Shows
The Pen & The YadSpecial Episode: Rabbi Michael Siegel Discusses His Recent Trip to IsraelSupport the show2023-12-1815 minThe Pen & The YadSpecial Purim Episode: The Eerie Relevance of Purim on Saturday Night LiveSupport the show2021-02-2316 minThe Pen & The YadParsha Terumah: Who Needs a Synagogue Anyway?Support the show2021-02-1514 minThe Pen & The YadMishpatim: From Canaan to Whole FoodsSupport the show2021-02-0911 minThe Pen & The YadYitro: Getting Out of Our Bubble and Learning from OthersSupport the show2021-02-0216 minThe Pen & The YadBeshalach: Where’s Naashon When You Need Him?Support the show2021-01-2610 minThe Pen & The YadBo: Don’t Let the Facts Get in the Way of the Meaning of the Exodus StorySupport the show2021-01-1811 minThe Pen & The YadVaera: Standing Up for JusticeSupport the show2021-01-1314 minThe Pen & The YadShemot: Women Make The World Go Around: Then and NowSupport the show2021-01-0413 minThe Pen & The YadVayechi: Joseph vs. Moses / Utilitarianism vs. IdealsSupport the show2020-12-2813 minThe Pen & The YadVayigash: Joseph vs Moses / Utilitarianism vs IdealsSupport the show (https://cloud4good.tfaforms.net/366886)2020-12-2211 minThe Pen & The YadMiketz: Jewish Identities Hidden and Revealed from Joseph to Judah MaccabeeSupport the show2020-12-1515 minThe Pen & The YadVayeshev: Family Feud: Biblical EditionSupport the show2020-12-1012 minThe Pen & The YadParsha Vayishlach: Wrestling with Our Better AngelsSupport the show2020-12-0111 minThe Pen & The YadParsha Vayetzei: Stairway to Heaven—Jewish-StyleSupport the show2020-11-2412 minThe Pen & The YadParsha Toldot: Judging Others and Getting Beyond the One-and-Done SyndromeSupport the show2020-11-1612 minThe Pen & The YadChayei Sara: How Death Becomes UsSupport the show2020-11-1013 minThe Pen & The YadParsha Vayera: Standing Up For JusticeSupport the show2020-11-0211 minThe Pen & The YadLech Lecha: Abraham and the Lessons that We Would Do Well To Learn From Thirteen-Year-OldsSupport the show2020-10-2711 minThe Pen & The YadNoach: Noach’s Modern Moral ArcSupport the show2020-10-2012 minThe Pen & The YadBereshit: Finding God in the Order of CreationSupport the show2020-10-1316 minThe Pen & The YadSpecial Sukkot Episode: How Do You Measure Joy? Shemini Atzeret: One More DaySupport the show2020-10-0211 minThe Pen & The YadSpecial Yom Kippur Episode • Jonah: The Dove Who Refused to ReturnSupport the show2020-09-2314 minThe Pen & The YadShabbat Shuva / Ha'Azinu Shuva: The Jewish SuperpowerSupport the show2020-09-2213 minThe Pen & The YadRosh Hashanah: The Messiness of RedemptionSupport the show2020-09-1714 minThe Pen & The YadNitzavim-Vayelech: Hayom: The Power of TodaySupport the show2020-09-0913 minThe Pen & The YadKi Tavo: Identity and Memory: The Ultimate Jew-PSSupport the show2020-09-0215 minThe Pen & The YadKi Teitzei: Sparing the Rod and Spoiling the Child, Torah Style!Support the show2020-08-2614 minThe Pen & The YadShoftim: Who Judges Our Judges?Support the show2020-08-1816 minThe Pen & The YadRe’eh: We Are What We Eat As A Society: Jewish Views on Meat and MoralitySupport the show2020-08-1319 minThe Pen & The YadEikev: Rain, with a Chance of Punishment: The Weather and its Theological ImplicationsSupport the show2020-08-0615 minThe Pen & The YadVaetchanan: Making Sense of Hearing Over SeeingSupport the show2020-07-2914 minThe Pen & The YadDevarim: Compromise: Can You Compromise if You Feel Compromised?Support the show2020-07-2114 minThe Pen & The YadMatot-Masei: Our Choice to Live in the Diaspora: A Response to Moses and HerzlSupport the show2020-07-1416 minThe Pen & The YadPinchas: A zealot, A Reactionary, or Freedom Fighter and a Hero?Support the show2020-07-0914 minThe Pen & The YadBalak: What is So Good About Jewish Homes and Synagogues?Support the show2020-06-3011 minThe Pen & The YadChukat: A Biblical Lesson in Anger ManagementSupport the show2020-06-3013 minThe Pen & The YadKorach: The Fine Line Between Leadership and DemagoguerySupport the show2020-06-2314 minThe Pen & The YadShelach Lecha: What’s the Big Idea and What Does it Matter?Support the show2020-06-1713 minThe Pen & The YadSpecial Episode: A Conversation on Racism: Dr. King & George FloydSupport the show2020-06-1517 minThe Pen & The YadBeha'alotcha: Light My Fire: The Power of Human PotentialSupport the show2020-06-1113 minThe Pen & The YadNasso: Count Me In, Count Me Out: The Challenges of a CensusSupport the show2020-06-0413 minThe Pen & The YadShavuot: Pick a Commandment, Any CommandmentSupport the show2020-05-2715 minThe Pen & The YadBamidbar: Counting