Join Geoffrey Stern for live Shavuot night learning on Clubhouse. We’ll prove, with the help of Yehudah Halevi, and beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the Torah was given at Sinai. In the process, we hope to share an insight into the meaning and challenge of Sinai.

Sefaria Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/489667 

Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2023/05/24/the-echo-of-sinai/ 

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on May 18th 2023 on Clubhouse. The Torah counts every able-bodied male to serve in the army and to pay their share of taxes and we look at the Haredi demand that they be exempt from military service and subsidized by the State and wonder…. why?

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Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2023/05/18/god-wants-you-to-serve/ 

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on May 11th 2023 on Clubhouse. We marvel at how Rabbinic Judaism modified if not totally abrogated explicite Biblical injunctions against selling land in perpetuioty and taking interest on loans. Using the Pruzbol and Heter Iska as case studies we explore the audacity of Rabbinic Judaism.

Sefaria Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/486023 

Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2023/05/10/prozbul-and-iska-llc/ 

Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on May 4th 2023 on Clubhouse. This week’s Torah portion is Emor.  In it we come across the source for the tradition for Jewish men to grow beards and Peyot (side curls) and the prohibition to cut the corners of the beard. We are struck by a recurring theme of the holiness of the corner whether in beard grooming, agricultural laws or in the four-cornered garment and we wonder whether there is something more at play.

Sefaria Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/484211

Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2023/05/04/rounding-the-corner-2/