Join Rabbi Adam Mintz and Rabbi Avraham Bronstein recorded on Clubhouse. This week while Geoffrey is Island hopping in Greece Madlik hosts a lively discussion between his two favorite co-hosts as they discuss the dramatic episode of Moses seeming disregard for God's command to talk to the rock and his fatal decision to strike it.
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Transcript on episode page: https://wordpress.com/post/madlik.com/4231
Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse. We sense that Korach’s rebellion has something to do with correct governance and even democracy, it’s just not clear what the message is and whose side we’re on. Join us as we survey Classical Jewish and philisophic literature on Korach and the enigma of Democracy.
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Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2023/06/21/the-people-v-korach/
Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on June 15th 202 on Clubhouse. The Biblical Spies looked like grasshoppers to themselves and so they imagined in the eyes of others. We review Rabbinic and later Zionist texts as we explore the pitfalls of a Slave and Ghetto mentality up until today.
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Transcript of episode web page: https://madlik.com/2023/06/14/the-grasshopper-mentality-and-the-new-jew/
Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on June 8th 2023 on Clubhouse. Pesah Sheni, the makeover Passover has been adopted by the Orthodox LGBTQ community as a Biblical holiday to accept different pathways, identities and evolutions amongst the Jewish People. We review the sources and celebrate!
Sefaria Source Sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/493778
Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2023/06/07/kosher-queer/
Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on Clubhouse on June 1st 2023. We compare and contrast the Biblical Sotah (Suspected Woman) and the ritual of the bitter waters to the trial by ordeal found in ancient societies up until the Salem Witch Trials. We ask, what we can learn from this primitive form of justice.
Sefaria Source sheet: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/492460
Transcript on episode web page: https://madlik.com/2023/06/01/truth-or-dare/