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🗓️ 18 May 2023
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0:00.0 | This is on Orthodox, the universe's leading Jewish podcast. |
0:06.2 | It's me, Stephanie Butnik, joined by my co-hosts, tablet editor at large, Liel Liebowitz. |
0:12.1 | Shalom to you. |
0:13.8 | Today on the show, it's our annual conversion episode. |
0:16.7 | And at the end of this episode, we are going to announce our brand new co-hosts. |
0:23.0 | Yay! |
0:24.0 | It's going to be quite an episode. |
0:26.4 | This year, around the holiday of Shavuot, we air an episode devoted to the stories of people |
0:31.3 | who found their way to Judaism, who weren't necessarily born Jewish, but had some kind |
0:35.8 | of journey towards becoming Jewish. |
0:38.7 | And so here we are on the eve of Shavuot. |
0:41.5 | And how are you feeling, Liel? |
0:43.2 | First of all, I just love that a people who have a genetic predisposition to not being |
0:48.4 | able to process dairy have an entire holiday in which all we eat is dairy. |
0:54.1 | It's just the most gorgeous thing. |
0:56.2 | So walk us through this holiday, Shavuot, we know dairy, we know Torah, we know conversion. |
1:02.3 | Here's the TLDR version. |
1:04.3 | It is the holiday, 50 days from Passover. |
1:06.9 | We prepare ourselves mentally like a kid counting down the days to her birthday. |
1:11.8 | Here we are counting down the days to having received the Torah, the greatest gift anyone |
1:17.8 | has ever or will ever receive. |
1:20.6 | And on this holiday, not only do we eat blinces and cheesecake, but we also read the book |
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