and Being Counted: The Power of a CensusSupport the show2020-05-2112 minThe Pen & The YadBechukotai: Truth or ConsequencesSupport the show2020-05-1412 minThe Pen & The YadEmor: Having the Time of Our Jewish LivesSupport the show2020-05-0710 minThe Pen & The YadAcharei Mot-Kedoshim: How Do We Define Holiness In Our Time?Support the show2020-04-2913 minThe Pen & The YadTazria-Metzora: Caring for the Ill in Time of FearSupport the show2020-04-2312 minThe Pen & The YadShemini: Living in Seven and Trying to Get to Eight: The Power of NumbersSupport the show2020-04-0810 minThe Pen & The YadThe Challenge of the Coronavirus: Where Does God Fit In?Support the show2020-04-0225 minThe Pen & The YadTzav: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Recycling to RecyclingSupport the show2020-04-0211 minThe Pen & The YadVayikra: Close to You: Before the Carpenters There was LeviticusSupport the show2020-03-2513 minThe Pen & The YadVayakel-Pekudei: How Do We Define Labor? How Do We Allow Our Labor to Define Us?Support the show2020-03-1809 minThe Pen & The YadKi Tisa: How Far Do We Stick Our Neck Out for Others? The Leaders Responsibility to Love His PeopleSupport the show2020-03-1309 minThe Pen & The YadTetzaveh: The Garment of LeadershipSupport the show2020-03-0512 minThe Pen & The YadTerumah: Does Giving from the Heart Lead to Giving with Heart?Support the show2020-02-2710 minThe Pen & The YadMishpatim: You Don’t Have to Live in the Past to Learn from the PastSupport the show2020-02-1915 minThe Pen & The YadYitro: Jethro or Amalek - Rewards, Dangers and Responsibilities for Jews Living in a Non-Jewish WorldSupport the show2020-02-1313 minThe Pen & The YadBeshalach: Hardened HeartsSupport the show2020-02-0611 minThe Pen & The YadBo: What Was the Purpose of the Plagues? It Depends on Who You AskSupport the show2020-01-3010 minThe Pen & The YadVaera: The Binding of Isaac: An Act of Faith or Recognition of Ownership?Support the show2020-01-2311 minThe Pen & The YadShemot: So--You Think You're God?Support the show2020-01-1614 minThe Pen & The YadVayechi: Are There Things That We Can Just Never Forgive—Even if It is Family?Support the show2020-01-0912 minThe Pen & The YadVayigash: It Is One Thing to Make Changes in Your Life, It is Another Thing Entirely For Others to Accept Those Changes, But It Can Make all the DifferenceSupport the show2020-01-0210 minThe Pen & The YadMiketz: Who Determines Jewish History? The Narrator, The Listener, or God?Support the show2019-12-2611 minThe Pen & The YadVayeshev: The Choice Between Being Right and Doing Right In Terms of Our Most Important RelationshipsSupport the show2019-12-1811 minThe Pen & The YadVayishlach: Jewish Wrestling: What Makes It Real?Support the show2019-12-1312 minThe Pen & The YadVayetzei: Let's Make a Deal: Biblical StyleSupport the show2019-12-0512 minThe Pen & The YadToldot: Let's Make a Deal with God. I'll Take What's Up with the LadderSupport the show2019-11-2613 minThe Pen & The YadChayei Sara: How I hear You, But am I Hearing You: The Power and the Blessing of Focused HearingSupport the show2019-11-2113 minThe Pen & The YadThe Binding of Isaac: An Act of Faith or the Recognition of Ownership?Support the show2019-11-1414 minThe Pen & The YadLech Lecha: The Tears of Hagar and The Fulfillment of a Bitter ProphecySupport the show2019-11-0714 minThe Pen & The YadNoach: Everyday HeroesSupport the show2019-10-3111 minThe Pen & The YadV'Zot Habracha: What Makes for a Jewish Hero? Why is Moses So High on the List?Support the show2019-10-1710 minThe Pen & The YadSpecial Episode: SukkotSupport the show2019-10-1008 minThe Pen & The YadBonus Yom Kippur Episode: Jonah - Prophet or Realist?Support the show2019-10-0313 minThe Pen & The YadSpecial Episode: Yom KippurSupport the show2019-10-0211 minThe Pen & The YadNitzavim: What is the Glue that Connects the Jewish People? Is It Strong to Hold Us TogetherSupport the show2019-09-2613 minThe Pen & The YadKi Tavo: My Father was a Wandering What? Being True to Our Own StoriesSupport the show2019-09-1911 minThe Pen & The YadKi Teitzei Amalek: The Hatred that Refuses to Stay in the PastAmalek: The Hatred that Refuses to Stay in the PastSupport the show2019-09-1213 minThe Pen & The YadShoftim: It's Good to be King-Sort of: The limitations of Jewish KingshipShoftim: It's to be King-Sort of: The limitations of Jewish KingshipSupport the show2019-09-0512 minThe Pen & The YadRe'eh: What is the Relevance of the Pilgrimage Festivals?This week, Rabbi Siegel and Jonathan Eig discuss the relevance of pilgrimage festivals. Support the