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Ta ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Mattot-Mas'ei: On the Other Side of the JordanMoshe’s real concern, when Reuven and Gad ask to remain on their side of the Jordan, is the way that distance can split families apart. 2025-07-2309 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Pinhas: A Father’s DaughterDaughters of fathers are different from sons. Daughters, as they grow, do not take on their father’s image. A daughter’s voice will not deepen into her father’s baritone. Her jaw will not sharpen to resemble his, and, in all likelihood, she will not reach his height. Rarely will anyone ever be startled when they encounter her on the street after her father’s death, thinking for a moment, because of their resemblance, that they are seeing a ghost.2025-07-1607 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Balak: Turning to SeeThe moment when Bilaam can’t see the angel is familiar to us—too familiar for comfort.We’ve seen this scene before: a hidden angel, an unusual occurrence, the word of God. We’ve seen it all at the burning bush (sneh), the moment when Moshe, our greatest prophet, receives his first mission: speech.2025-07-0907 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Hukkat: Miriam of WordsIt is Miriam who was always the speaker of the three siblings. Miriam, who, according to the Talmud, was also called Puah because of the sounds she made to soothe women in childbirth as their babies emerged into the world. Miriam, who used her words to stand up to her father when he separated from his wife, insisting that a chance at life, however small, was better than no chance at all. Miriam who quickly figured out what words would ensure that Pharaoh's daughter would adopt Moshe, creating the path to redemption.2025-07-0205 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Korah: Pretended PerfectionThe most insidious part of Korach’s claim is that it is a lie we desperately want to believe.2025-06-2507 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Shelah: When the Story ChangesTo be a Jew is to believe in impossible dreams.To be a Jew is to believe that slaves can become free. It is to believe that the senselessness of this world can be disrupted by divine words that break through the barrier between heaven and earth. It is trust, even on our darkest days, that we are part of God’s dream.2025-06-1808 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat BeHa'alotkha: Unspoken WordsThe tragedy of Moshe’s final conversation with his father-in-law are the words that he leaves unsaid.2025-06-1107 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Naso: Choosing to LiveThere are moments in life where things have gone so wrong that we cannot see a way forward. That may be what has happened to the woman who chooses to drink the sotah waters.2025-06-0406 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Bemidbar: A Jew Without SinaiTo be a Jew is, when we are lucky, to feel the memory of Sinai in our bones. We strive to feel as if we have experienced both the slavery and liberation of Egypt first hand, as if we ourselves saw God’s miracles. 2025-05-2810 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat BeHar-BeHukkotai: Breaking the CycleWhen it comes to the enslavement of Jews, God gives us two imperatives. First, strive to be like God. Failing that, resist the temptation to become like the Egyptians.2025-05-2108 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Emor: A Tale of Two StructuresParashat Emor features two types of ritual buildings: the first, the mishkan (tabernacle), later transformed into the beit ha-mikdash (Temple); and the second, a sukkah. We encounter the mikdash this week, mostly in the form of limits on who may serve in it and how they must conduct themselves. Those who may serve there are not allowed to engage with the world as other Jews are: kohanim (priests) are not permitted any contact with the dead, except for their closest relatives. The Kohen Gadol may not even become impure through contact with the dead for his closest rel...2025-05-1407 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Aharei Mot-Kedoshim: Two WoundsYom Kippur, depending on who tells its story, is animated by one of two central wounds.2025-05-0707 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Tazria-Metzora: The Discovery of BirthEach of us was brought into this world by someone who allowed their body to become home to a stranger. This is what mothers do before we meet our children: watch, sometimes in wonder, and sometimes in grief, as the bodies which were once ours alone grow, bend, ache, and change in ways that make us unrecognizable to ourselves. Feel our ribs widen, our bodies force themselves apart, to create room for new life. Bind ourselves to a person whose face we have never seen.2025-04-3007 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Shemini: The Question in the MiddleVayikra is a book that is concerned with the holy and the profane; the pure and the impure. Nearly every mitzvah in Vayikra contains these categories. The Jewish people are told that they are to be kadosh because God is kadosh. In Vayikra, it is the holy that is the primary pathway to God. The mishkan (tabernacle), the center of holiness on earth, is the pathway for that connection.2025-04-2308 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Tzav: Ashes to AshesThe burnt ashes of the korbanot (sacrifices), piled on the altar, represent the intermingled prayers and dreams, experiences and regrets, of the Jewish people.2025-04-0907 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Vayikra: Blood and BreathThe unspoken drive towards human sacrifice lurks in the background of Sefer Vayikra. 