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Life comes first
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - May 03, 2024 02:21 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThis week’s parsha is Acharei Mot.. literally; After Death. From Rabbinic Judaism up until the present, we Jews “Choose Life”. Was it always so? Was it so obvious? Is it the secret sauce of Jewish survival? And…. Is it at the core of the current conflict? So many questions and only half an hour...
Madlik Model Seder 2024
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - April 18, 2024 02:33 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. This year our Seder will be different from other seders. For the first time in many of our lives it will be a Leil Shemorim, a night of concern; a night of uncertainty, fatigue and confusion. So, let’s follow the advice of the Rabbis to...
From Farm to Table - Organic Israeli Judaism
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - April 12, 2024 03:31 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOn the last day of a wartime visit to Israel, I visit the Shittim Institute; The Kibbutz Institute for Holidays and Jewish Culture, situated on kibbutz Beit Hashita in Northern Israel. I recently discovered this amazing institute when I purchased a first edition Kibbutz Be'eri Haggadah from 1950...
Where have all the helmets gone?
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - April 05, 2024 13:54 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA conversation in Jerusalem with Professor Daniel Polisar, co-founder of Shalem College and his assistant, Hannah Liberman. We talk about the miraculous and sui generis emergence of the Hamal Yerushalyim; The Jerusalem Civilian Command Center at the beginning of the October 7th War. We also try...
Haredi Soldiers Speak
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - April 01, 2024 20:49 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern in the Negev to meet with soldiers in the 97th Netzah Yehuda Battalion, previously known as Nahal Haredi, a battalion in the Kfir Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces. The soldiers are all Haredi and you will be hearing first from the commander and then from one of the new r...
Veterans of the Yom Kippur War - Optimism and Protest
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - March 30, 2024 12:56 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin us for a conversation with Elimelech Crystal; one of the leaders of Beyahad Em Lochamey Kippur 1973, an organization dedicated to supporting Israel's combat soldiers while at the same time protesting the current government. Transcipt on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2024/03/30/vet...
The Next Day with Ruth Calderon
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - March 27, 2024 17:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern in conversation with Ruth Calderon. In Israel while the war in Gaza rages on and with over 100 hostages still in captivity, we sit down with Talmud scholar and founder of Amla; Ruth Calderon to discuss the need to reclaim Jewish texts and create a shared cultural language in ...
Torat Cohanim - Then and Now
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - March 22, 2024 02:56 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. The Book of Vayikra (Leviticus) is also called Torat Cohanim (The Priestly Torah) and has traditionally been the first book to be studied by children in the Cheder. Today there is a growing and no longer fringe group of Mikdashnikim who...
Transparency, Accountability and Citation
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - March 15, 2024 04:09 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. Moses feels obliged to acknowledge the individuals who designed and built the Tabernacle and to provide an exact accounting of all the funds used. We explore the profound place that transparency, accountability and most of all; hono...
Shekels Count
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - March 08, 2024 04:57 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. By tradition, the holiday of Passover is preceded by five specially named Shabbatot. The first is called Shekalim and we discuss the meaning of this shabbat in light of both Rabbinic and New Testament texts and in the process join o...
Human and Divine Interactions
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - March 01, 2024 06:21 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. We invite Berel Dov Lerner the author of recently published: Human-Divine Interactions in the Hebrew Scriptures to discuss his book and his premise of Covenants and Cross-Purposes. We’ll use a simple basin made of pedestrian copper...
Making Hope with Maoz Inon and Hamze Awawde
NIF Australia Podcast - February 26, 2024 21:23 - 57 minutesOur conversation with peace activists Maoz Inon and Hamze Awawde as we continue to reel from the events of October 7 and the subsequent violence since. Maoz lost his parents in the horrific attacks of October 7 and has since become a leading voice for peace in international media. Hamze is a ...
The Sorcerers Apprentice
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - February 22, 2024 22:57 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. We explore the enigma of the Urim and Thummim; the priestly breastplate, especially within the context of the Torah’s explicit rejection of sorcery and divination. And we wonder …. We wonder about contemporary incarnations of divina...
Paradigm Shift
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - February 16, 2024 02:46 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbiu Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. According to Rabbinic tradition Moses was shown a paradigm of the Menorah but was uncertain how to translate the vision into reality of the moment. Bezalel had no such reservations and succeeded where Moses failed. We use this trad...
The Black Church and Israel
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - February 09, 2024 02:44 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern, Rabbi Adam Mintz and special guest, the Reverand Dumisani Washington recorded on Clubhouse. As the rubber meets the road and the Torah begins to translate its vision of liberation into practical rules and regulations, we sense a pattern. The Torah starts by addressing a lega...
