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The Times of Israel Daily BriefingBonus Episode [SPONSORED]: Thoughts & Prayers - Does Prayer Work?In the first episode of Thoughts & Prayers, host Jessica Fisher explores one of the oldest and most unsettling questions in Jewish life: Does prayer work? Through deeply personal reflection and conversation with Sara Labaton, Josh Warshawsky, and Akiva Mattenson, the episode traces how ancient mystics, modern rationalists, and everyday seekers wrestle with the meaning and purpose of prayer — whether it changes the world, transforms us, or simply helps us keep knocking on a locked gate. Thoughtful, searching, and grounded in lived experience, this opening chapter invites listeners to reconsider what it really means to pray. Sources re...
2025-12-0637 min
Historias Jasidicas👉 ¡Dale play y sorprendete! Este final es IMPOSIBLE de olvidar.¡Recibí estas historias jasídicas en tu WhatsApp, participa en encuestas y entérate de todas las novedades del canal! 👉 https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaAy...ESTA HISTORIA ES PARA REFUÁ SHLEMÁ DE SARA BAT SARA Y BARBARA BAT EVA🧡 ¿Querés dedicar un episodio por un cumpleaños, Iortzait o refuá shlemá? Tu aporte permite que miles sigan inspirándose con la sabiduría jasídica.💸 Doná por Mercado Pago y PayPal: ALIAS MP: najumlk PayPal: najumlifsitz@gmail.com📣 Dedicado con cariño para la bendición y éxito de la familia Labaton 💙🎬 Historia [#6️⃣2️⃣8️⃣] – 🚍 El milagro inesperado en el colectivo de Jerusalén Un día común en el sistema de...
2025-07-2507 min
From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for LifeTalmud Class: Local Imperfect Peace Part 2: Mipnei Darchei Shalom (Being Nice to Promote Peace)Last week we encountered one kind of “imperfect peace,” to use the term coined by our teacher, Sara Labaton of Hartman: shalom bayit, domestic harmony, made possible by a lack of transparency in a marriage. We read the ruling of Ovadia Yosef that a wife not disclose the fact of her abortion before she had met her husband so that their marriage could continue.This week we encounter another complicated rabbinic category of imperfect peace: mipnei darchei shalom, the things we do for the sake of peace. Tomorrow morning we will encounter the Talmudic teac...
2025-05-1037 min
Identity/CrisisA Jewish Paradigm for Caring for the Sick – with Sara LabatonWhat does it mean to care for the sick—not just medically, but morally and spiritually?
In this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer invites Sara Labaton, Director of Teaching and Learning at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, to share her essay, Permission and Obligation: A Jewish Paradigm for Care, from the Spring issue of Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. Drawing from personal experience and Jewish texts, Sara explores the complexities of caregiving and examines the role of doctors, patients, and the community in the healing process.
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2025-05-0642 minFrom the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for LifeTalmud Class: Is a Small Peace, a Local Peace, an Imperfect Peace Worth Pursuing?Sara Labaton, the Director of Teaching and Learning at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, recently taught a group of local rabbis. She observed that the prophetic ideals of peace (lion lies down the with lamb, nations will beat swords into ploughshares, neither will they know war anymore) are so lofty as to be unattainable. Would we be better off looking towards rabbinic ideals of peace?The good news for rabbinic ideals of peace: not lofty. Not utopian.The bad news: rabbinic ideals of peace are small, local...
2025-05-0336 min
The Podcast of Jewish Ideas48. Abraham Ibn Ezra's Commentary | Dr. Sara LabatonJ.J. and Dr. Sara Labaton dive into the mysteries of Ibn Ezra’s revolutionary commentary on the Bible. This is episode 2 of our series on the ideas of Abraham Ibn Ezra. Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to converse with other listeners about secret hermeneutics.Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice!We welcome all complaints and compliments at podcasts@torahinmotion.orgFor more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcastsDr. Sara Labaton is Director of Teaching and Learning at the Shalom Har...
2024-11-171h 11The Podcast of Jewish Ideas48. Abraham Ibn Ezra's Commentary | Dr. Sara LabatonJ.J. and Dr. Sara Labaton dive into the mysteries of Ibn Ezra’s revolutionary commentary on the Bible. This is episode 2 of our series on the ideas of Abraham Ibn Ezra. Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to converse with other listeners about secret hermeneutics.Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice!We welcome all complaints and compliments at podcasts@torahinmotion.orgFor more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcastsDr. Sara Labaton is Director of Teaching and Learning at the Shalom Har...
2024-11-1539 minThe Podcast of Jewish Ideas48. Abraham Ibn Ezra's Commentary | Dr. Sara LabatonJ.J. and Dr. Sara Labaton dive into the mysteries of Ibn Ezra’s revolutionary commentary on the Bible. This is episode 2 of our series on the ideas of Abraham Ibn Ezra. Follow us on Twitter (X) @JewishIdeas_Pod to converse with other listeners about secret hermeneutics.Please rate and review the the show in the podcast app of your choice!We welcome all complaints and compliments at podcasts@torahinmotion.orgFor more information visit torahinmotion.org/podcastsDr. Sara Labaton is Director of Teaching and Learning at the Shalom Har...
2024-11-151h 12Identity/CrisisEchoes of History at the National Library of IsraelAs we mark 6 months since October 7 and approach the holiday of Passover, questions of communal memory feel more critical than ever. This week, guest host Sara Labaton speaks with Raquel Ukeles, Head of Collections at the National Library of Israel, about how the library is grappling with preservation, ownership, stewardship, and accessibility while creating a physical and cultural gathering place that represents all the communities whose heritage it houses. You can now sponsor an episode of Identity/Crisis. Click HERE to learn more. JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST FOR MORE HARTMAN...
2024-04-0942 minIdentity/Crisis#62: Foundational Judaism: What is It, and How Do We Teach It?Elana Stein Hain (Shalom Hartman Institute) joins Yehuda Kurtzer to introduce Hartman's newest curricular offering, Foundations for a Thoughtful Judaism, a sophisticated yet accessible introduction to Jewish thought for educators and students of all backgrounds. Featured here is an episode of the companion podcast, Conversations for a Thoughtful Judaism, where Hartman scholars Sara Labaton and Tomer Persico speak about the role of Jewish practice in their lives.
Learn more at shalomhartman.org/foundations
2021-07-1544 min