2025-04-0207 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Pekudei: Silver and GoldHuman beings love to make idols of our dead. Desperate to keep our lost loved ones within reach, we create forms that we can cling to in their stead. We name buildings and mark park benches; install portraits and keep voicenotes on our phones. We believe, somewhere in our hearts, that if we can create the right form, capture the right image, wear the right talisman—his scarf, her watch—then they are not really gone.2025-03-2607 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Vayakhel: Returning to ShabbatIt’s only in the moment when Moshe once again commands the Jewish people to keep Shabbat that we know they are truly forgiven.2025-03-1908 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Ki Tissa: Who Does God Desire?The Jews have every reason to believe Moshe will never come back.We’ve seen this play before, the last time with a father and son: a three day journey into the wilderness for sacrifice (the story that Moshe tells Pharaoh) at some unknown place, which turns out to be a mountain. We know this story, but the last time we saw it told, the main characters were Avraham and Yitzhak2025-03-1204 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Tetzaveh: Between Absence and EmptinessTetzaveh is a parashah of absence.While Moshe has been a constant presence since the beginning of Shemot, in Tetzaveh, Moshe’s name is not mentioned a single time.2025-03-0505 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Terumah: Caring for GodIf you are lucky, you will live to see your parents begin to need you in the way you once needed them.You will feel it most in the small things: lifting a cup of water to your mother’s lips; adjusting the light your father can sleep. Laying a hand on his forehead.And you will be desperately sad, but also lucky, because each time you do these things, you will remember that they once, so many times, did them for you. And you will know that you were, and are, loved.God, too, is a p...2025-02-2605 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Mishpatim: The Day AfterMishpatim, after the narrative path we’ve experienced so far in Shemot, can feel dizzying. Until now, Shemot has seemed like a straightforward story: slavery, Exodus, and revelation. It is a narrative that unfolds in a basically clear order, with a clear str¡ucture. It is a story that can be read, if not precisely like any other book, at least in much the same way. 2025-02-1907 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Yitro: Remembering the ShepherdIt’s only when Yitro, who knew Moshe before he became a leader, comes to meet him that we learn how lost Moshe has become.2025-02-1206 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Beshallah: Ghosts in the HaggadahThe Exodus from Egypt is, in one way of telling it, a ghost story.This is not the usual genre we assign to the tale. We describe it as a story of liberation. The emotions we associate with it are a mixture of triumph, joy, and awe. But stories are created, in part, by where we choose to begin and end them, and the Exodus is a story with many beginnings.2025-02-0508 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Bo: Telling God’s StoryWhose story do we tell on the Seder night?The answer, at first, seems obvious: the story we tell is our own, the story of our deliverance from slavery to freedom. It is the core story of our people. It is the grand drama of Jewish history in which we are still enmeshed today.But this week’s parashah offers another interpretation, one in which it is God, not (only) ourselves, at the center of the story. 2025-01-2907 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Va'Era: Remembering Who We AreAfter Pharaoh's first refusal, after the Jewish people's burden increases because of his words, Moshe can't imagine redemption.2025-01-2207 min
il posto delle paroleDomenico Barrilà "Individualisti si cresce"Domenico Barrilà"Individualisti si cresce"Come rovini la vita di tuo figlio e di chi gli sta attornoFeltrinelli Editorewww.feltrinellieditore.itL’individualismo ammala la tua vita senza che tu ne abbia coscienza, rendendoti agente di infezioni verso i tuoi simili, a cominciare da quelli più vicini, i tuoi figli, ai quali complicherai la vita senza che ti sfiori il dubbio di averlo fatto davvero. Penserai di essere immune dall’individualismo, tu. Ti conosci bene, lo sai per certo. Se non fosse che l’individualismo è un vero mago dei travestimenti, oltre a essere...2025-01-1532 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Shemot: Choosing HopeWomen’s wombs lie at the heart of the Exodus.2025-01-1507 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayehi: “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?”It is easy to forget that the end of Bereishit is a surprise ending.So used to the fact that all twelve