show2019-08-2912 minThe Pen & The YadEikev: Cloudy with a Chance of ExileThis week, Rabbi Siegel and Jonathan Eig discuss the question, how do we understand our relationship on the Earth through a Jewish lens?Support the show2019-08-2211 minThe Pen & The YadVaetchanan: What does it mean to be a witness for God? Can a person be passive and still be a witness?What does it mean to be a witness for God? Can a person be passive and still be a witness?Support the show2019-08-1513 minThe Pen & The YadDevarim: Have I Got a Story for You!In this week's podcast, Rabbi Siegeil and Jonathan Eig go over finding the balance between the storyteller, the story and the facts. Support the show2019-08-0810 minThe Pen & The YadPinchas: The Problem with ZealotryWhen does heroic action cross the line into Zealotry?Support the show2019-07-2509 minThe Pen & The YadBalak: Woody Allen & Jewish IdentityFrom the Pagan Prophet Balaam to the world of entertainment, Jews have struggled to define their Identity. Support the show2019-07-1811 minThe Pen & The YadChukat: Cheeseburgers and Red Heifers: What Does Faith Have to Do with it?Why should we involved ourselves with laws that appear to be irrational? Is there meaning beyond that which we can understand?Support the show2019-07-1113 minThe Pen & The YadKo'ach: When Do We Challenge Authority?Did Korach have the right to challenge Moses? Did LeBron James destroy the Lakers? We all have the right and responsibility to challenge questionable leadership, but what happens when our personal desires become more important than the community’s? When does leadership cross the line into demagoguery? Rabbi Siegel and Jonathan Eig discuss this week’s Torah portion and the meaning of low voter turnout, among other things.Support the show2019-07-0310 minThe Pen & The YadShelach Lecha: Great Acts and Great ConfidenceRabbi Siegel and Jonathan Eig talk about why the Israelites lacked confidence Should they have been more courageous? What would Frederick Douglass or Al Capone have done? When is a leap of faith required to change the world?Support the show2019-06-2612 minThe Pen & The YadBeha'alotcha: Saying It and Praying It with FeelingHow do we express our feelings and emotions?Support the show2019-06-1912 minThe Pen & The YadNasso: A New Take on an Ancient BlessingThe importance of acknowledging our blessings and our responsibility to share them.Support the show2019-06-1213 minThe Pen & The YadBamidbar: Community and the Challenge of TechnologyThe importance of counting others and the creation of community in the age of technology. Support the show2019-06-0611 minThe Pen & The YadBechukotai: The Power of the word "If"A Biblical perspective on free will and the blessings and curses that come from our own hand.Support the show2019-05-3013 minThe Pen & The YadBehar: Release Us from Economic BondageLooking at the Jubilee year as an ancient blueprint to end the cycle of poverty.Support the show2019-05-2313 minThe Pen & The YadEmor: Does God Care About Physical Imperfections?If We are all created in the image of God why are only some Priests allowed to offer sacrifices.Support the show2019-05-1609 minThe Pen & The YadKedoshim: Defining HolinessRabbi Siegel and Jonathan Eig explore the meaning and relevance of holiness for the modern Jew.Support the show2019-05-1013 minThe Pen & The YadAchrei Mot: Send in the GoatsRabbi Siegel and Jonathan Eig discuss how to atone for sins and find common ground with members of your community in the age of social media. Can we really navigate human relationships by text messages? Does Google make forgiveness more difficult? How can the Torah help?Support the show2019-04-3013 minThe Pen & The YadMetzorah: Gossip & Slander as the Leprosy of Our TimeRabbi Siegel and Jonathan Eig discuss the misuse of words in the context of a Rabbinic interpretation of a Biblical image. hrough twitter and social media our society is perfecting the art of destroying people and reputations through words. What does our tradition teach? What are our responsibilities? Support the show2019-04-1112 minThe Pen & The YadTazria: Discovering a New Understanding of the Role of Women in an Unlikely TextWhile menstrual blood and skin disease do not naturally lend themselves to relevance in our own day, that may have to do with our own modern prejudices than the text itself. Rabbi Siegel argues that the fact that a central authority could override a husband’s desires was a quantum leap in the struggle for the rights of women. Hear how Jonathan Eig responds in this podcast episode.Support the show2019-04-0410 min