modern Orthodox Rabbi. What Can The two Holy Worlds learn From Each Other? (Trailer)
November 15, 2020 19:45 - 25 seconds - 399 KB--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shlomo-fingerer/support
There Is No Nature. It's All Torah. My Journey, From The Top Yeshivos To The Top College With This (Trailer)
November 15, 2020 19:45 - 25 seconds - 399 KB--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shlomofingerer/support
Charedim. Modern Liberal Values. Contradiction? Not really. (Trailer)
November 15, 2020 19:45 - 25 seconds - 399 KB--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shlomofingerer/support