sons and their descendants are included in the Jewish nation, we forget that that wasn’t always necessarily part of the plan, that the inclusion of all children is something new and unexpected.2025-01-0810 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayigash: Learning to Re-Read Our DreamsAs he approaches the man that he thinks is the viceroy, entrapped in the massive lie that Yosef has arranged, Yehudah begins to tell the truth.It has been a long road to this moment. For so long, the brothers have been committed to a lie, the vision of their family as they wished it was, in which their father loved all of them, in which there was no favorite—most beloved wife and her favorite, most beloved sons—the family they tried desperately to create the day they sold Yosef, and that, as they saw Ya’akov cr...2025-01-0808 min
The Mishlei PodcastMishlei 15:13 - Happy Faces and Sad Hearts (Part 2) CORRECTED UPLOAD Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Mishlei 15:13 - Happy Faces and Sad Hearts (Part 2)לֵב שָׂמֵחַ יֵיטִב פָּנִים, וּבְעַצְּבַת לֵב רוּחַ נְכֵאָה:Length: 30 minutesSynopsis: This morning (1/2/25), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we did a quick review of yesterday's ideas, then - in an unexpected plot twist - learned RASHI! This led to a discussion of what it means to have a relationship with God. After that, we learned Ralbag, who talked about the importance of our emotional/mental health in our learning, and we concluded with Saadia Gaon (as quoted by R' Yosef Kimchi) who talked about the impact of emotional/mental health...2025-01-0233 minThe Mishlei PodcastMishlei 15:13 - Happy Faces and Sad Hearts (Part 2) Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text!Mishlei 15:13 - Happy Faces and Sad Hearts (Part 2)לֵב שָׂמֵחַ יֵיטִב פָּנִים, וּבְעַצְּבַת לֵב רוּחַ נְכֵאָה:Length: 30 minutesSynopsis: This morning (1/2/25), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we did a quick review of yesterday's ideas, then - in an unexpected plot twist - learned RASHI! This led to a discussion of what it means to have a relationship with God. After that, we learned Ralbag, who talked about the importance of our emotional/mental health in our learning, and we concluded with Saadia Gaon (as quoted by R' Yosef Kimchi) who talked about the impact of emotional/mental health...2025-01-0230 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Mikeitz: Bringing Dinah HomeBy the time Yosef reaches Egypt, he is one of a long list of lost children in the Abrahamic family. It’s a family that has always been made up of insiders and outsiders, those who stay and those who are exiled. 2024-12-2505 minTa ShmaRabbis Yitz Greenberg, Shai Held and Tali Adler: The Triumph of Life, and of LoveOver the past year, Rabbis Yitz Greenberg and Shai Held each published major works in Jewish thought, The Triumph of Life and Judaism Is About Love, respectively. In honor of the recent appearance of Rav Yitz's book, join Hadar for a freewheeling discussion between Rav Yitz and Rav Shai-- about Judaism's celebration of life, about its insistent focus on love, and about the relationship between those two ideas. Moderated by Hadar's Rabbi Tali Adler. Recorded in November 2024. 2024-12-231h 11Ta ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayeishev: Despair Meets HopeIn order to understand why Yehudah does not want Tamar to marry Shelah, his youngest son, after his first two sons die, we need to understand who Yehudah has become since Yosef's sale.2024-12-1810 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat VaYishlah: Choosing Not to RunWhat was Ya’akov doing the night he was left alone on the other side of the river, the night he wrestled with an angel? According to the Rashbam, Ya’akov was trying to run away.2024-12-1106 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat VaYeitzei: Rachel's SacrificeThe stories we tell about sacrifice tell us about who and what we believe is valuable and noble. In telling us about the thing that is sacrificed, these stories tell us about what we believe is most difficult to give up. In telling us what we sacrifice for, these stories tell us about what our supreme values should be. In telling us what inner resources are required to bring the sacrifice, these stories tell us what virtues we ought to cultivate. In telling us who sacrifices, these stories tell us what a religious hero looks like—and who is capab...2024-12-0409 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Toldot: Rivkah, The Ambivalent MatriarchWe all know the story we are supposed to tell about our matriarchs and their journeys to motherhood.The story structure is simple, even if the journey is not. Woman wants to be a mother. Woman cannot become a mother. Woman waits, prays, and, if necessary, enlists help to conceive. Woman becomes pregnant, finally gives birth to a child, and thanks God. It’s a tidy story, and it expresses most of what we want to think about mothers—that more than anything, that state is what they’ve dreamed for, longed for; that all their lives they h...2024-11-2709 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Unfulfilled PromisesAt the end of this week’s parashah, Avraham—who has been promised time and time again ownership over all the land of Canaan—owns nothing but a grave.When we read Avraham’s