Unorthodox Presents Sivan Says

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Unorthodox is off this week, but today we’re sharing an episode of the Tablet podcast Sivan Says: Taking the Torah Personally, featuring Sivan Rahav-Meir and our own Liel Leibovitz. Parshat Bechukotai’s got a lot of blessings, and a lot of curses. Follow God’s commandments, you’re in the clear. Don’t follow them, some gnarly stuff can happen. Persecution. Exile. A divine wrath. But could it be that it’s all a blessing, even the curses? That the worst sin isn’t some particular action, but apathy towards our connection to God? Tune in to find out. Sivan Rahav-Meir is a leading Israeli journalist, media personality, and Torah scholar. You can sign up for her The Daily Thought WhatsApp group, where Sivan sends small insights about Judaism and current affairs. Learn more about becoming a Tablet member at tabletm.ag/uomember. Find out about our upcoming events at tabletmag.com/unorthodoxlive Write to us at unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave a voicemail on our listener line: (914) 570-4869. Unorthodox is produced by Tablet Studios. Check out all of our podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. SPONSORS: Brandeis University offers an online master’s certificate in Jewish Professional Leadership, training creative and compassionate Jewish leaders on a flexible schedule. Learn more at brandeis.edu/hornstein. Emanu-El Downtown’s Religious School Lab opens this fall in Manhattan for kids in kindergarten through sixth grade, offering a welcoming community, pick-up from local schools, and one-to-one virtual Hebrew instruction. Visit EmanuelDowntown.org for more. Since October 7, Meir Panim has provided over 2.5 million meals, essential items, and care packages to IDF soldiers and displaced families, as well as organizing events and daily support for thousands. Donate at meirpanim.org/unorthodox.

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0:00.0	Hello J crew welcome to an Orthodox the universe's leading Jewish
0:08.2	podcast I am your co-host Leah Le Leibowitz, and yeah, you're hearing right.
0:15.4	It is not a regular episode.
0:17.0	Usually you hear Stephanie, you hear Josh and Melina,
0:20.0	you hear a lot of jokes, you hear news of the Jews,
0:22.1	you hear guests, you hear interviews, but this week record scratch,
0:25.7	we're stopping it all to bring you something truly wonderfully special.
0:30.6	Today we want to share with you an episode of our brand new podcast
0:34.7	Sivan says taking the Torah personally. Here's the thing. If you don't know her
0:40.3	Sivan Ravir is exactly the teacher, the guru, the inspiration, the light that you need in your life
0:47.4	right now.
0:48.4	She's an Israeli journalist, author, thinker, but more importantly, Torah teacher.
0:52.7	And she has this amazing way of reading the Torah,
0:55.7	one parasha, one portion of Torah a week,
0:58.9	and making it feel not like, you know,
1:00.6	oh, well, it's something that you just need to learn.
1:03.0	Oh, that's the thing that the rabbi used to talk about.
1:05.6	She makes it feel really like it's incredibly relevant,
1:10.2	incredibly personal, incredibly timely, incredibly urgent because it is we don't have any better engine
1:17.3	for our spiritual yearnings than the Torah.
1:20.4	So here's what I want you to do.
1:21.7	I wanted to find a time and a place where you could really kind of listen to this when you're completely at peace.
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