Jethro and the Druze
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - February 02, 2024 00:48 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern, Rabbi Adam Mintz and special guest Shikh Muhan Fares for a discussion recorded on Clubhouse.. We celebrate Yitro and our Druze brothers and sisters. We marvel at the superlatives that the Torah uses to describe Jethro and how the same characteristics of loyalty, leadership a...
Nachshon and Action Bias
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - January 26, 2024 04:22 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. Nachshon is the posterchild of what Heschel called “Praying with your feet”. He personifies Judaism’s clear bias for action over the status quo, action over prayer and even action over reflection. Today we explore the darker side o...
Entitlement Reform
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - January 19, 2024 02:04 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. Of all the plagues, only the plague of the firstborn carries a timeless message. It represents the culmination of the Torah’s critique of primogeniture and takes on a life of its own in the Israelite law of the firstborn and first f...
MLK and Exodus
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - January 12, 2024 03:21 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. We explore Martin Luthur King Jr.’s iconic “I have a Dream” speech along with an interview he gave at the Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly for Conservative Judaism, a year after the 6 Day War and 10 days before he was assassina...
Exodus and the birth of a nation
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - January 05, 2024 01:29 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam MIntz recorded on Clubhouse. Following Classical Rabbinic sources that show a link between the Family Story of Genesis and the Birth of a Nation Story of Exodus we review a recently published book: Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and it...
Until Shiloh Comes
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - December 29, 2023 03:03 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. As we complete the book of Genesis, we look at a few verses that have been interpreted by both Jewish and Christian exegetes and explore how these commentaries may have been a conversation rather than a polemic. In the process, and ...
A Wonderful Life
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - December 22, 2023 02:48 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. Joseph is confronted with his long-lost family who thought he had died. It is the so called: “holiday season” which can be a difficult time. While many of us celebrate, some of us wonder, with the passing of another season, of anoth...
Social Cohesion Amidst Rising Tension: A Conversation with Josh Burns MP and Allegra Spender MP
NIF Australia Podcast - December 17, 2023 21:11 - 54 minutesOver the past few weeks, it has become clear that there is a need to address the rising tensions in Australian society. NIF is proud to bring you an important conversation that promises to provide a nuanced understanding of our current reality, and the need to strengthen social cohesion during t...
Appeasement in its time
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - December 01, 2023 05:26 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. Jacob, now called Israel, approaches is estranged brother with trepidation. He splits his clan in half in order to minimize any losses and he sends gifts and otherwise tries to appease Esau. We explore appeasement and compromise in ...
Conversation with Dr Yeela Raanan, Regional Council of Unrecognised Villages
NIF Australia Podcast - November 27, 2023 23:55 - 30 minutesOur conversation with Dr Yeela Raanan of the Regional Council of Unrecognised Villages (RCUV). Donate to and learn about RCUV's work, particularly at this crucial moment, here: https://www.nif.org.au/donate
Conversation with Dr Yasmeen Abu-Fraiha (For the Jewish International Film Festival 2023)
NIF Australia Podcast - November 27, 2023 23:50 - 24 minutesOur conversation with Dr Yasmeen Abu-Fraiha for the Jewish International Film Festival 2023, recorded November 12 2023. Yasmeen is a young doctor, specialising in internal medicine, who is currently acting as the Executive Director of Rodaina, an NGO she founded that aims to prevent genetic di...
Conflict Resolution
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - November 23, 2023 02:10 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. In a week where indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Qatar and with pressure from the public and the US have appeared to have reached a tentative and partial hostage deal, we explore, what according to Rabbini...
In Conversation with Rabbi David Stav
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - November 16, 2023 19:46 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsRav Stav is the co-founder of the Tzohar, a rabbinical organization which aims to provide religious services to and create dialogue with the broader Israeli population. He also serves as the rabbi of the city of Shoham. Previously he served as the rabbi of the religious film school, Maale, and ...
Women Wage War
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - November 10, 2023 03:04 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. In the only parsha named after a woman we continue our exploration of issues raised by Israel at war. In the Jewish State, Jewish law (Halacha) has exclusive jurisdiction over marriage and divorce for Jews. One area where Orthodox w...
Making a Place for the Displaced
Madlik Podcast – Disruptive Torah Thoughts on Judaism - November 03, 2023 03:13 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. Over 250,000 innocent civilians have been displaced since the advent of the Oct 7th war from both the South and the North of Israel. Volunteers, non-government organizations and tech workers who were organizing protests a month ago ...