journey carefully, this ending may not surprise us. From the very beginning of Parashat Lekh Lekha, Avraham’s life is marked by fantastic, unbelievable promises, shortly followed by obstacles that make their fulfillment seem impossible. Told by God to leave his home behind, Avraham arrives in Canaan, where God gives him the first promise: Your children—the children who don’t exist yet—will inherit this...2024-11-2007 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayera: The God of HagarThere is a script for mothers of sick children. There are imperatives: do everything. Seek a second opinion, and a third, and a fourth. Learn to sleep sitting up. Show up to doctors appointments prepared with a binder the size of a local phonebook. Ask every question, pursue every option.And never, ever give up.2024-11-1306 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Lekh Lekha: The Heir Who Might Have BeenIt’s possible that if things had been different, if things had gone as planned, that Yishmael, Avraham’s half-Egyptian son of a slave, might have been our ancestor instead of Yitzhak.2024-11-0609 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Noah: Surviving the FloodWe ask the wrong questions about the story of the Flood.We ask how God could do such a thing. We ask how a God who is good could destroy a world. We ask how a just God could ignore the difference between perpetrator and victim in His zeal to wipe the world clean. We ask how a loving God could abandon His creation.The right question, for anyone who knows the names Auschwitz, Treblinka, or Babi Yar is not how God could have done such a thing. The right question for those who remember...2024-10-3006 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler on Parashat Bereishit: Home, Exile, and How to Wander TogetherHuman beings don’t have to be told that we are living outside of paradise. It’s not just the fact that the world is not perfect: it’s that deep inside many of us, we feel a longing for a place that might be. Within each of us there is a longing for a home we have never fully found.Midrashically, this human experience of exile begins almost immediately, on the eighth day of creation, immediately after the first Shabbat.2024-10-2208 minTa ShmaR. Leah Sarna and R. Tali Adler: The Torah of PregnancyFrom one perspective, pregnancy is a miracle. But from another, pregnancy is a nightmare. In her essay that won the Ateret Zvi Prize in Hiddushei Torah, Rabbanit Leah Sarna argues that the Jewish tradition makes space for both of these stories about pregnancy. This presentation and conversation with Rabbi Tali Adler is from February 2024.2024-03-1152 min
Notre Haggadah - Récits de femmesL'Épisode Particulier 4 - La bonne et la mauvaise féministe juive🌊Aujourd’hui je vous propose un intermède, le quatrième de la série🌊🎙️Après avoir entendue Tali, Camille et Mira, 🤟🏻Et après tous vos retours, j’ai créé cet épisode comme un écho à ce qui a été dit par mes invitées, et comme les coulisses du podcast. Je vous y livre mes réflexions, et quelques ressources utiles. ❓Les épisodes particuliers, ce sont des épisodes qui font la part belle aux questions, pour ouvrir vers de nouvelles façons d’imaginer et par là...2024-01-1124 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler: Challenging the EstablishmentIn the last of this series from Spring 2023, Rav Tali returns to R. Yehudah ha-Nasi and his interactions with another friend/antagonist: Bar Kappara. In what ways does Bar Kappara try to teach Rabbi the Torah he thinks he needs to hear? How can someone without power teach someone who has power? Download the source sheet here: https://mechonhadar.s3.amazonaws.com/mh_torah_source_sheets/Adler2023TorahBelong3.pdf2024-01-0852 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler: Inside / OutsidePart 2 this series from Spring 2023 centers the character of Rabbi, also known as R. Yehudah ha-Nasi, the leader of his generation. Rabbi is concerned lest the Torah get beyond his control and be misunderstood. His student and friend, R. Hiyya, on the other hand, thinks the Torah should be heard far and wide. What happens when these two rabbis come into conflict? Where does the Torah belong? Download the source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.amazonaws.com/mh_torah_source_sheets/Adler2023TorahBelong2.pdf2024-01-0149 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler: When Your Torah Doesn't BelongIn this first lecture in a series of 3 taught in Spring 2023 (Who Does Torah Belong To?), Rav Tali Adler explores the character of R. Elazar ben Arakh and why his colleagues couldn't understand what he taught. What can we do if we feel like the world is not ready for what we have to teach?Download the source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.amazonaws.com/mh_torah_source_sheets/Adler2023TorahBelong1.pdf2023-12-2555 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler: Sacrifice - What It Is, What It Could Be, Why It MattersAkeidat Yitzhak, the Torah reading for the second day of Rosh Hashanah, is usually seen as the ultimate Jewish model of personal sacrifice. But is willingness to die for God really the epitome of sacrifice? In this session, R. Tali Adler explores a midrash that questions Akeidat Yitzhak's role as the central model of personal sacrifice, and offers a story about Rachel our Matriarch as an alternative.2023-09-111h 02Ta ShmaR. Tali Adler: The Hidden Destruction of ShilohBefore the destruction of the first and second temples, Shiloh was destroyed. Discussed in Yirmiyahu and alluded to in Shmuel, Shiloh is the spiritual center that we often overlook in Jewish history, and whose destruction and its lessons we too often forget. How can Shiloh's destruction inform what we mourn for today? Recorded at Tisha B'Av 2022.2023-07-1054 min
Jewish Ideas to Change the WorldCrying with God: Suffering and Divinity in the Thought of the Aish KodeshA virtual event presentation by Rabbi Tali AdlerAbout the Event:What did it look like to find God in the Warsaw Ghetto? How did one man make sense of the deepest human suffering while locating himself uncompromisingly within Jewish tradition? Join us as we study the Aish Kodesh, the Piacezna Rebbe’s weekly sermons delivered each Shabbat in the Warsaw Ghetto, and attempt to uncover how his Torah might help us make sense of our lives today.About the Speaker:Rabbi Tali Adler is a member of th...2023-06-2655 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler and Joey Weisenberg: Elevating God and UsRabbi Tali Adler teaches a beautiful combination of midrashim about the lulav and etrog—which completely rethinks our relationship with God and God’s relationship with us. Before and after, Joey Weisenberg plays one of his original compositions. Recorded in Summer 2020 as part of a course "Melody and Midrash."2023-01-3029 minTa ShmaR. Yitz Greenberg: The Triumph of Life, Part 3In the final part of this lecture series, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg speaks with Rabbi Tali Adler about how we can maximize the potential for life in our everyday actions. This lecture was originally recorded in Winter 2022 as part of a series in partnership with Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, DC.2022-07-251h 07Ta ShmaR. Tali Adler: Words That Cannot Be WrittenIt's easy to emphasize the giving of the written Torah at Mt. Sinai. But what if the focus should be on Oral Torah? R. Tali Adler looks at the essential role oral Torah plays as a part of the covenant between God and the Jewish people.2022-06-0748 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler: Murder in a Midrashic KeyIn the Bible, where characters are generally multifaceted, the first murderer in the Bible, is a notable exception -- until we consider the world of midrash. R. Tali Adler teaches about Kayin through the lens of midrash and discusses how this character might serve as a surprising religious role model. This lecture was originally delivered as part of Hadar's Summer Learning Retreat in June 2021.2021-12-1439 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler: The Torah of Reopening Part 3 In this episode, Rav Tali dives into the overall picture of what returning and rebuilding will look like in the communal spaces in our lives. What might it look like to return to institutions that we left behind? To the shuls and workplaces and schools? Rav Tali explores the return of the Jewish people from the Babylonian exile and draws comparisons to our experience today.2021-11-0151 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler: The Torah of Reopening Part 2 In this episode, Rav Tali delves into the experience of the messy emotions of reuniting with loved ones after the pandemic. Times of extended separation can change the nature of a relationship and Rav Tali offers tools to navigate the changes. Rav Tali makes space in this talk for some of the more difficult emotions.2021-11-0145 minTa ShmaR. Tali Adler: The Torah of Reopening Part 1 In the spring of 2021, as many Covid-19 restrictions were lifted and more people began re-entering their social worlds, R. Tali Adler gave Hadar’s Spring Lecture Series on the “Torah of Reopening.” In this episode, Rav Tali addresses the oh-so-complicated array of emotions that arise as we explore re-engaging with the world, dealing in particular with “fear before we open the door.” Rav Tali’s wisdom will help you reflect and feel inspired and we hope you enjoy this episode.2021-11-0153 min
Beyond the BottomlineIsrael – Women Entrepreneurs Around the World with The Girls on the RoadVisiting Israel, Fernanda and Taci discuss their discoveries about the options and challenges open to women entrepreneurs setting up their businesses there.
Join us today hearing from ‘The Girls on the Road’ in their quest to support women entrepreneurs around the world. Fernanda and Taciana are visiting 24 countries interviewing women and researching the conditions, business ecosystems, challenges and advantages that exist in each country.
They also have a book and a documentary about their trip and discoveries already out.
The Girls on the Road interviewed these dynamic women entrepreneurs:
Alia...2020-07-1513 min
Mechon Hadar Online LearningBetween the Difficult and the Impossible: Discovering The Heart of TorahTali Adler, Shai Held. Join us as we celebrate Rabbi Shai Held's widely acclaimed new book, The Heart of Torah: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion with a festive book launch featuring shiurim by prominent Jewish leaders and thinkers. Listen to Rabbi Held's keynote lecture here, with an introduction by Tali Adler.2017-09-1335 min